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Newest Stories
Why Model Your Watershed?
Environmental organizations and educators are finding more and more emphasis on how to protect our watersheds, monitor them, and bring ...
The Relativeness of Water
In the cosmology of Indigenous cultures, “water is life” holds a deeper, ancient, implicit value beyond its mainstream context ...
How to See a Stream: Part Two, Stream Monitoring and Impairment
What can one do to help a stream recover from pollution, protect a stream from degradation, or simply understand what ...
How to See a Stream: Part One, Stream Health Dynamics
Streams and the valleys they drain are complex environments. This complexity makes regulating, restoring, and protecting these aquatic systems a ...
An Interview With Pete Goodman
Wisdom and advice on watershed protection from a prodigious environmental leader you've (possibly) never heard of ...
Saving Primrose Creek
It is January 30, 2021, at 1:35 PM (UTC-5:00). In two hours, streamflow at Phillips Mill, Solebury Township, Bucks County, ...
Newest Tools
Tools for Engaging With Municipalities and the Public on Freshwater Issues
Guidance Documents The Delaware River Basin Policy and Practice Workgroup has developed guidance documents to provide foundational science references for environmental advocates collecting stream data and communicating results to local government officials. The target readership ...
Pennsylvania Watershed Organizations Interactive Map
Searching for a watershed organization near you? This online mapping tool can help you find a community watershed organization, watershed alliance, or regional partner. These organizations can help you understand watershed issues and help empower ...
USGS StreamStats
StreamStats provides access to spatial analytical tools that are useful for water-resources planning and management, and for engineering and design purposes. The map-based user interface can be used to delineate drainage areas, get basin characteristics ...
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This story is the first in a two-part series (read part two here) offering a brief overview of stream ecology and monitoring. Though initially written for a fly-fishing audience in southeastern P […]
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Wisdom and Advice on Watershed Protection From a Prodigious Environmental Leader You’ve (Possibly) Never Heard Of
Photo of Pickering Creek by Matthew Brink, CC BY-NC-SA 2.0.
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Thank you Carol for the excellent article about Pete, his story and his meritorious efforts.
You have made him visible :-). As a young lad I too frolicked and played in Cobbs Creek.
Our Primrose watershed is underlined by limestone and has had numerous spikes of chloride in our EnviroDIY conductivity measurements this year. We will be advising the township to be vigilant and aware of storage and distribution.
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