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Earth Week Volunteers Give Streamside Forest a Helping Hand

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Stroud Water Research Center wrapped up Earth Week on a beautiful Friday afternoon by revisiting two streamside tree plantings in Coatesville, Pennsylvania, for spring maintenance.

  • Volunteers do streamside forest maintenance under a very blue sky.
  • A boy carries a tree tube used to shelter a native tree in a streamside forest planting.

Volunteers from Southern Chester County Chamber of Commerce Young Business Leaders, Voya Financial, and Penn State Master Gardeners helped to straighten tree tubes, replace broken stakes, and pick up trash on two riparian forest buffers along Buck Run Creek.

  • A man securing a tree shelter on a native tree in a streamside forest planting.
  • Two women restaking a leaning tree tube in a streamside forest planting.

Read about the installation of one of the plantings, completed in 2017, to see how well the trees have done in four years! If you are interested in learning about upcoming volunteer opportunities, contact Jessica Provinski.

  • A boy plays with a dog with a stick in a streamside forest planting.
  • A woman plants a native shrub in a streamside forest planting.

Photos: Jana Bannan

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