with more than 5,000 landowners in restoring more than 2,500
miles of forested riparian buffers and placing hundreds of other
conservation practices on Pennsylvania farms; and
WHEREAS, Chesapeake Bay Foundation staff, partner
organizations and more than 6,800 school students, families and
individual volunteers have successfully completed hundreds of
conservation projects in Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia, West
Virginia, Delaware and Washington, DC, including restoring more
than 6,300 acres of wetlands, 20,900 acres of forested buffers
and 2,500 miles of stream buffers, while installing more than
1,400 conservation best management practices on working farms
and planting more than 2,300,000 trees; and
WHEREAS, The Chesapeake Bay Foundation's Susquehanna
Watershed Environmental Education Program, established in 1991,
acquaints students and others with local rivers and streams to
emphasize their importance in daily life through more than 2,000
programs involving approximately 45,000 students and teachers in
its spring and fall Environmental Education Days; and
WHEREAS, The Chesapeake Bay Foundation's Student Leadership
Council, located in Pennsylvania, inspires student leaders by
providing them with unique environmental educational experiences
while assisting in the development of their personal voices as
advocates for clean water; and
WHEREAS, The Chesapeake Bay Foundation Mentors in
Agricultural Conservation's job-shadowing program prepares
students for potential careers in agriculture; and
WHEREAS, The Chesapeake Bay Foundation won the President's
1992 Environment and Conservation Challenge Award and the 1993
National Geographic Society's Chairman's Award, two of the
nation's highest environmental honors, and the Good Steward
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