This fall, the Keystone 10 Million Trees Partnership members will seek to improve local stream health by planting roughly 65,500 native trees. By the end of this year, partners will have planted about 200,000 trees. The partnership is coordinated by the Chesapeake Bay Foundation (CBF), and Brenda Sieglitz is the partnership manager.
Requests for fall trees were filled in less than three weeks and 5,000 additional trees were ordered. Collective efforts by the 200-member partnership and the Department of Conservation and Natural Resources have added more than 3 million trees along local streams and in urban settings since the campaign launched in 2018.
While fall trees are being planted, partners will make site visits to landowners to plan for 2022, as over 453,000 trees have been ordered. Additional landowners and locations will be needed to accommodate the 453,000 trees ordered for next year.
Pennsylvania's Clean Water Blueprint calls for about 95,000 acres of forested buffers to be planted in Pennsylvania's portion of the Chesapeake Bay watershed. Adding 10 million new trees alongside streams, streets, and other priority landscapes by the end of 2025 would accelerate the Keystone State toward its clean water goals, achieving as much as two-thirds of the 95,000-acre goal. Trees help to clean and protect waterways by filtering and absorbing polluted runoff, stabilizing streambanks, and improving soil quality.
Landowners interested in having trees for spring should contact a local partner or CBF at http://www.tenmilliontrees.org by mid-November so a site visit can be arranged.
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