Conservation & Rehabilitation
In our hands, we hold the power to protect, conserve, restore and rehabilitate our creek. JCWA works with many partners to complete large and small projects in our watershed. Click for link to our Project work.
Natural Resources
Through the dedication to research, sampling, monitoring and analysis, JCWA is working hard to understand the ecology of our creek. Data drives our work and our projects. Click for link to our stream conditions website.
Education & Recreation
Through education and recreation, we bring people to the creek or the creek to our students. People use the creek from a variety of recreational outlets, JCWA host events focused on that shared resource. Click here for Recreation.
Calling birders of all experience levels! Winter time bird watching is the perfect way to spend some time outdoors this month🐦
Washington Crossing Historic Park’s Bird Bingo card can help you begin your adventure as a new birder! The card pairs with your phone and works as a field guide. To participate, print your bingo card on both sides of one piece of paper, take it with you on your next hike or walk, and use your phone to scan the QR codes on the card. You’ll be able to hear bird calls, see videos, and view migration maps.
Get your BINGO card here:
events.dcnr.pa.gov/event/self-led_bird_bingo
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Calling birders of all experience levels! Winter time bird watching is the perfect way to spend some time outdoors this month! Washington Crossing Historic Park’s Bird Bingo card can help you begin your adventure as a new birder! The card pairs with your phone and works as a field guide. To partic...Penn State Extension Renewable Natural Resources Team is launching a new Backyard Stream Repair webinar series! This series will discuss simple and affordable ways for homeowners to repair their streambanks. The first webinar is February 9th and will occur on Tuesdays at 2:00pm until March 9th. Check out the article for more information!
New Resources for Small Residential Stream Owners
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Are you losing some of your land every time it rains? Would you like to learn solutions for your eroding backyard stream?Certify your property to be watershed friendly with the Penn State Extension Master Watershed Stewards and Nurture Nature Center!
Certifying your property has many benefits including:
- Protects your local streams and rivers and all the life that depends on clean water.
- Promotes habitat for birds, fish and other wildlife.
- Recognizes your commitment to best practices managing water on your property
- Educates others about healthy watersheds
- Brings awareness to the program
- Helps support the Master Watershed Steward Program
- Provides you with tools and resources to achieve a watershed-friendly status
- Gives you “bragging rights” for all of your hard work
For more information, click the link below:
nurturenaturecenter.org/programs/community/wfp-cert/?fbclid=IwAR0A0GkjB_UnZb0itgUh1YLnDRTiuTaFtly...
Don't forget, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is now accepting art submissions for the 2021 Federal Junior Duck Stamp Contest! Combining art and science the Junior Duck Stamp Contest encourages students to explore the natural world while learning valuable biology and wildlife management principles.
🦆 All Pennsylvania students, grades K-12, interested in entering the contest must submit one hand-illustrated piece of artwork that features a live NATIVE North American waterfowl species as the focus of the piece.
🖌 Artwork submitted should be 9” x 12” in size, less than ¼” thick, and be oriented horizontally. Students can use any medium—paint, pencil, crayons, etc. Please note, NO LETTERING can be featured on the front of the artwork. Artwork should be sent to Kelly Quain the John Heinz National Wildlife Refuge by March 15, 2021!
🎨 Congratulations to Jillian Laskoski, age 12, who was the 2019-2020 best in show winner for her illustration of a bufflehead! See below.
Read more here ➡ bit.ly/38emEhr.
Have Questions ➡ Kelly_quain@fws.gov
Have you ever wondered where snow comes from? ☃Or why one winter day you get snow but another you get sleet or freezing rain? Learn the answers, in this children friendly video, to those questions plus what makes snow fluffy and whether every snowflake really is unique in this brief educational video.
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What Makes it Snow? Winter Precipitation for Kids - FreeSchool
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Have you ever wondered where snow comes from? Or why one winter day you get snow but another you get sleet or freezing rain? Learn the answers to those quest...