Conserving Chesapeake Forests

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Pass the Golden Shovel for this Year’s Tree Planting Relay

Join the Alliance as we host back-to-back tree plantings in a relay-style event to get thousands of trees in the ground in just one day!

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Rhododendron leaves exhibiting thermonasty in a deciduous forest with snow on the ground.

What’s Poppin’? Phenological Fun: Rhododendron

You may have noticed on a particularly cold winter hike that rhododendron also seems to huddle up for warmth.

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Thank You to Our 2024 Volunteers!

Our volunteers’ hard work has a lasting impact improving the ecosystem, health, and beauty of the watershed, and their time and dedication has made this effort a success. We could not have done it without them!

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“Tree Talk” Turns Six This Year!

Happy sixth birthday to our plant identification YouTube series, Tree Talk! It’s hard to believe so much time has passed since the series began, and we’re honored to have taught so many people about so many species!

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Loysville Youth Development Center and the Alliance for the Chesapeake Bay are partnering to reforest the Chesapeake Bay Watershed in Pennsylvania

Beginning in the Summer of 2024, an exciting partnership flourished between Loysville Youth Development Center (LYDC) and the Alliance for the Chesapeake Bay.

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What’s Poppin’? Phenological Fun: Virgin-Bower’s

This December, as you drive across the deciduous landscape, be on the lookout for virgin-bower’s (Clematis virginiana) achenes.

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The Alliance Plants Its 1,000th Acre of Forest Buffer in Pennsylvania!

The Alliance’s PA Riparian Forest Buffer Project planted its 1,000th acre! Join us as we reflect on the last six years of upstream work for clean water and healthy forests.

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Preventing the Apocalypse with the American Carrion Beetle

Detritivores, such as the native American carrion beetle, ensure the dead return to the earth.

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Close up view of 5 red osier dogwood's white berries with a black dot in the center surrounded by green leaves that are turning red in the Fall.

What’s Peepin’? Spook-tacular Fun: Red Osier Dogwood

Did you know, red osier dogwood berries have a spook-tacular resemblance to eyes?

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4,000+ Trees For Pennsylvania this Fall

Come get your hands dirty and join in on the reforestation effort for Pennsylvania’s streams! We have over 4,000 trees to plant – all we need is you!

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