The Wissahickon Valley Watershed Association is a 52-year-old land trust located in Ambler, PA, USA.
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- Founded:
- 1957
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Events
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- Evans-Mumbower Mill Open House...
Swedesford at Meetinghouse Roads
Sunday, November 15 at 1:00pm - WVWA Book Discussion
WVWA Barn
Wednesday, November 18 at 7:00pm
Wissahickon Valley Watershed Association A great volunteer effort to plant trees along the Wissahickon Creek in Upper Gwynedd.
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A look at some of WVWA's previous Serve the Preserve projects.
Check out the photos of the April 2008 Serve the Preserve at Bethlehem Pike and Lafayette Avenue in Fort Washington. The success of that project can be seen in the recent photo in this album.
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Enjoy this WHYY segment featuring a great WVWA friend and volunteer, Marylea Klauder.
http://www.whyy.org/widerhorizons/maryle
Source: www.whyy.org
Wissahickon Valley Watershed Association Some photos from Doug Tallamy's wonderful lecture held at Temple Ambler and a few of the Temple Ambler Arboretum gardens.
Wissahickon Valley Watershed Association Thanks to everyone who participated, volunteered and contributed to this great event!
Wissahickon Valley Watershed Association
The WVWA book selection for November 2009 is Noah's Garden: Restoring the Ecology of Our Own Backyards By Sara Bonnett Stein.
This book discussion group is free and open to the public but advanced registration is required. Participants will need to the book prior to the discussion.
Light refreshments will be provided.
Noah's Garden: Restoring the Ecology of Our Own Backyards By Sara Bonnett Stein
Time:7:00PM Wednesday, November 18th
Location:WVWA Barn
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Wissahickon Valley Watershed Association A Tiger Swallowtail being harassed by a Ruby-throated Hummingbird for being just a bit too close to the hummingbird feeder. Taken from the hawk watch platform in Ft Washington State Park.
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Lessons from the battle against colony collapse disorder, which is still decimating hives.
Wissahickon Valley Watershed Association More information on multiflora rose.
Source: www.nps.gov
DESCRIPTIONMultiflora rose is a thorny, perennial shrub with arching stems (canes), and leaves divided into five to eleven sharply toothed leaflets. The base of each leaf stalk bears a pair of fringed bracts. ...
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Richard Piacentini, executive director of Phipps Conservatory, brings his work home in his rain garden. Behind him are ironweed, left, and Helianthus.
Source: www.npr.org
When US Airways Flight 1549 made an emergency landing in the Hudson River in January after hitting geese, it turned the spotlight on so-called bird strikes — a longstanding problem of aircraft colliding with birds in flight. ...
Source: www.nytimes.com
After tests of the White House’s kitchen garden site revealed high levels of lead, workers added lime, crab meal and compost to the soil in order to improve it.
