Good conservation work has been done on the property of the East Cocalico Township building in Lancaster County, where 265 feet of Stony Run’s steep, nearly vertical banks were regraded, stabilized with...
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Lancaster County Is Making a Difference By Employing Best Management Practices
Lancaster County Is Making a Difference By Employing Best Management Practices Currently, more than half of Lancaster County’s 1,400 miles of streams are designated by the Environmental Protection Agency as...
New Watershed Website Makes Improving Lancaster’s Waterways Easy
Discover Local Stream Restoration Resources, Data, and Events on the Lancaster County Conservation District's Updated Website The Lancaster County Conservation District (LCCD) has recently developed a ...
A Celebration of Conservation: Conewago Darter 5k Run/Walk and Community Field Day Unite Community for Water Quality and Restoration
Community members, conservationists, and runners gather to increase awareness and involvement with ongoing conservation efforts at the Conewago Watershed On April 2nd, all welcomed the cool spring weather at...
Stabilizing the Eshelman Run Streambank
Eshelman Run, a small creek in Strasburg Borough suffers during heavy rainstorms, overloaded with soil and other organic material; the stream also affected farmland near the creek and the municalitpality’s...
Mark Heller: Local agriculture operator making a difference
In 2018, Mark Heller looked out over his property in Lancaster County and saw a muddy, heavily used meadow right up to the edge of a stream with eroding banks. He thought “this doesn’t look healthy.” But he...