Stroud Water Research Center
In Pennsylvania, property owners and farmers are transforming their lands to restore a stream’s health and its native fish.
The Penn Vet campus is a 700-acre living laboratory at the headwaters of White Clay Creek, protecting soil health, biodiversity, and water quality.
Jim and his family farm using no-till practices, cover crops, and riparian buffers that help keep soil and nutrients on the field and out of nearby streams.
After nearly 10 years, Bud and Marilyn Miller’s 11-acre buffer is firmly established and is finally becoming a forest of its own.
Help us plant trees in Cochranville with the Chesapeake Bay Foundation!
The legendary football coach knows victories — but his greatest win for Chester County may be restoring streams and protecting fresh water on his farm.
Community members clear invasives, replant trees, and celebrate with a rare Franklin tree to inspire youth-led forest stewardship.
Forests near and far contribute to stream health. A tree planted miles away can still support water quality — if water flows from it to a stream.
If you own, manage, or farm a property with a stream, you can help save farmland raptors while enhancing the value and enjoyment of your land.
Forested buffers have long been valued as barriers or filters that keep pollutants from reaching streams, but that’s only half the picture.