| This fall, the
Chesapeake Bay Foundation's (CBF) Virginia
Office will begin an innovative pilot
project that will speed the restoration of
riparian buffers and wetlands in the
Chesapeake Bay Watershed.
The" Acorns to Acres" project
will call upon volunteers in the
Tappahannock and Richmond areas to collect
acorns to be used in a specially designed
mechanized planter that will be made
available to a variety of conservation
groups and landowners for
seeding acorns on riparian and wetland
restoration projects.
Funded by a grant from the
National Fish and Wildlife
Foundation (NFWF), " Acorns to Acres" will
help reduce the flow of excess nutrients
from agricultural lands by helping to
increase the acreage of forested stream
buffers and wetlands in
the Bay watershed. .
Also this fall, an "Outreach
Project" will begin with grant funding from
NFWF and the Keith Campbell Foundation for
the Environment. The funding will allow CBF
to increase outreach and technical
assistance to Shenandoah Valley landowners
who want to implement conservation practices
on their farmland. Restoring riparian
buffers, fencing livestock from streams, and
creating wetlands are just some the of the
conservation practices available to farmers
for reducing nutrient inputs to the Bay.
CBF will work with a host of
state, federal, and private partners to
ensure that these efforts are successful.
For more information on these exciting new
endeavors, please contact Ann Jennings at
[email protected], Chesapeake Bay Foundation
Staff. |
