At 2 p.m. daily, representatives from the USDA Grain Inspection, Packers and Stockyards Administration will answer questions about their role in the livestock and poultry industry. In this exhibit, you can make the changes, turn on the water and see what happens. Kids also can practice casting for their next fishing trip, see mounted wildlife specimens, use their sense of touch to guess items that affect soil and water quality and make fish prints from rubber models of Pennsylvania fish. Visitors who take this year's conservation tour or wetlands and stream corridor management tour will see a newly planted forested riparian buffer. The buffer demonstrates how tree plantings protect streams by filtering out sediments and nutrients.
Trees also shade the water, keeping it cool and oxygenated.
See practices that improve soil and water quality, including crop residue management, contour strip-cropping, buffer strips, cropland terraces, waterways and diversions. Buses leave at 11 a.m. and 2 p.m. Wetlands and stream corridor management. Learn about how stream crossings, stream bank fencing and restored wetlands can improve stream bank corridors and water quality. Buses leave at 10 a.m. and 1 p.m. Forest stewardship.