{"id":19338,"date":"2019-08-02T13:50:49","date_gmt":"2019-08-02T13:50:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pacd.org\/?p=19338"},"modified":"2019-08-02T13:50:49","modified_gmt":"2019-08-02T13:50:49","slug":"secretary-mcdonnell-visits-franklin-county-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/?p=19338","title":{"rendered":"Secretary McDonnell Visits Franklin County Project"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pacd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/FranklinProject1-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-19339\" width=\"299\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pacd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/FranklinProject1-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/pacd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/FranklinProject1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/pacd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/FranklinProject1-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 299px) 100vw, 299px\" \/><figcaption> <em>Franklin County Commissioner Robert Thomas (left) and PA Department of Environmental Protection Secretary Patrick McDonnell listen to Larry Brannaka (right), hydrologist with the PA field office of the US Fish and Wildlife Service. Photo courtesy of the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection.\u00a0<\/em> <\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">PA\nDepartment of Environmental Protection Secretary Patrick McDonnell visited\ncommunity leaders at Lurgan Lions Club Park in Roxbury (Franklin County) to\ndiscuss how Restore Pennsylvania could support stream restoration projects to\nprevent erosion and protect communities across the commonwealth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Staff\nfrom the Franklin County Conservation District and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife\nService outlined their planned project to put in place in-stream stabilization\nstructures and native vegetation to end the erosion. The project would also\ncontribute to Franklin County\u2019s Clean Water Action Plan to help Pennsylvania\nreduce sediment and nutrients in its part of the Chesapeake Bay Watershed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ahs.dep.pa.gov\/NewsRoomPublic\/articleviewer.aspx?id=21723&amp;typeid=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"here (opens in a new tab)\">here<\/a> to read the entire press release. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PA Department of Environmental Protection Secretary Patrick McDonnell visited community leaders at Lurgan Lions Club Park in Roxbury (Franklin County) to discuss how Restore Pennsylvania could support stream restoration projects to prevent erosion and protect communities across the commonwealth. Staff from the Franklin County Conservation District and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service outlined their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conservation-district-project-spotlight"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19338\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}