LeDon Young, Progress Grange Master, Hosts REAP Town Meeting in Centre Hall, PA April 26 to talk about the Resource Enhancement and Protection Act (REAP) proposal to give tax credits to farmers who install conservation practices. Comments from other speakers can be found at: Rep. Stern Describes Background, Need for REAP Gary Swan, PA Farm Bureau, Talks About PFB Support for REAP Matthew Ehrhart, CBF, Urges Citizens To Make Their Voice Heard For more information, visit the CBF REAP webpage. Visit the Progress Grange Fair website.

Rep. Stern Describes Background, Need for REAP, the Resource Enhancement and Protection Act proposal to give tax credits to farmers who install conservation practices at an April 26 town meeting at the Progress Grange in Centre Hall, PA Comments from other speakers can be found at: LeDon Young, Progress Grange Master Hosts REAP Town Meeting Gary Swan, PA Farm Bureau, Talks About PFB Support for REAP Matthew Ehrhart, CBF, Urges Citizens To Make Their Voice Heard For more information, visit the CBF REAP webpage.

Gary Swan, PA Farm Bureau, Talks About PFB Support for REAP, the Resource Enhancement and Protection Act proposal to give tax credits to farmers who install conservation practices at an April 26 town meeting at the Progress Grange in Centre Hall, PA Comments from other speakers can be found at: LeDon Young, Progress Grange Master Hosts REAP Town Meeting Rep. Stern Describes Background, Need for REAP Matthew Ehrhart, CBF, Urges Citizens To Make Their Voice Heard For more information, visit the CBF REAP webpage.

Matthew Ehrhart, CBF, Urges Citizen Action on REAP, the Resource Enhancement and Protection Act proposal to give tax credits to farmers who install conservation practices at an April 26 town meeting at the Progress Grange in Centre Hall, PA Comments from other speakers can be found at: LeDon Young, Progress Grange Master Hosts REAP Town Meeting Rep. Stern Describes Background, Need for REAP Gary Swan, PA Farm Bureau, Talks About PFB Support for REAP For more information, visit the CBF REAP webpage.

Tom Ridge Environmental Center Tour. Eric Obert, Associate Director of the PA Sea Grant Program, takes us on a tour of the Tom Ridge Environmental Center which sits at the entrance of Presque Isle State Park in Erie. The Center serves as the gateway to the park, environmental education center, park office and home several state agency offices, nonprofit environmental groups and the Regional Science Consortium which does active research on environmental issues in the region. It also houses a I-Max Theater. Visit this unique educational resource that connects Pennsylvanians to the Great Lakes and one of the richest natural treasures – Presque Isle Peninsula. For more information, visit: Tom Ridge Environmental Center website.

Roadside Recycling, PennDOT, Meadville. Since 2002, art students from Allegheny College and employees of the Department of Transportation in Meadville have creatively recycled discarded highway signs into large flowers and decorated fences surrounding the PennDOT maintenance office along Rt. 322 in Meadville. For more information, visit: Allegheny College website.

Jim Haney, PA Senior Environment Corps Volunteer helps celebrate the 10th anniversary of the PA Senior Environment Corps by presenting the history and present projects of the Capital Area Senior Environment Corps. For more information, visit: PA Senior Environment Corps webpage. Celebrate the 10th anniversary of the PA Senior Environment Corps

Counting Macroinvertebretes in the Yellow Breeches. Members of the Capital Area Senior Environment Corps Art Sconing, Velda Kauffman, Carl Crone and Harvey Baney explain how they count macroinvertebretes to help determine the stream's overall ability to support aquatic life. They take the counts in the Yellow Breeches at the New Cumberland Borough Park in Cumberland County. The same crew shows how they do water quality testing on a different stretch of the Yellow Breeches. For more information, visit: PA Senior Environment Corps webpage. View these other Video Blog stories on the Senior Environment Corps— Water Quality Sampling on the Yellow Breeches Lab Tour – Senior Environment Corps Senior Environment Corps Volunteers Share Their Experiences Celebrate the 10th anniversary of the PA Senior Environment Corps

Water Quality Sampling on the Yellow Breeches. Members of the Capital Area Senior Environment Corps do water quality sampling on the Yellow Breeches in Cumberland County. Art Sconing, Velda Kauffman, Carl Crone and Harvey Baney explain how they do dissolved oxygen, phosphates, pH, temperature and other water quality testing at this location on the Yellow Breeches. At a separate location, the same team will show how they do macroinvertebrete counts to help determine the stream’s overall ability to support aquatic life. For more information, visit: PA Senior Environment Corps webpage. View these other Video Blog stories on the Senior Environment Corps— Counting Macroinvertebretes in the Yellow Breeches Lab Tour – Senior Environment Corps Senior Environment Corps Volunteers Share Their Experiences Celebrate the 10th anniversary of the PA Senior Environment Corps

Too Many Deer Damaging Forest Ecosystems, Agriculture. Dr. Timothy Schaeffer, Executive Director of Audubon Pennsylvania, a state office of the National Audubon Society, offers comments before the Senate Agriculture and Rural Affairs Committee at a "listening session" in Lebanon, PA. The over-browsing of Pennsylvania’s forests and agricultural areas by too many deer in too many places has eliminated thousands of acres of habitat for birds and other wildlife, and represents the largest single threat to bird habitat, after urban sprawl. A study released in March by the Department of Conservation and Natural Resources showed fewer than 25 percent of the 41,650 forest plots they looked at across the state showed desirable forest regeneration and almost 45 percent lacked any new, woody growth. In the Lebanon area—the Conrad Weiser Forest District—the results are even worse. 59 percent of the 1,126 forest plots surveyed showed no forest regeneration and 28 percent showed regeneration with undesirable species. A copy of the comments and recommendations submitted by Dr. Schaeffer to the Committee is available online. For more information on the deer management issue, visit Audubon PA's website.

Senior Environment Corps Volunteers Share Their Experiences. Volunteers for the Capital Area Senior Environment Corps in Cumberland County tell how they got involved in water sampling and the SEC and why they keep going out week after week! The volunteers include: Velda Kauffman, Carl Crone, Harvey Baney and Art Sconing. For more information, visit: PA Senior Environment Corps webpage. View these other Video Blog stories on the Senior Environment Corps— Water Quality Sampling on the Yellow Breeches Counting Macroinvertebrets in the Yellow Breeches Lab Tour – Senior Environment Corps Celebrate the 10th anniversary of the PA Senior Environment Corps

Lab Tour - Senior Environment Corps. The Capital Area Senior Environment Corps volunteers maintain a water quality testing laboratory in the New Cumberland Borough Senior Center in Cumberland County. Volunteers Art Sconing, Harvey Baney, Carl Crone and Velda Kauffman take us on a tour of the lab and show how they test water samples, on this day, taken from the Yellow Breeches Creek. For more information, visit: PA Senior Environment Corps webpage. View these other Video Blog stories on the Senior Environment Corps— Water Quality Sampling on the Yellow Breeches Counting Macroinvertebretes in the Yellow Breeches Senior Environment Corps Volunteers Share Their Experiences Celebrate the 10th anniversary of the PA Senior Environment Corps