{"id":22845,"date":"2021-10-14T16:32:50","date_gmt":"2021-10-14T16:32:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/?p=22845"},"modified":"2021-10-14T16:32:50","modified_gmt":"2021-10-14T16:32:50","slug":"bradford-and-schuylkill-conservation-districts-receive-nfwf-grants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/?p=22845","title":{"rendered":"Bradford and Schuylkill Conservation Districts Receive NFWF Grants"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright size-full is-resized\"><a href=\"http:\/\/pacd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/NFWFBayMap.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pacd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/NFWFBayMap.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-22846\" width=\"228\" height=\"289\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pacd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/NFWFBayMap.jpg 359w, https:\/\/pacd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/NFWFBayMap-237x300.jpg 237w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 228px) 100vw, 228px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>On October 12, 2021, the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, and the federal-state Chesapeake Bay Program partnership announced more than $10 million in grants for projects that will protect and restore the Chesapeake Bay and its surrounding watershed.<\/p>\n<p>Fourteen projects that will benefit Pennsylvania received $3.88 million. The conservation district funded projects are:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>Bradford County Conservation District<\/strong> &#8211; Accelerated Watershed Implementation Plan Development \u2013 II. Grant amount: $49,995. The project aims to accelerate the planning of Bradford County&#8217;s Watershed Implementation Plan in the areas of stream rehabilitation, agricultural management, stream-crossing replacement, and forestry. The project will address water quality impacts in the county by creating designs for stream rehabilitation and crossings, comprehensive nutrient management, riparian buffer installation, and reforestation.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Schuylkill Conservation<\/strong> <strong>District <\/strong>&#8211; Little Mahanoy Creek Headwaters Restoration Plan Development. Grant Amount: $50,000. Develop a detailed watershed restoration plan for the headwaters of Little Mahanoy Creek Watershed. The project will provide a blueprint for managing stormwater in the watershed, restoring habitat in the headwaters, and improving water quality to protect the unimpaired downstream sections where trout reproduce naturally.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nfwf.org\/sites\/default\/files\/2021-10\/NFWF-Chesapeake-20211012-GS.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a> to read about all the projects.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On October 12, 2021, the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, and the federal-state Chesapeake Bay Program partnership announced more than $10 million in grants for projects that will protect and restore the Chesapeake Bay and its surrounding watershed. Fourteen projects that will benefit Pennsylvania received $3.88 million. The conservation district funded [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22845","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=22845"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22845\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}