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PA Working to Protect Chesapeake

January 16th, 2024 by WCBC Radio

The Keystone 10 Million Trees Partnership is helping to get Pennsylvania on track for its 2025 Chesapeake Bay pollution-reduction goals. So far over 5-point-9 million trees have been planted. Joe Hallinan with the Chesapeake Bay Foundation says they plan to distribute 100-thousand trees each spring and fall, to reach the goal of 10 million new trees in the state by 2025. The restoration team prioritizes projects in the buffer zones between land and water to plant trees along rivers, streams and shorelines, and in urban neighborhoods…