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Chesapeake Bay Conservation
Updated
08/08/2008
Chesapeake Bay Farm Bill Listening Session July 14
On July 14, the Natural Resources Conservation Service held a public
listening session in Annapolis, Maryland, on the Chesapeake Bay provisions of
the 2008 Farm Bill.
Meeting Transcript
Brief summary of
meeting (New York State NRCS Web Site)
Original Meeting Announcement
NRCS News Release: USDA-NRCS Provides $5 Million in Conservation Innovation
Grants to Protect Water Quality in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed
The
Chesapeake Bay Watershed is the largest estuary in North America and encompasses
part of
six states: New York, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Delaware, Virginia and West
Virginia. Agriculture and non-federal forested lands account for more than half of the land use in the Bay
watershed.
NRCS provides technical assistance to farmers in the Chesapeake Bay watershed to
plan and apply conservation practices to improve water quality, restore
wetlands, and enhance wildlife habitat. Financial assistance is provided
through Farm Bill programs to help implement these practices.
Agriculture has
been doing its part to improve natural resource conditions in the Bay watershed. Farmers are planting stream buffers for
cleaner water, fencing cattle out of streams, properly managing manure, and
installing other conservation practices.
For more information on conservation in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed:
Delaware
New York
Virginia
Maryland
West Virginia
Pennsylvania
Links:
USDA-NRCS Provides $5 Million in
Conservation Innovation Grants to Protect Water Quality in the Chesapeake Bay
Watershed
These items require
Adobe Acrobat
Conserving Natural Resources in the Chesapeake Bay: NRCS 2007 Conservation
Activities (PDF; 535KB)
Chesapeake Bay and Agriculture Conservation Resource Brief (PDF; 787KB)
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