Local Action Video Showcase Sponsored By Alliance For Chesapeake Bay. Are you doing your part to help your local river, stream, or the Chesapeake Bay in your community? Is your local watershed group, school group, community or municipality restoring a shoreline, replacing a parking lot with porous pavement, planting rain gardens, holding cleanups or doing other restoration work to protect your local waterways?
Grab your camera and send us a short video that shows what you’re doing in your community to help your local waterway or the Chesapeake Bay. We’ll use all the video submissions to create a collective video that highlights all the local work being done throughout the Bay watershed – from New York to Virginia, West Virginia to Delaware – to restore and protect the Bay and its many streams, creeks and rivers.
Entries are due May 14. Click here for submission rules.

Green City, Clean Waters Philadelphia has chosen to implement an innovative "urban greening" and a "green before gray" as a fundamental strategy for meeting the requirements of the federal Clean Water Act to manage its stormwater and improve water quality. From GreenTreks Network on Vimeo.

2010 River Sojourns Set. Eleven river sojourns are planned around the state from May through August 2010. These multi-day educational paddling trips offer an unparalleled experience on Pennsylvania’s premier waterways. This video from the 2009 Delaware Sojourn offers a glimpse of one of these voyages. Sign-up now through the PA Organization for Watersheds and Rivers Sojourn webpage.

House Members, Groups Opposed To Natural Gas Leasing In State Forests. Members of the House, environmental and sportsmen's groups this week urged Gov. Rendell to drop his plan to lease more State Forest land for Marcellus Shale natural gas drilling to help balance the budget. Instead, the groups urged adoption of a natural gas production severance tax.
This video features Rep. David Levdansky (D-Allegheny) Majority Chair of the House Finance Committee.
Legislators present included Representatives Brendan Boyle (D-Philadelphia), Paul Drucker (D-Chester), Bob Freeman (D-Northampton) Majority Chair of the House Local Government Committee, Mike Hanna (D-Centre) Majority Chair of the House Agriculture and Rural Affairs Committee, Kate Harper (R-Montgomery), Tom Houghton (D-Chester), David Levdansky (D-Allegheny) Majority Chair of the House Finance Committee, Tony Payton (D-Philadelphia), Steven Santarsiero (D-Bucks), Tim Seip (D-Schuylkill), John Siptroth (D-Monroe), and Greg Vitali (D-Delaware).
Groups included: David Maser, PennEnvironment, Jan Jarrett, PennFuture, Pennsylvania League of Women Voters, PA Land Trust Association, Jeff Souders, PA Federation of Sportsmen's Clubs, Curt Ashenfelter, Keystone Trails Association
Watch other videos from the press conference--
Rep. Kate Harper (R-Montgomery)
Jan Jarrett, PennFuture
Jeff Schmidt, Sierra Club
Curt Ashenfelter, Keystone Trails Association
Jeff Souders, PA Federation of Sportsmen's Clubs

CREP Program Promotes Forested Buffers. David Wise, PA Watershed Restoration Manager with the Chesapeake Bay Foundation, talks about the value of forested stream buffers and how the Conservation Reserve Enhancement Program can pay for 100 percent of the cost of installing buffers and pay an annual rental payment. Farmers and any landowner can participate in the CREP Program and install a buffer.