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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 dollars through USDA’s Resource Conservation Partnership Program to support agriculture conservation and restoration projects on farms in the Delaware and Chesapeake Bay watersheds.
![Archival photo of Robin L. Vannote, Ph.D., working at an indoor stream flume.](https://stroudcenter.org/wp-content/uploads/robin-vannote-indoor-stream-square-150x150.jpg)
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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![Photo of a farmyard after laneway installation.](https://stroudcenter.org/wp-content/uploads/barnyard-after-laneway-installation.jpg)
![Cattle walkway area before stabilization.](https://stroudcenter.org/wp-content/uploads/cattle-walkway-before-stabilization.jpg)
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Watershed Restoration Staff
Watershed Restoration News
![Teachers from the Pennsylvania Leadership Charter School learned about the Trout Grow on Trees program.](https://stroudcenter.org/wp-content/uploads/teachers-and-trout.jpg)
Sharing Our Science: Winter 2016
![Colorful trout drawings.](https://stroudcenter.org/wp-content/uploads/design-a-trout.jpg)
Families Learn and Play During Trout Grow on Trees® Day
![Matt Ehrhart with Penn State’s Dean of College of Agriculture Richard Roush and Sen. Elder Vogel Jr.](https://stroudcenter.org/wp-content/uploads/ag-council-award-meta.jpg)
Ehrhart Re-Elected as Penn State Agricultural Council President
![White Clay Creek behind the Stroud Center in 2013, showing the progress of restoration.](https://stroudcenter.org/wp-content/uploads/wcc_2013.jpg)
Mapping a Stream’s Recovery
![Aerial view of Chesapeake Bay by Stuart Rankin.](https://stroudcenter.org/wp-content/uploads/chesapeake-bay-by-Stuart-Rankin-meta.jpg)
Court Ruling a Victory for Chesapeake Bay
![2015 Society for Freshwater Science conference logo.](https://stroudcenter.org/wp-content/uploads/sfs_milw_logo.jpg)