Conservation District Employee Tom Smith’s Backyard Stormwater Basin Project, Improves Water Quality, Reduces Air Pollution, Reduced Mowing Time & Expense, Improves Habitat & Aesthetics and Benefits Wildlife.

Pennsylvania Association of Conservation Districts (PACD) has announced funding available to landowners to install multi-functional buffers. This grant is on a first come, first served basis and will stay open until June 30, 2021 or until the funds are used up, whichever comes first.  Contact York County Conservation District at 717-840-7430 for more information and to apply.

2018-2021 Multi-functional Riparian Buffer Sub-Grant Program

Thanks to The Izaak Walton League of America  for the

Honor Roll Award presented to

York County Conservation District

In recognition of outstanding work performed in the field of conservation, public information and publicity in keeping with the League’s goals.

AGRICULTURAL PLANNING REIMBURSEMENT PROGRAM

 We have good news: The Agricultural Planning Reimbursement Program is extended for a third year!

This program is open to all agricultural operators/landowners in Pennsylvania’s Chesapeake Bay watershed. Through this program, they can be reimbursed for fees they’ve paid to consultants to create:

• manure management plans
• nutrient management plans
• agricultural erosion and sediment control plans.

Reimbursement funds are available on a first-come, first-served basis. The registration deadline: April 1, 2020.

Information is available on DEP’s website: Click here

THE CONSERVATION DISTRICT IS HIRING AN ENGINEER

The Conservation District has an Opening for a Professional Engineer. Link to the Job Description is below along with link to apply online.

PE Job Description

https://www.governmentjobs.com/careers/yorkcountypa

WATER QUALITY MONITORING

The United States Geological Survey (USGS) owns/operate three existing continuous, real-time water discharge and gauge height stations, one each at the mouths of Conewago Creek, Codorus Creek, and Muddy Creek. Last fall, these three stations were updated  to add continuous, real-time water quality monitoring for the indicator parameters of temperature, specific conductance, dissolved oxygen, pH, and turbidity. This spring, three new gauge station will be installed, one each at Fishing Creek (near Goldsboro), Kreutz Creek (near Wrightsville), and Fishing Creek (near Craley). Additionally, all six stations will have CRT water quality sensors installed to measure nitrogen and phosphorous. Go to Watershed page or click Here.

Congratulations to our own Engineering Tech, Tom Smith, and the Jackson Township municipality for their roles in improving the health of the our local streams and rivers and the Chesapeake Bay Watershed by reducing nutrient and sediment levels. Click on pictures to read them.

Join local women farmers and landowners who want to protect their land and embrace conservation at this upcoming 2-day workshop. See the flyer for more information & registration details.

According to American Farmland Trust (AFT), “Statistics don’t lie. The future of agriculture is increasingly female.”

There are now nearly one million women farm operators and over half-a-million additional women landowners who lease their land to farmers. Many of these women have a strong conservation ethic and are deeply committed to healthy farmland, farm families, and farm communities.

But women face gender-related barriers to managing their land for long-term sustainability. And while women increasingly are the primary decision-makers on farms and inclined towards conservation, they are underrepresented in USDA conservation programs.

AFT firmly believes that women are ideal partners in farmland protection and conservation practices and that we need to do more to reach them.