{"id":25809,"date":"2023-11-03T14:19:19","date_gmt":"2023-11-03T14:19:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/?p=25809"},"modified":"2023-11-03T14:19:51","modified_gmt":"2023-11-03T14:19:51","slug":"montgomery-county-conservation-district-holds-native-meadow-and-riparian-buffer-showcase","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/?p=25809","title":{"rendered":"Montgomery County Conservation District Holds Native Meadow and Riparian Buffer Showcase"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_25810\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/pacd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/MontogmeryWorkshop.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-25810\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-25810\" src=\"http:\/\/pacd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/MontogmeryWorkshop-300x152.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"152\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pacd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/MontogmeryWorkshop-300x152.jpg 300w, https:\/\/pacd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/MontogmeryWorkshop-768x390.jpg 768w, https:\/\/pacd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/MontogmeryWorkshop.jpg 799w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-25810\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo of riparian planting provided by MCCD.<\/p><\/div>\r\n\r\n<p>On Friday, September 22, 2023, in partnership with <a href=\"https:\/\/varietyphila.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Variety \u2013 the Children&#8217;s Charity of the Delaware Valley<\/a>,\u00a0Montgomery County Conservation District (MCCD) held a \u201cNative Meadow and Riparian Buffer Showcase.\u201d This event toured and described a native meadow and two riparian plantings installed on the Variety campus. The benefits, steps to installation, maintenance requirements, funding, and other project details were discussed.<\/p>\r\n<p>The meadow planting was completed as a demonstration through a partnership between MCCD, USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service, Penn State Extension, and Variety \u2013 the Children\u2019s Charity of the Delaware Valley.<\/p>\r\n<p>The riparian plantings were completed through funding from the TreeVitalize Watersheds (now &#8220;Trees for Watersheds&#8221;) grant program. The partnership between MCCD and Variety \u2013 the Children\u2019s Charity of the Delaware Valley has been ongoing since 2019, with the meadow planting in Fall 2019 and riparian plantings installed in Fall 2020 and Fall 2021. There were approximately 40 people in attendance at the event, coming from many organizations and groups, but all coming together in their interest in environmental conservation projects.<\/p>\r\n<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/pacd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/epa_logo-2-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-24845 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/pacd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/epa_logo-2-2-275x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"68\" height=\"75\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pacd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/epa_logo-2-2-275x300.jpg 275w, https:\/\/pacd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/epa_logo-2-2.jpg 336w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 68px) 100vw, 68px\" \/><\/a>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 U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Friday, September 22, 2023, in partnership with Variety \u2013 the Children&#8217;s Charity of the Delaware Valley,\u00a0Montgomery County Conservation District (MCCD) held a \u201cNative Meadow and Riparian Buffer Showcase.\u201d This event toured and described a native meadow and two riparian plantings installed on the Variety campus. The benefits, steps to installation, maintenance requirements, funding, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,16,36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conservation-district-project-spotlight","category-mini-grant","category-nonpoint-source"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25809","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=25809"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25809\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}