Streams and Rivers

Join us to learn various options for stabilizing eroding streambanks, including design considerations, techniques, permitting requirements, and available technical assistance and financial resources.

Spring rains bring unique challenges to riparian buffer areas.

Newly planted trees in buffer areas may need some assistance after rough weather events.

What is the condition of the small stream on your property? Are the banks eroding? Do you notice increased sediment in the water? Is it prone to rising and falling quickly during rain events?

This article discusses controlling water's edge erosion problems on small riparian sites.

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

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.

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

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

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.

Thoughtful selection of streamside trees and shrubs can have the added bonus of producing fruit, nuts, berries, or woody florals for profit or personal enjoyment.

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!

A video guide to affordable and easy stream bank restoration using branch cuttings called live stakes.

Help plant tree seedlings as part of a riparian buffer along a local waterway!

Join other volunteers for this live staking event and help stabilize a local stream!

Publication providing in-detail steps, illustrations, and images to help you repair your eroding backyard stream.

Join this virtual series to learn simple and affordable techniques to help repair your stream.

Whether on a farm, in your residential neighborhood, or on public lands, this informative event will cover how to protect one of our most essential resources, water. We will discuss popular best management practices for water quality, how to identify them, and how these practices keep our water clean.

As you paddle on a local lake or cast a rod in a nearby stream, remember to take appropriate precautions necessary to slow the spread of aquatic invasive species (AIS).

A hands-on, inquiry based activity kit that helps older youth and adults learn about water quality issues in small watersheds and the decision making processes that go into improving those water quality issues.

Flooding is a major concern during large storm events because of the potential for damage to homes, businesses, and roads. Riparian buffer owners also need to inspect for and repair flood damage to their young forests.

The Master Watershed Steward Program provides extensive training in watershed management to volunteers who, in return, educate the community about watershed stewardship based on university research and recommendations.

This article explains the benefits of using riparian buffers to protect the health of waterways, livestock, adjacent property, and all who drink and use water downstream.