May 16, 2024
Penn State is seeking more than 100 Pennsylvania dairy farms to receive assistance in planning and implementing practices that reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
March 5, 2024
Climate change profoundly impacts farmers, introducing challenges such as erratic weather patterns, shorter growing seasons, extreme temperatures, and heightened pest and disease pressure.
October 27, 2023
To accelerate conservation and reduce water pollution, a Penn State team composed of outreach staff and extension educators will build upon existing partnerships with organizations in the lower Susquehanna River basin. The watershed is plagued by runoff of nutrients such as nitrogen and phosphorus from agriculture.
March 15, 2022
If you're a farm operator in 14 central Pennsylvania counties, you now have a chance to highlight what steps you have taken to protect and enhance water quality for your local streams and the Chesapeake Bay. Several agricultural and governmental organizations have partnered to develop a survey, found at https://farm-bmp.psu.edu, that asks producers in Bedford, Centre, Columbia, Cumberland, Dauphin, Huntingdon, Juniata, Lebanon, Lycoming, Mifflin, Northumberland, Perry, Snyder and Tioga counties to document conservation practices they have adopted to promote water quality and soil health in the bay watershed.
June 28, 2021
Ryan Davis took a break, setting down his tools where he worked Friday morning on the grassy banks of a Manheim Township stream that cuts through Overlook Park. There, he pointed to colleagues equipped with shovels and augers they used to dig holes that would soon be planted with hundreds of shrubs and trees.
June 3, 2021
In May 2021, the Lancaster Clean Water Partners Action Teams came together for the first time ever to plant 2.5 acres of riparian forest buffer at Overlook Park in Manheim Township.
February 28, 2021
As Dellinger Run wends its way toward Chiques Creek, it stretches through 56 acres of farmland in Rapho Township, where owner Mark Heller enjoys watching the ducks and fish that swim in the stream.
February 28, 2021
A million-dollar grant from the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation will pay the total costs of riparian buffers and other conservation practices on farms in three contiguous watersheds in Pennsylvania’s Lancaster, Lebanon and Dauphin counties.
February 23, 2021
Conservation Calluses as Silver Linings to a COVID Year: How conservation professionals pivoted to meet the needs of 2020 and strengthen plans for 2021
February 23, 2021
A diverse set of agriculture and conservation partners has launched a project in the Chiques, Conoy and Conewago watersheds in Lancaster, Dauphin and Lebanon counties to provide sampling and data collection, outreach, technical assistance, and funding assistance to interested farmers.
May 4, 2018
Learn more about the Keystone 10 Million Trees Partnership - an initiative of the Chesapeake Bay Foundation.
May 4, 2018
Nutrient pollution of water has often been described is a “wicked” problem, one that involves a complex, multidisciplinary approach to problem solving.
May 4, 2018
Kristen Kyler, the first two conservation professionals in Pennsylvania to be certified as a conservation landscape professional trainer under the new Chesapeake Bay Landscape Professionals (CBLP) certification program.
May 4, 2018
The Agriculture and Environment Center welcomes four Environmental Resource Management students as full time interns this summer, Sean Bernheisel, Bill Ryan, Ryan Hill and Craig Zemitis.
May 4, 2018
AEC student interns conducted a homeowner's stormwater workshop in Bellefonte, PA.
May 4, 2018
Volunteers planted 400 trees along the Swatara Creek.
May 4, 2018
Manheim Central high school students and their agriculture education instructor explored the health of their local stream.
May 4, 2018
Spend time with Mom and help Mother Earth!
May 4, 2018
Improve Water Quality with REAP Tax Credits
May 4, 2018
The Choose Clean Water Conference is coming to Lancaster, Pennsylvania this month.
February 5, 2018
The Penn State Agriculture and Environment Center is inviting all Pennsylvania agricultural conservation providers that offer student internships to fill out a survey about those opportunities.
November 17, 2017
The AEC and its Chiques Creek partners help horse owners meet their conservation goals.
November 17, 2017
Over 70 attended a Chesapeake Stormwater Summit on October 27 which highlighted Penn State research exploring the barriers to greater adoption of green infrastructure approaches to stormwater management, and discussed recommendations for overcoming them.
November 17, 2017
Penn State Extension’s Master Watershed Stewards Program came to York County in 2016 and is educating, training and activating citizens to help meet the county’s clean water goals.
November 17, 2017
The AEC brought on board three new interns for the fall semester. Meet Sean, Bill, and Aidan.
November 17, 2017
From Lititz to Hershey, Greening the Lower Susquehanna volunteers planted hundreds of trees this fall to help improve water quality in priority watersheds in the Lower Susquehanna region.
November 17, 2017
A two day conference last month focused on the foundation for healthy ecosystems and agricultural production: soil health.
November 17, 2017
The Center for Watershed Protection and Ecosystem Planning & Restoration is offering a training on stream restoration.
November 17, 2017
As we finish with fall harvest and head into the holiday season and early winter, Penn State Extension is offering many workshops events for producers.
August 24, 2017
The Agriculture and Environment Center has an opening for a paid internship for enrolled students for Fall 2017 Semester.
