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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
![Aerial view of dairy farm before restoration.](https://stroudcenter.org/wp-content/uploads/aerial-view-dairy-farm-labeled-before-bmps.jpg)
Stream Cleanup Project Wins Award from Lancaster County Planning
![A panel of local experts onstage at a Lancaster Water Week event.](https://stroudcenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2023-lancaster-water-week-panel.jpg)
Whether You Say Crick or Creek, We All Celebrate Lancaster Water Week!
![Three brook trout in a stream.](https://stroudcenter.org/wp-content/uploads/brook-trout-ryan-hagerty.jpg)
Bringing Eastern Brook Trout Back to Red Clay Creek
![A group of tree planting volunteers from Sycamore.](https://stroudcenter.org/wp-content/uploads/sycamore-volunteers-tree-planting.jpg)
Volunteers Plant 600 Trees for Healthy Streams
![Farm equipment at Walmoore Holsteins.](https://stroudcenter.org/wp-content/uploads/farm-equipment-walmoore-holsteins.jpg)
Walt Moore, a Stroud Center Partner, Named Pa. Distinguished Dairy Producer
![A debris dam of large branches catches leaves in a stream which then host macroinvertebrates and microbes.](https://stroudcenter.org/wp-content/uploads/debris-dam-leaf-pack-lauver.png)