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Large wood provides multiple benefits in stream systems such as stabilized streambanks, improved floodplain connectivity, and more diverse aquatic habitat.

Discover the Master Watershed Steward Program, empowering communities through conservation, environmental education, and community involvement. Join us today!

Discover the Master Watershed Steward Program, empowering communities through conservation, environmental education, and community involvement. Join us today!

Discover the Master Watershed Steward Program, empowering communities through conservation, environmental education, and community involvement. Join us today!

A handy, step-by-step checklist of considerations when preparing to plant trees.

Create and maintain a water-saving rain barrel using the purchased kit, a barrel, and these step-by-step instructions, including photos.

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This article provides information on what PFAS chemicals are, their sources, how they impact us, and what we can do about it.

As landscapes grow and develop, the health of streams and rivers affects the quantity and quality of the rainfall entering waterways; what many call stormwater.

Pennsylvania is home to many fascinating wetlands, one of the most distinctive being bogs.

The origins of forest streams are often misunderstood. They involve subsurface conditions, slope, trees, precipitation, snow melt, runoff, and groundwater.

Dragonflies and Damselflies make up an important part of a backyard pond ecosystem.

Introduce children to Dr. Watt R. Shedd in this new book that shows readers aged 8–10 how they, too, can be stream doctors.

Take a bike tour with our Master Watershed Stewards on the Northwest Lancaster County River Trail, learn about the trail history, discover watershed features, and more!

Routine spraying of individual lawns with non-selective insecticides to reduce mosquito populations can easily enter waterways, harming non-target organisms.

If you have a stream on your property, even it's small, you have the opportunity to both enhance your landscape and protect precious water resources.

Municipal Separate Storm Sewer System refers to a collection of structures designed to gather stormwater and discharge it into local streams and rivers.

This video shows movements of water under the earth and how pollution might affect drinking water. (Modelo de Agua Subterranea)

This Field Notebook covers a number of useful topics, including tree shelter removal, tree protection, and more.

During the First Investigation of Stream Health (FISH) activity, one optional data field records the number of frogs and toads observed or heard. Different species are active during different months in Pennsylvania.

Learn how grass buffers are beneficial to streambanks by reducing sediment, discover species of grass as consideration for the use of riparian buffers, and more!

Manure impacts water quality. In Pennsylvania, everyone who produces manure needs a plan. That includes 4-H youth!

Results of a 2006 Penn State study on the condition of septic systems statewide, funded by a grant from the Center for Rural Pennsylvania.

Learn the basics of farms and farming, including crops, livestock, and natural resources, common to Pennsylvania and other Mid-Atlantic and Northeast states.

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