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Volunteers Help Plant Trees for Healthy Streams

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The trees will help restore stream banks, create habitat corridors, and mitigate runoff from a nearby road.

Schuylkill River Community Scientist Monitoring Project to Kick Off on World Habitat Day

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The project aims to document the current ecological status and health of the river and seeks to engage and educate a diverse set of river users and residents.

Dip Your Toes in the Water with the Runoff Simulation

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The Runoff Simulation shows how land use and soil determine whether rainfall infiltrates the soil, runs off, or is evaporated and transpired by plants.

Young Men and Women in Charge explore STEM

$50,000 Challenge Match Grant Generously Sponsored by the Colket Family Foundation

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This challenge grant will enable us to sustain and expand our community-wide education and training programs, curricula, and instructional technologies.

Stroud Water Research Center Celebrates The Redford Center

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Executive Director Jill Tidman accepted the Stroud Award for Freshwater Excellence in recognition of The Redford Center’s dedication to protect the environment and fresh water.

Photo of rolled bales of hemp in a foggy field.

What Do Hemp Fiber, Soil Health, and Water Quality Have in Common?

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Stroud Water Research Center has launched a collaborative project to study the cultivation, soil health and environmental impact, and manufacturing of industrial hemp fiber.

Middle school students explore the local watershed to complete their field note books.

Meaningful Watershed Education: A Lasting and Expanding Partnership With a Local School District

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The partnership has become a model for building formal and non-formal education partnerships in systemic watershed education.

Aerial photographs of a recovering forest along White Clay Creek in Pennsylvania.

Patience is the Mother of Science: Long-Term Responses of a Stream to Reforestation

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We’re studying how White Clay Creek can recover from deforestation and agricultural expansion and to what extent restoration practices can acclerate that recovery.

Highlights From the Clean Water Paddle Push

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From families enjoying their backyard ponds to research scientists relaxing with some paddling time after spending a day taking samples, a collective 225 hours were logged on the water.