Working for Justice
Earth Day Resources
Forest Stewardship
Forests purify our air and water, control floods, and provide an essential home for the plants, insects, birds and other wildlife that support our ecosystem and food chain. They also provide us with timber products, recreational opportunities and related jobs. But since the time of European settlement of North America, man’s relationship with our forests has been largely destructive.
Regardless of whether we control many acres, a suburban lot, or just use public lands, we can all have a positive impact by learning about the responsibilities, practices, and benefits of good forest stewardship.
Native Plant Resources
- Pennsylvania-Native-Trees-and-Shrubs
- Native Plants
- Pennsylvania Bureau of Forestry Planting and Seeding Guidelines
- Warm-Season Grasses and Wildlife
- Enhancing Food (Mast) Production for Woodland Wildlife
- Regenerating Hardwood Forests: Managing Competing Plants, Deer, and Light
- Forest Landowners Guide to Tree Planting Success
- Native Plants of the Northeast: A Guide for Gardening & Conservation - Donald Joseph Leopold
Tree Care:
Invasive Plant Resources
- Japanese Stiltgrass
- Oriental Bittersweet
- Multiflora Rose
- Burning Bush
- Japanese Barberry
- Privet
- Shrub Honeysuckles
- Autumn Olive
- Tree-of-Heaven
- Invasive Weeds - Wild Grape
- Mile-a-minute
- Buckthorn
- Virginia creeper
- Japanese Knotweed
- Garlic Mustard
- Controlling Understory Fern Competition for Regeneration
- Controlling Greenbrier
- Callery Pear
- Norway Maple
- Poison Hemlock Identification and Management
- Invasive Plants
- One Herbicide Mix to Do It All (Almost)
- Glyphosate (Roundup): Understanding Risks to Human Health
Tick Control
Make your own low-cost
tick control tubes!
Abandoned Well Danger
Everybody is at risk from methane and toxin exposure & the effects of climate change
- Abandoned unplugged wells leak massive amounts of methane
- Solutions for homeowners just vent the methane which greatly reduces health and safety risks, but doesn’t eliminate them
- Homeowner solutions still release the methane into the atmosphere
- Methane comes from many other sources we can’t control
Methane is responsible for 20 to 30 % of Earth’s rising temperatures
- Since the Industrial Revolution, methane concentrations in the atmosphere have more than doubled. After carbon dioxide, methane is the second most influential greenhouse gas, responsible for 20 to 30% of Earth’s rising temperatures to date.
What can you do?
- Keep yourself safe from adverse health effects and explosion. Buy an explosive gas detector in addition to carbon monoxide and fire, even if you don’t see a well on the map near you.
- Hundreds of thousands of wells aren’t included on the map, so be sure to search your property and look when you are hiking. Contact the PA Department of Environmental Protection with any unusual findings, such as a pipe, piece of concrete, metal, and hidden holes. When more wells are identified, more funding can be allocated to improve our health and safety.
- Support environmental groups working to resolve this issue and legislation to fund it.
- Share information with others!
