Comment on FR Doc # 2026-11327
Chesapeake Bay FoundationSupportAdvocacy
Summary: The Chesapeake Bay Foundation, a non-profit organization dedicated to restoring the ecological health of the Chesapeake Bay, supports the proposed revisions to the NRCS National Handbook of Conservation Practices. They provide specific recommendations to strengthen environmental protections, such as shortening storage limits for animal waste, increasing tree canopy requirements for silvopasture, and ensuring native plant preferences are maintained in trail and walkway standards.
The Chesapeake Bay Foundation offers the attached comments in response to NRCS-2026-0034, Proposed Revisions to the National Handbook of Conservation Practices.