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Watershed Restoration: A Shared Public and Private Investment

Stroud Water Research Center works hand in hand with landowners, helping them use their land more effectively through whole-farm planning and watershed stewardship.

Our expert team sets up the collaborations and partnerships necessary to achieve the highest level of freshwater conservation. The Stroud Center and many partner groups and agencies have secured over $20 million through USDA’s Resource Conservation Partnership Program to support agriculture conservation and watershed restoration projects on farms in the Delaware and Chesapeake Bay watersheds.

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The Robin L. Vannote Watershed Restoration Program is named for Robin Vannote, Ph.D., a research scientist and the Stroud Center’s first director. Under Vannote’s leadership, the Stroud Center evolved from a dream to an institution at the forefront of freshwater research. The Stroud Center has benefited enormously from Vannote’s hard work, keen insight, and long-term scientific vision since 1966, and the naming of the Watershed Restoration Program is a fitting tribute.

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Cattle walkway area before stabilization.

Watershed Restoration Staff

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Lisa Blazure

Soil Health Coordinator
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Wills Curley

Watershed Restoration Project Coordinator
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Rebecca Duczkowski

Assistant Director of Donor Relations
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Matthew Ehrhart

Director of Watershed Restoration
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Lamonte Garber

Watershed Restoration Coordinator
Amanda Garzio-Hadzick

Amanda Garzio-Hadzick

Watershed Restoration Specialist
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Abby Horst

Watershed Restoration Assistant
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Heather Titanich

Watershed Restoration Coordinator
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David Wise

Watershed Restoration Manager
Calen Wylie

Calen Wylie

Watershed Restoration Program Assistant

Watershed Restoration News

A wooden sign marks the Miller Meadow Loop walking path through the riparian buffer.
A Family Forest: The Millers’ Riparian Legacy
After nearly 10 years, Bud and Marilyn Miller’s 11-acre buffer is firmly established and is finally becoming a forest of its own.
Dick Vermeil with a tree shelter.
Coach Dick Vermeil’s Legacy of Clean Water
The legendary football coach knows victories — but his greatest win for Chester County may be restoring streams and protecting fresh water on his farm.
A streambank before riparian reforestation.
Digging Into Soil Health
Healthy soil is the foundation of a thriving ecosystem and clean surface water; yet it’s often an overlooked element in restoration work.
Dave Wise receives the Fran Flanigan Environmental Leadership Award from the Alliance for the Chesapeake Bay.
Stroud Center’s David Wise Honored With Environmental Leadership Award
The Fran Flanigan Environmental Leadership Award recognizes exceptional dedication to restoring cleaner rivers and streams across the Chesapeake Bay Watershed.
A cross-section showing cover crop roots growing deeply into the soil.
Love Your (Gardening) Soils
Skip the rototiller. Learn four soil-health principles, why worms matter, and steps to build water-wise, resilient home gardens.
Church members remove invasive vines to restore a forest.
Love Trees? Set Them Free!
Community members clear invasives, replant trees, and celebrate with a rare Franklin tree to inspire youth-led forest stewardship.