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The Eastern Brook Trout Joint Venture is accepting proposals for projects that restore or conserve brook trout habitat. Applications are due August 15, 2011. More Info |
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WBSRC Meeting -
June 14th
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Dear WBSRC Member,
Summer is right around the corner and with it come the projects that you all have spent the winter months planning - assessments, construction, watershed festivals, stream clean-ups, and habitat projects - to name a few. To keep up-to-date on upcoming events, news, funding opportunities and more visit the WBSRC website ( www.wbsrc.org). If your organization is planning an event, starting or completing a project, or doing anything else that might be appropriate for posting on the WBSRC website or in the next newsletter please contact us at (570) 748-4901 or info@wbsrc.org.
Thank you for all that you do to restore the West Branch Susquehanna River watershed! May you have a successful field season ahead! |
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DEP Awards Environmental Education Grants to Four WBSRC Partners
The DEP recently awarded Environmental Education grants to 102 groups throughout Pennsylvania. The groups included schools, universities, non-profits, and conservation districts. Overall, a total of $538,000 was awarded for environmental education throughout the state. Several member groups within the WBSRC were among those receiving grants. Read More... |
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Two New Interns Welcomed in the West Branch
This year Trout Unlimited has hired two full-time interns to work within the West Branch basin, Krista Leibensperger and Angie Brison. A large portion of their internship this summer will include work with the Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission's Unassessed Waters Initiative, which involves surveying headwater streams for wild trout populations.
They will also be working on a Coldwater Heritage Partnership grant to determine the extent and causes for the apparent declines in brook trout populations in Wolf Run and Eddy Lick Run in the Beech Creek watershed. Read More...
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DCWA Gets Creative When It Comes to Funding Projects
by Kelly Williams, Clearfield County Conservation District
With the completion of the Deer Creek Watershed Implementation Plan in 2010, the Deer Creek Watershed Association (DCWA) found themselves asking the next logical question: "how do we implement our plan?" Several years ago the answer would have been to apply for funding through the Growing Greener Program to complete the design and permitting first followed by the actual system construction. However, as we all know, the Growing Greener funds are gradually running out. This has left the DCWA, as well as numerous other watershed groups across Pennsylvania, looking for alternate funding sources to support their efforts. Read More...
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Drury Run and Birch Island Run Focus of SRBC Year 2 Study
by Luanne Steffy & Tom Clark, SRBC
In 2009, the West Branch Susquehanna Subbasin Survey Year 1 was completed and the report (View here). In 2010, after coordination with Trout Unlimited, PADEP District Mining Offices, and Clinton County Conservation District, SRBC began a year-long monitoring project in Drury Run and Birch Island Run for the West Branch Susquehanna Year 2 study with a focus on AMD issues. SRBC selected Drury Run and Birch Island Run to fill in the water quality gaps noted in the West Branch AMD Remediation Strategy (View here) and because SRBC and others believe these two streams could be restored through reasonable efforts.
Drury Run and Birch Island Run are both small (< 20 square miles) mostly forested (>90 %) watersheds in Clinton County that are degraded in some reaches by the lasting effects of AMD. Quarterly water quality sampling along with fish and macroinvertebrate sampling was completed at 19 sites in Drury Run watershed and 10 sites in Birch Island Run watershed from April 2010-February 2011.
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