Kristen Wolf, PA-Department of Environmental Protection's Chesapeake Bay Coordinator, joins Cheryl Burns to talk about the Chesapeake Bay Watershed Implementation Plans, how the current Phase 3 plan differs from previous plans, and the role communities will play in plan development and implementation.

Kristen Wolf; Chesepeake Bay Program, PA-DEP

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Each year Capital RC&D conducts a fall cover crop survey and spring tillage and residue survey in select counties located within the Chesapeake Bay watershed in Pennsylvania. The 2022 spring survey will start soon and revisit counties surveyed during the fall 2021 cover crop survey. Capital RC&D Conservation Podcast host, Cheryl Burns, joined ag technicians Joel Myers and Barry Frantz, who are both retired from USDA-NRCS, to help collect data and spoke with them about their conservation work and the survey itself.

Joel Myers and Barry Frantz, Tillage and Cover Crop Survey Ag Technicians

One of the overlooked groups of conservation professionals in South Central Pennsylvania, are the region's farmers. In this episode of Capital RC&D's Conservation Podcast, host Cheryl Burns, speaks with four farmers, each also a grazier, and who serve as grazing advisors for Capital RC&D's Grazing Advising Program. This includes Ann Basehore Starbard, Donna Foulk, Duane Hertzler, and Titus Martin.

Capital RC&D Grazing Advisors

Katie Hess, Director of the South Mountain Partnership in South Central Pennsylvania, speaks with Cheryl Burns about the programs and projects supported by the partnership, including the new Friends of South Mountain Partnership support system.
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Katie Hess; South Mountain Partnership

In the inaugural episode of Capital RC&D's Conservation Podcast, host Cheryl Burns talks with Anna Yelk, who is the Executive Director of the Central Pennsylvania Conservancy (CPC). Aside from meeting Anna, the episode focuses on how a conservancy works and discussion about some of CPC's current projects.

Kristen Wolf; Chesepeake Bay Program, PA-DEP

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