BEST MANAGEMENT PRACTICES
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Title: Agricultural Wetlands: Values for Landowners
Format: Video
Audience: Farmers, general
Length: 28 minutes
Contact: PA Association of Conservation Districts, Inc.
Description: Encourages farm management practices and cost share programs
that preserve wetlands
Title: Chesapeake Bay Dissolved Oxygen Goal for Restoration of Living Resources
Habitats
Format: Book
Audience: Technical environmental staff
Length: 81 pp
Contact: Chesapeake Bay Program - Communications Office
Description: Tool devised to measure effects of nutrient load reduction
strategies on water quality
Title: A Conservation Catalog
Format: Booklet
Audience: Farmers
Length: 20 pp
Contact: PA Association of Conservation Districts, Inc., Natural Resources
Conservation Service
Description: Review of best management practices for farmers
Title: Conservation On Your Own
Format: Video
Audience: Farmers
Length: 60 minutes
Contact: Natural Resources Conservation Service, PA Association of Conservation
Districts, Inc.
Description: A "how to" video featuring eight widely used soil
conservation practices
Title: Conservation Tillage: A Checklist for U.S. Farmers
Format: Booklet
Audience: Farmers
Length: 40 pp
Contact: Conservation Technology Information Center
Description: Tool to assist farmers in starting high residue crop production
system
Title: Conservation Trees
Format: Brochure
Audience: Citizens
Length: 22 pp
Contact: National Arbor Day Foundation
Description: Detailed information on tree planting including maintenance
and benefits
Title: Corridor Management for Pastureland Streams
Format: Booklet
Audience: Farmers
Length: 12 pp
Contact: PA Fish and Boat Commission
Description: Explores pasturelands and stream quality, and the means to
improve the health of both
Title: Establishing Vegetative Buffer Strips Along Streams to Improve Water
Quality
Format: Booklet
Audience: Landowners and technical staff
Length: 56 pp
Contact: Penn State University - Publications Distribution Center
Description: Designed to assist landowners of riparian zones develop
management plans, and as a resource guide for technical staff
Title: Guidelines for Reclamation of Severely Disturbed Areas
Format: Booklet
Audience: General
Length: 11 pp
Contact: Penn State University - Publications Distribution Center
Description: Erosion control and conservation planting information
Title: Impacts of BMPs On Water Quality in Pennsylvania
Format: Book
Audience: General
Length: 86 pp
Contact: Interstate Commission of the Potomac River Basin
Description: Technical summary; 1988 CREAMS model used to examine different
BMPs
Title: Lines On The Land
Format: Brochure and video
Audience: Students (grades 6-8)
Length: 24 pp brochure; 28 pp activities; 10-minute video
Contact: National Association of Conservation Districts, PA Association
of Conservation Districts, Inc.
Description: 16 learning activities, and a video about conservation practices
Title: Minimizing Accelerated Soil Erosion and Preventing Sediment Pollution
Format: Fact sheet
Audience: Developers, officials, farmers
Length: 2 pp
Contact: PA Department of Environmental Protection - Bureau of Watershed
Management
Description: Explains process by which soil erosion controls and how it
can be prevented
Title: Riparian Forest Buffers in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed
Format: Fact sheet
Audience: General
Length: 4 pp
Contact: Chesapeake Bay Program - Communications Office
Description: Provides background, functions and values, and a description
of a riparian forest buffer
Title: Riparian Forest Buffers: The Link Between Land and Water
Format: Video
Audience: General
Length: 21 minutes
Contact: PA Association of Conservation Districts, Inc.
Description: Illustrates the functions and values of the riparian forest
habitat and provides information on the three zone riparian management system
Title: Riparian Forest Buffers: Linking Land and Water
Format: Booklet
Audience: General
Length: 16 pp
Contact: Chesapeake Bay Program - Communications Office
Description: This work contains the following themes as they relate to
the Chesapeake Bay: The Living Natural Bay/Ecosystems, Watersheds, Environmental
Stewardship and Sustainability of the Bay/Stewardship
Title: The Riparian Zone
Format: Video
Audience: General
Length: 20 minutes
Contact: PA Association Conservation Districts, Inc.
Description: Describes the importance of vegetative buffers along waterways
Title: Rundown on the Runoff
Format: Video
Audience: Farmers, developers, citizens
Length: 30 minutes
Contact: PA Association of Conservation Districts, Inc.
Description: Management of stormwater runoff through erosion and sediment
control, no-till seeding, etc.
Title: Sediment and Erosion Control Requirements for Farming Operations
Format: Fact sheet
Audience: Farmers, technicians
Length: Approx. 5 pp
Contact: PA Department of Environmental Protection - Bureau of Watershed
Management
Description: Guide for how to implement BMPs in erosion and sedimentation
control plans
Title: Stormwater Management in Pennsylvania
Format: Fact sheet
Audience: Municipal officials, developers
Length: 2 pp
Contact: PA Department of Environmental Protection - Bureau of Watershed
Management
Description: Explains what stormwater management is, provides descriptions
of Pennsylvania's stormwater management program and lists suggestions for resolving
stormwater conflicts
Title: Stormwater Permits for Construction Activities, NPDES
Format: Fact sheet
Audience: Developers, municipal officials
Length: 2 pp
Contact: PA Department of Environmental Protection - Bureau of Watershed
Management
Description: Information on NPDES program, permitting and planning requirements
for stormwater discharges associated with development
Title: Straight Talk About Your Conservation Plan
Format: Video
Audience: Farmers
Length: 20 minutes
Contact: PA Association of Conservation Districts, Inc.
Description: Rationale for implementation of 1990 farm bill, sources
of technical help to come into compliance
Title: Streambank Fencing and Stream Crossings
Format: Fact sheet
Audience: Farmers
Length: 2 pp
Contact: PA Association of Conservation Districts, Inc.
Description: Describes cost effective way to improve water quality in
streams and protect herd health
Title: Streambank Fencing, Green Banks, Clean Streams
Format: Booklet
Audience: Farmers
Length: 11 pp
Contact: Pennsylvania State University - Publications Distribution Center
Description: Benefits of stream bank fencing and sources of technical
and financial assistance
Title: Stream Crossings During Forest Harvesting Operations
Format: Video
Audience: Foresters, loggers, land owners
Length: 20 minutes
Contact: Penn State Institutes of the Environment; PA Association of
Conservation Districts, Inc.
Description: Illustrates numerous types of stream crossings and discusses
advantages and disadvantages of each type
Title: Streamside Forests: The Vital, Beneficial Resource
Format: Booklet
Audience: General
Length: 16 pp
Contact: US Fish and Wildlife Service
Description: Full-color booklet explaining benefits of forested buffer
strips to protect water quality
Title: Timber Harvest Operations Field Guide for Waterways, Wetlands and
Erosion Control
Format: Booklet
Audience: Timber harvesters
Length: 49 pp
Contact: PA Department of Environmental Protection - Bureau of Watershed
Management
Description: Assist timber harvesters to prepare and implement soil erosion
and sediment control plans, and to work around streams and wetlands.