Forest buffers separate farm fields from the West Branch Susquehanna River as it flows through Clinton County, Pa. (Photo by Will Parson/Chesapeake Bay Program)
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I do not want a Silent Spring. Get rid of the toxins.
Let the kids swim and fish off the piers. Please keep the water clean so they can enjoy what we used to enjoy back in the day.
Join with Future Harvest to help educate farmers with using techniques that help protect the bay, the air and the surrounding land.
Hopefully, the efforts to gain consensus on long term strategy will move quickl to piotity and focus. Agricultural mitigation is missing the mark to date. A change in how this is addressed should be strategy one. Climate change impact on the Bay is the most ignored Chesapeake risk in the next decades. Incorporating carbon and methane projections into watershed improvement projects, and inversely incorporating watershed mitigation into projects that address rising bay waters should be strategy priority two
Time to stop the fertilizers on our private yards. Let the farmers do what they have to do. Our desires for plush green yards is the top contributor but does the DEQ and CBPA have the backbone to start what we all know needs addressing?
YES, stop and make it illegal for all of these lawn and garden shops, home depot lowes walmart etc.. to just sell OTC pesticide, insecticides, herbicides, fungicides etc etc and all those nasty chemicals and poisons, where anyone clown can buy and misuse it. As a professional we have to go through certifications and licensing just to even enter the room the stuff gets stored in, LET ALONE actually to use or apply it, but yet any SMOE on the block can go buy this stuff and spray it all over the country killing everything in sight!!! That' be a GREAT HELP! MAKE IT ILLEGAL to sell n purchase w/o credentials that prove they know how to use it!
I'm the founder of Magnet Fishers of Virginia, if there is anyway we can help further the goals of this program please let me know! In the past year alone we've removed hundreds of tons of metal from Virginia's waterways and will continue to do so.
When after all these years are we going to get dumped in the upper bay by opening the flood gates at coloring. Time to clean up the catch basin by the company operators or remove the dam. Oh also stop the importation into delmarva of put of state agricultural waste.
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Comments
I do not want a Silent Spring. Get rid of the toxins.
Let the kids swim and fish off the piers. Please keep the water clean so they can enjoy what we used to enjoy back in the day.
Join with Future Harvest to help educate farmers with using techniques that help protect the bay, the air and the surrounding land.
Hopefully, the efforts to gain consensus on long term strategy will move quickl to piotity and focus. Agricultural mitigation is missing the mark to date. A change in how this is addressed should be strategy one. Climate change impact on the Bay is the most ignored Chesapeake risk in the next decades. Incorporating carbon and methane projections into watershed improvement projects, and inversely incorporating watershed mitigation into projects that address rising bay waters should be strategy priority two
Time to stop the fertilizers on our private yards. Let the farmers do what they have to do. Our desires for plush green yards is the top contributor but does the DEQ and CBPA have the backbone to start what we all know needs addressing?
YES, stop and make it illegal for all of these lawn and garden shops, home depot lowes walmart etc.. to just sell OTC pesticide, insecticides, herbicides, fungicides etc etc and all those nasty chemicals and poisons, where anyone clown can buy and misuse it. As a professional we have to go through certifications and licensing just to even enter the room the stuff gets stored in, LET ALONE actually to use or apply it, but yet any SMOE on the block can go buy this stuff and spray it all over the country killing everything in sight!!! That' be a GREAT HELP! MAKE IT ILLEGAL to sell n purchase w/o credentials that prove they know how to use it!
I'm the founder of Magnet Fishers of Virginia, if there is anyway we can help further the goals of this program please let me know! In the past year alone we've removed hundreds of tons of metal from Virginia's waterways and will continue to do so.
When after all these years are we going to get dumped in the upper bay by opening the flood gates at coloring. Time to clean up the catch basin by the company operators or remove the dam. Oh also stop the importation into delmarva of put of state agricultural waste.
Thank you!
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