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Chesapeake Bay Stewardship Fund

2 Sep 2020

Department of the Interior, The National Fish and Wildlife Foundation (NFWF), in partnership with the U. [...] NFWF manages the Stewardship Fund Foundation (NFWF) protects and in partnership with government agencies and private corporations and in close coordination restores the nation’s fish, wildlife, with the federal-state Chesapeake Bay Program partnership. [...] federal, corporate and individual partners, NFWF has funded more Since 1999, the Stewardship Fund has worked with the public and private sectors to than 5,000 organizations and deliver on-the-ground conservation successes benefiting the communities, farms, habitats, generated a total conservation and wildlife of the Chesapeake Bay region. [...] Project will triple the average annual number of trees planted across the pilot area by the end of the three- prescribed grazing, 3,800 acres of stream corridor restoration year period, with a target rate of 100,000 trees per year across and 39 acres of wetland restoration that is estimated to generate the Greater Baltimore Wilderness Coalition territory including nutrient reductions of 4,155 poun. [...] Project will install 15 miles of exclusion fencing, establish to increase technical capacity, formalize an existing 80 acres of new riparian forest buffer, exclude livestock from partnership in the lower James River, increase the capacity and protect 151 acres, and restore and stabilize 14 miles of of partners, and bring in partners from outside of the streambanks and 1.5 miles of eroding streamba.

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