{"id":26127,"date":"2024-05-03T14:54:45","date_gmt":"2024-05-03T14:54:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/?p=26127"},"modified":"2024-05-03T14:54:45","modified_gmt":"2024-05-03T14:54:45","slug":"monroe-county-conservation-district-holds-buffer-workshop-and-tree-planting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/?p=26127","title":{"rendered":"Monroe County Conservation District Holds Buffer Workshop and Tree Planting"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_26128\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-26128\" class=\"wp-image-26128 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/pacd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/MonroePlanting-300x225.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pacd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/MonroePlanting-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/pacd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/MonroePlanting-1024x768.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/pacd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/MonroePlanting-768x576.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/pacd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/MonroePlanting-1536x1152.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/pacd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/MonroePlanting.jpeg 1567w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-26128\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">David Hooker (center) with Monroe County Conservation District demonstrates how to properly plant a tree, including the need to free up the outer roots when removing a tree from the container to prevent the tree from becoming root bound. Photo provided by MCCD.<\/p><\/div>\r\n\r\n<p>On April 13, 2024, the Monroe County Conservation District held a riparian buffer workshop and tree planting at Cherry Valley National Wildlife Refuge in Stroudsburg, PA. Fifty-four people attended the event.<\/p>\r\n<p>The event included hands-on conservation, such as tree planting, and a presentation on how attendees can protect water quality. The participants also toured the site to learn about previous restoration efforts and how they are working to protect the county&#8217;s water resources.<\/p>\r\n<p>The project was funded by the PACD Nonpoint Source Pollution Prevention Educational Mini-grant Program.<\/p>\r\n<p><em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-24933 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/pacd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/epa_logo-2-275x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"87\" height=\"95\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pacd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/epa_logo-2-275x300.jpg 275w, https:\/\/pacd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/epa_logo-2.jpg 336w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 87px) 100vw, 87px\" \/>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 April 13, 2024, the Monroe County Conservation District held a riparian buffer workshop and tree planting at Cherry Valley National Wildlife Refuge in Stroudsburg, PA. Fifty-four people attended the event. The event included hands-on conservation, such as tree planting, and a presentation on how attendees can protect water quality. The participants also toured the [&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-26127","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\/26127","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=26127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26127\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}