REMEMBER: This is a project still in development.
Expect the contents and format to evolve considerably in the year ahead!
Intro + Season 1
Introduction + Chapters 1 - 6
Season 1: Getting Involved
The booklet begins with the discovery of local environmental service. Learning the basics and the range of projects where a volunteer may become involved.
Reflections at the Waterside
How a mission was launched.
University Extension Office
Watersheds
Vinsson ‘the Tomte Van’
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Hometown Volunteer
Tree Planting (Naturalized Retention Basin)
Retention Basin, Naturalization
Root Ball, Root Flare, Girdling Root
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Going with the Flow
Water Cycles and Watershed Education.
Conservation Districts
Watershed, Stream Order, Water Cycle/Hydrologic Cycle
Point-source and non-point source pollution
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Know your local watersheds (PA example)
County Conservation District & Township Committees
River and Stream Watershed Associations
Native Defense
Resisting Habitat Invasives.
Invasive species, “hitchhikers”
Invasive, Noxious, Naturalized weeds
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Invasive, Noxious, & Naturalized weeds
An online Rogues gallery of invasives
PlantSnap ID App (and many others)
Nut & Honey
Fostering Biodiverse Food Forests
Tiny Forest, Permaculture, Sustainable Gardening
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Martha’s Community Farm (a Catholic Social Services site)
Garden of Health (a local garden vs food insecurity)
Akira Miyawaki, Blue Planet Prize, 2006
Lilliputian Drama
Rain and Pollinator Gardens
Rain Barrel, Pollinator Garden, Habitat Fragmentation
Water capture, Impervious surfaces
PSU Extension Master Gardener Program
John Muir Laws: Nature Stewardship & Journaling
Guide to Gardening for Life in Southeastern Pennsylvania
By the Bucks County Audubon Society
Winter Lodge
Water Quality and Bank Stabilization
Entomology, Fly Fishing, Macroinvertebrate surveys
Bank Stabilization, Sedimentation, Turbidity
Bank Pins Monitoring
Live Staking