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.
Leopard Slugs are a unique looking gardener’s friend 🐌 The front of their body has a marbled pattern of spots resembling a Leopard. They don’t damage healthy, living plants, but they do eat other slugs, including species that can damage garden plants and vegetables.
By eating dead and rotting plants, as well as fungi, Leopard Slugs recycle nutrients and fertilize the soil!
Leopard Slugs have a small disc of shell inside their body. Slugs evolved from snails and this disc is a remnant of what used to be the snail’s shell 😱
Download JCWA's Leopard Slug Coloring Sheet Here:
drive.google.com/file/d/1DiXTDKJJVgF95aReF47_wgcV3RqEJXWL/view?usp=sharing
www.opalexplorenature.org/leopardslug
Take advantage of this beautiful day and visit Chestnut Ridge Park in Acme, PA! Enjoy the lake and newly installed restrooms and walking trail🏃🏻♀️ It’s a hidden gem in our watershed!
Thank you to everyone who came to our 3rd Annual Lazy River Family Friendly Float Day! It ended up being a nice day. The creek was a little bit low, but you all got through it and still had fun!
Thank you to our Sponsors:
POWR, ACA, Zaffina’s Distribution and Scottdale Vol. Fire Dept..
We couldn’t have done it with out them.
Thank you to KVE Radio and Hull Concessions too for making the day even more fun!
See you next year, hopefully under better conditions!
Stonerollers (Campostoma anomalum) have a medium green/olive dorsum, which fades to white around their ventral surface. They are considered minnows.
Minnows may eat animal life, like insects, small crustaceans, clams, smaller fishes and fish eggs, or they may consume plants, like algae and other organic matter in the stream. The Stoneroller is specially equipped to digest plant material. It has an extremely long intestine that wraps around its swim bladder.
Most minnows also do not build nests for spawning, but Stoneroller hollow out nesting sites in the bottom.
Download this week's Stoneroller Coloring Sheet here:
drive.google.com/file/d/13PNTHLWFlbANPZsj0VuOY7dOWnUTcBeG/view?usp=sharing
www.fishandboat.com/Fish/PennsylvaniaFishes/GalleryPennsylvaniaFishes/Pages/CarpsandMinnows.aspx
