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Euclid Creek Blog

Various Tick Species and Sizes.  Photo credit: Portage Health System

Spring brings with it warm weather, beautiful scenery and wonderful outdoor activities that we look forward to during the cold winter months. However, Spring also means Tick Season which brings with it the various diseases that they may be carrying, including the dangerous, sometimes fatal Powassan Virus Disease (POW). The Powassan Virus is most prevalent in the Northeast and... read more

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Damage to Valley Parkway in the Cleveland Metroparks Mill Stream Run Reservation as a result of the May 12, 2014 flood.

Next Tuesday will mark the 1-year anniversary of the storm that dropped nearly 5-inches of rain over a 6 hour period during the evening of May 12, 2014. Concentrated mostly in southwest Cuyahoga County and Northern Medina County, the storm left in its wake lasting images of flooded roads, parking lots and basements, scoured stream channels and damaged... read more

Leaving a 25' vegetated buffer helps stream health.  So keep mowing further than in this instance.

With Earth Day and Arbor Day celebrations of last week fresh in our minds, there is much we can do around our own yard to help the environment and our local water quality - like planting native plants, and reducing our use of fertilizers, insecticides and herbicides. But those of us who live on a stream have a... read more

Ken Messinger Rapport, Carolyn Sugiuchi, Chris Vild and Virginia Aveni - FOEC members busy at work preparing for the fundraiser

Friends of Euclid Creek held our first big fundraiser on Friday, April 24 at Acacia Reservation in Lyndhurst. 93 generous Friends of Euclid Creek supporters enjoyed a great evening and raised nearly $2,500 to support education and outreach and to add to the Land Conservation Fund to protect sensitive land in the watershed! What a great evening we had... read more

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