Best Management Practices
Best Management Practices
Here is a list of environment friendly maintenance practices, ordinances, policies, and laws which help protect our Forests, Wildlife, Waterways, aquatic life, and our health. Whether it be a local Municipality, Township, Borough, City, County, State, or Federal Government, there is always room to improve our practices to help the environment. Usually there are already developed Environmentally friendly best practices, policies, or laws which we can learn from or use in our own hometowns. No need to solve the worlds ecological problems we just have to communication and share and ask for help with implementing the already existing solutions with your Local, State, or Federal Representatives.
Open Space Preservation - Chester County purchases all open space
After adding a referendum question to their ballot, 82% percent of Chester County citizens voted to purchase the majority of Chester County's open space.
Open Space Management - No Mow Meadow schedule
By adjusting meadow mowing schedules to not mow between April and August can establish a meadow protecting ground nesting wildlife
PA Game Commission offers Wildlife friendly open space management advice
Waterway Management - Cool Creeks with trees for trout
Planting trees along creeks lessens the temperature of the water creating a trout friendly habitat.
Litter Solutions
Pennsylvania, NewJersey, and Philadelphia all have interesting nonprofit initiatives which: can help stop litter, help clean up liter
Ilovethyhood.org offers a free trashcan with supplemental trash removal service for your Philadelphia Block
Glitter and Philly311 offer services which cleanup litter in Philadelphia
KeepPABeautiful offers cameras to stop dumping
New Jersey Dep offers services which clean up dumped litter
Storm Water Management - Grates prevent litter from entering waterways
New Jersey's Department of Environmental Protection (NJ Dep) developed a policy that can protect our waterways from litter.
Find out how to:
retrofit existing storm water grates
download their documentation to implement your own waterway friendly Storm water policy