News, ideas, questions, and observations from Willistown Conservation Trust Staff as we use local conservation to make a broad impact.
Creek Week: Harmful Algae Blooms
The arrival of warm weather means summer is coming and peak swimming season is right around the corner. However, when...
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Creek Week: Agricultural Grazing & Its Impact on Streams
Headwaters throughout the United States constantly face many pressures that threaten their integrity. New housing developments, new roads, yards and...
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Creek Week: A Hidden Stream Engineer
Ecosystem engineers are species that change the habitats in which they live. In the Trust’s program area, one ecosystem engineer...
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Creek Week: Crayfish Commotion
Chester County is home to some of the most beautiful landscapes on the east coast with its rolling hills, beautiful...
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Creek Week: Beaver Business
In the middle of our spring tree planting, the Watershed Protection Team had quite the surprise when we spotted evidence...
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Creek Week: The Trouble With Lawns
Few landscape features define American suburbia like the lawn. Drive through a neighborhood anywhere in the US and you are...
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Celebrating Preservation Month
TAKING A CLOSER LOOK AT THE PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE OF LAND CONSERVATION IN THE WILLISTOWN COUNTRYSIDE The Biden administration...
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Historic Sugartown & Willistown Conservation Trust: Where Preservation Meets Conservation
Historic Sugartown and Willistown Conservation Trust are teaming up to offer a program that explores the preservation of the 19th-century...
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Stream Exploration: Discovering Ridley Creek
Do you know what watershed you live in? Ridley Creek is a historically important waterway and continues to play a...
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The Power of Trees in a Watershed
Trees that grow along waterways play a critical role in maintaining a healthy stream or river. Trees provide a huge...
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Darby Creek Headwaters Monitoring Program
The Watershed Protection Program has teamed up with Darby Creek Valley Association (DCVA) and Stroud Water Research Center to create...
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The Campaign for Rushton Woods Preserve
THE NEED HAS NEVER BEEN GREATERFor over forty years, land conservation has been a primary focus of our mission resulting...
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Nature at Night: Native Plants for Your Landscape
What if you treated your backyard as a piece of the larger mosaic of a habitat and added native plants...
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Willistown Conservation Trust Welcomes 12 Student Interns This Season
Internships are an integral part of Willistown Conservation Trust’s (WCT) work. Each year hardworking students join our team and bring...
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VOLUNTEER SPOTLIGHT: Joan Swirsky
Since the Willistown Conservation Trust (WCT) stewardship team began our weekly volunteer days last year, Joan has been our most...
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Sharpen Your Knife Skills for Spring Cooking!
We are thrilled to welcome chef Donna Laveran back to the Rushton Conservation Center and resume our sustainable cooking series!...
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American Woodcock
American Woodcock. Photo by Mike Rosengarten. American Woodcock (Scolopax Minor) An Interview with Lisa Williams, Ruffed Grouse, American Woodcock, and Webless...
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Nature at Night: Ornithology 101 (Part 1&2)
Join Blake Goll, Education Programs Manager, for a virtual two-part session that introduces the study of birds. We will begin...
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The Wonderful Women of Willistown!
Celebrating Women in Conservation: Past, Present, and Future Willistown Conservation Trust Co-Founders Alice Hausmann and Bonnie Van Alen. This March...
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For the Love of Birds
Join Blake Goll, Education Programs Manager, for a virtual session that introduced birds through the lens of why we love...
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