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Project Clean Stream Kick Off Events!

This past Friday, April 1st marked the official kick-off of our 18th annual Project Clean Stream (PCS) season! Every year PCS brings together thousands of volunteers to pick up trash from local streams, creeks, rivers, parks, and neighborhoods throughout the Chesapeake watershed.

So far in April, we have over 50 events registered and 18 of those happened this past weekend with four of them hosted by Alliance staff at each one of our regional offices!

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Welcome New Alliance Staff Members

Over the last few months, there have been some additions here on the Alliance team. It is with great excitement that we announce three new staff members! Read on to learn more about each of these passionate new employees and hear how they will help us increase our impact!

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How to Care for Your Garden This Spring

Spring is in the air! Read the latest tips and tricks for prepping your garden for the growing season.

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Keep it Wild(er): A 5-Year Old With a Mission to Keep the Wild, Wild

My name is Wilder, I am a five year old from Monkton, Maryland. I have a unique name and find ways of living up to my name daily. With this, I am one who loves adventuring outside. I have been hiking with my parents since I was born, biking since I could sit on a Strider Bike, and started camping when I was four. I have always loved the outdoors and love being immersed in it. I have loved the outdoors so much that I wanted to create my own business, in 2021 Keep it Wild(er) was created.

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Building Bonds Through Project Clean Stream

This spring will be my last time coordinating Project Clean Stream as I take on new responsibilities in our communications department. I wish it were possible to shake the hand of each of the volunteers and site captains and tell them how they helped form my own sense of community.  My time has with them has shown me the importance of getting your loved ones,  your community, and even strangers to form lasting relationships by, of all things,  picking up trash.

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EPA National, Regional Officials Touring PA Dairy Farms to Highlight Clean Water, Climate, and Farm Benefits of Corporate Partnerships

Today, officials from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and representatives from the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation (NFWF), and the Alliance for the Chesapeake Bay (Alliance) are in the field meeting with dairy farmers in Pennsylvania and key corporate partners to discuss collaborative efforts that support local dairy farmers by promoting healthy farms, clean water, and other environmental benefits.

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Maintenance: Easy, Accessible, and Funded!

The Alliance is excited to launch a new project, Maintaining Best Management Practices in the Anacostia Watershed, to increase the functionality of green infrastructure practices for healthier lands and water and to promote workforce development opportunities, particularly within overburdened and under-resourced communities. 

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Girls Who Hike Virginia

Girls Who Hike Virginia is more than just a Facebook group; it’s a community of like-minded women who can connect, network, and discover Virginia parks and trails together. This group is a safe place for women – making the group female only. What started as an interest turned into a 13,000 person Facebook group, now …

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The White Weasels of Winter

Weasels are some of the few mammals that turn white during the winter. These small, but highly-skilled predators can be found throughout the Chesapeake Bay watershed and once had a significant role in the fur trade during European colonization of North America.

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Volunteer Opportunity: PA Spring Tree Plantings

Our Pennsylvania Forests Team is seeking volunteers to help plant nearly 5,000 trees across the Commonwealth this spring!

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