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Watershed Restoration

Planting a streamside forest on a farm.

Watershed Restoration: Linking Research, Education and Action

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We engage the public in watershed restoration by helping landowners implement best management practices and plant streamside forest buffers.

Level-lip spreader at Stroud Preserve.

Science Seminar Series: Buffers, Wetlands, and Spreaders, Oh My!

1000 460 Stroud Water Research Center

Join us to learn about the extensive restoration efforts taking place throughout the White Clay Creek watershed.
Sponsored by: PECO and Octoraro Native Plant Nursery
Beverages donated by: Victory Brewing Company

Calen Wylie

Calen Wylie

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Watershed Restoration Program Assistant

Map of the Delaware River basin.

Delaware River Watershed Initiative

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A multiyear project to monitor, protect, and restore critical freshwater sources for 15 million people from New York to the mouth of the Delaware Bay.

Westtown School students learn about monitoring streamside forests.

Students Take to the Woods to Monitor Streamside Forests

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This spring, more than 130 students helped Stroud Center educators and watershed restoration staff monitor streamside forests in the Middle-Schuylkill and Brandywine-Christina watersheds.

A child plants a tree in a riparian buffer.

Volunteers Plant 1,140 Trees for National Volunteer Week

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The Stroud Center celebrated National Volunteer Week with help from Exelon Generation, BB&T, Cheshire Hunt Conservancy, Colonial Pipeline, Dansko, Hugh Lofting Timber Framing, and local community members.

Photo of cows standing in a stream

Q & A: Rewarding Private Behavior to Enhance the Commons

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Stroud Center president Bern Sweeney, Ph.D., and Jamie Blaine published an op-ed piece in the September 2016 issue of Freshwater Science proposing a new system to reward private behavior to…

Bern Sweeney looks over a level lip spreader

Partnership in Cover Crop Research Bears Fruit

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Cover cropping coach, Steve Groff, explains in Lancaster Farming how a project at Meadow Springs Farm is a rare opportunity for Stroud Water Research Center scientists to closely observe and…

A stream cascade in Lofty Creek, Pennsylvania.

Delaware River Watershed Initiative — Phase I Protecting and Restoring Places of Ecological Significance (Brandywine-Christina and Middle Schuylkill Clusters

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Professional and volunteer monitoring of chemistry, macroinvertebrates, and fish to support restoration and protection efforts represent an invaluable (and often neglected) tool to evaluate short- and long-term progress toward conservation…

Photo of cows standing in a stream

From Stream to Tap: Keeping Fresh Water Clean and Safe

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Water treatment facilities have procedures in place to make water safe for drinking. But the dirtier the water, the greater the cost to treat it.