Tell Your Story! NFWF Communications Tool Kit Webinar Date: May 14, 2020 Time: 11:00am-12:00pm NFWF and its Chesapeake Bay Stewardship Fund program partners have created a communications tool kit to help empower our grantees to tell their own story through the use of traditional and social media. Join your fellow CBSF grantees for this hour-long…

Great news for forest buffers and other water quality practices:  The Farm Service Agency has just announced that the Chesapeake is a pilot for CLEAR-30, a new program under the 2018 Farm Bill.  Clean Lakes, Estuaries and Rivers (CLEAR) is a practice devoted to riparian buffers, wildlife habitat buffers or wetland buffers that will remain…

The Pennsylvania Department of Conservation and Natural Resources organized a riparian forest buffer webinar series during the month of April. The PA Association of Conservation Districts and the Department of Environmental Protection recorded each webinar session and have made them available on their Clean Water Academy website.  

The National Fish and Wildlife Foundation has extended its deadlines for the 2020 Small Watershed Grants (SWG) and Pennsylvania Local Government Implementation (PA-LGI) Grants programs in light of continued impacts from the current global health crisis. SWG applications will now be due by April 28th PA-LGI applications will be due April 30th NFWF will continue…

This is a full time position, offering a very competitive salary and excellent fringe benefits package. Please send a resume and cover letter no later than Friday, March 13th, 2020 to: wpcjobs@paconserve.org and list Tree Equity Specialist in the subject line. Western PA Conservancy, in cooperation with Pennsylvania Department of Conservation & Natural Resources (DCNR)…

This meeting concerns every individual and agency both public and private that plants trees for restoration and mitigation purposes in Anne Arundel County. Topics of discussion will include plant selection, availability, sizes, etc. What is working, what isn’t.   If there are other concerns please let us know so we can add it to the agenda….

Friends of the Rappahannock is hiring for a full time River Steward to serve Culpeper, Rappahannock, and Fauquier Counties. Friends of the Rappahannock (FOR) is a 501c3 watershed protection organization based in Fredericksburg, VA. FOR works to be the voice and active force for a healthy and scenic Rappahannock River. We accomplish this through three…

This is a full time position, offering a very competitive salary and excellent fringe benefits package. Please send a resume and cover letter by later than Friday, February 14th, 2020 to: wpcjobs@paconserve.org and list RipForest in the subject line.  For a full description of the job, visit www.waterlandlife.org. Western PA Conservancy, in cooperation with DCNR…

Take a journey back in time and experience the Rappahannock River as Captain John Smith encountered on his maiden voyage up the River. FOR River Steward Capt. Richard Moncure will lead this expedition through a section of the Rappahannock River Valley National Wildlife Refuge and up river to the iconic Fones Cliffs that tower 100 feet…

Join us in Culpeper, Virginia at Old House Vineyards as we release the results of the first ever Upper Rappahannock River Report Card. Funded by the PATH Foundation and Northern Piedmont Community Foundation, this report will expand on the Middle Rappahannock River Report Card released in 2018 and analyzes 12 tributaries to the Rappahannock River…