Stroud Water Research Center
Cleaning up the bay and its tributaries will improve the lives of 17 million people who live in the Chesapeake Bay watershed.
In May, Stroud Water Research Center scientists attended the weeklong annual meeting of the Society for Freshwater Science in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Eisenbise joined the watershed restoration team in February. Photo: Kay Dixon With interests ranging from agriculture to white water kayaking to planting trees along streams, Stephanie Eisenbise, Stroud Center’s new…
Volunteers planted, staked and installed tree shelters on 500 trees. The work was completed within two hours — a new record for the Stroud Center.
Stroud Water Research Center’s Farm Stewardship Program provides technical and financial assistance to farmers and landowners to implement best management practices (BMPs) to protect water quality and improve stream health.…
Berks County Conservation District gave Sweeney its Conservation Individual of the Year Award and Lancaster County Conservation District gave Stroud Center its Cooperating Agency Award.
When farmers improve the health of streams on their land, it also improves the health of their herds.
The Stroud Center will restore Sharitz Run, a tributary to Doe Run in the headwaters of the Brandywine Creek near Coatesville and Unionville, Pennsylvania.
In between the flurry of watershed restoration planning and field work that the Stroud Restoration Team carries out, it organized several riparian forest buffer workshops through the region this fall.
Here, in brief, is our approach to watershed restoration outreach to distant watersheds and new communities.