Spring Creek Stream and Riparian Restoration Project at the PA Military Museum
The Spring Creek Stream Restoration and Urban Runoff Demonstration was created by a partnership between the ClearWater Conservancy, the Pennsylvania Military Museum at Boalsburg, and the Department of Environmental Protection. The project focused on restoring the stream corridor and surrounding areas using environmentally-sound practices. The restored areas function as a demonstration site to educate the community about stream restoration, management, and preservation.
Photo:
Spring Creek running through the Military Museum grounds before restoration, looking downstream from the bridge, 2000.
Photo:
Spring Creek in the same area, immediately after restoration, 2001.
Photo:
Spring Creek in
the same area,
after two growing
seasons, 2003.
View the design plan by Andropogon Associates, Ltd. (1.7M .pdf)
View the Military Museum Stream Restoration brochure (300K .pdf)
View the Military Museum Demonstration Report (1.8M .pdf)
As part of the education outreach for this project, ClearWater Conservancy created an “Exploration Station” kit for classroom teachers. The kit includes equipment and materials pertaining to stream and watershed issues. Information on topics such as watershed mapping, biodiversity, food chains, ecosystems, plant & animal identification, stream studies, and physical water testing are included. Many of the activities meet Pennsylvania State Academic Standards for Environment and Ecology.
Classroom teachers who are
interested in using the Exploration Station can reserve the kit and use it
with their students for two weeks in their classroom or on a planned trip to
the PA Military Museum.
Contact Jennifer at ClearWater Conservancy for more
information or to reserve the kit.