{"id":20704,"date":"2020-05-15T13:39:50","date_gmt":"2020-05-15T13:39:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pacd.org\/?p=20704"},"modified":"2020-05-15T13:39:50","modified_gmt":"2020-05-15T13:39:50","slug":"mckean-county-conservation-district-holds-series-of-workshops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/?p=20704","title":{"rendered":"McKean County Conservation District Holds Series of Workshops"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pacd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/McKeanCollagesmaller.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-20705\" width=\"423\" height=\"423\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pacd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/McKeanCollagesmaller.jpg 576w, https:\/\/pacd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/McKeanCollagesmaller-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/pacd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/McKeanCollagesmaller-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 423px) 100vw, 423px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Beginning in April 2019, the McKean County Conservation District held a series of workshops for their 2019-20 Nonpoint Source Pollution Prevention Mini-grant project, \u201cPromoting Healthy Watersheds.\u201d The district held ten workshops, reaching 206 people. The workshops included a best management practices conservation tour, erosion control in our forests, a winter farmers meeting, a backyard conservation series, and an invasive plant workshop and field day.<\/p>\n<p>The district achieved its goal of educating attendees on pollution prevention. The district demonstrated erosion and sedimentation control, rain gardens and infiltration areas, using native plants in riparian areas, and rain barrels.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pacd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/epa_logo-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-19301\" width=\"120\" height=\"131\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pacd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/epa_logo-2.jpg 336w, https:\/\/pacd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/epa_logo-2-275x300.jpg 275w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 120px) 100vw, 120px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Financial and other support for this project is provided by the Pennsylvania Association of Conservation Districts, Inc. through a grant from the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection under Section 319 of the Clean Water Act, administered by the US Environmental Protection Agency.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beginning in April 2019, the McKean County Conservation District held a series of workshops for their 2019-20 Nonpoint Source Pollution Prevention Mini-grant project, \u201cPromoting Healthy Watersheds.\u201d The district held ten workshops, reaching 206 people. The workshops included a best management practices conservation tour, erosion control in our forests, a winter farmers meeting, a backyard conservation [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conservation-district-project-spotlight","category-mini-grant"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20704","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=20704"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20704\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}