The 10 Million Trees Partnership is managed by the Chesapeake Bay Foundation with a goal of planting 10 million trees by 2025 all across the state. The effort has developed a network of partnership with 167 different agencies that each provide different skillsets to help reach the goal.
“This program aligns with the bay foundation’s goal of meeting the Chesapeake Bay blueprint to reduce nutrients such as phosphorus and soil loads that make their way to the bay,” said Brenda Sieglitz, senior manager of the Keystone 10 Million Trees Partnership.
“One of the best ways to do that is to plant trees.”
The partnership launched in April of 2018. Since then, collectively between partners, state and federal programs, the initiative has led to 2.5 million trees finding roots in the Commonwealth.
“We use a tracking system and submit data to the EPA (Environmental Protection Agency) so that the work of all our partners in the Keystone partnership will effectively count toward the Chesapeake Bay blueprint goals,” said Sieglitz.
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