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Watershed Stewardship - Tips For Around Your Home

Posted on 06/09/15 by in Educational Outreach

With our increasingly busy lives, protecting local waters isn't usually an issue that crosses most people’s minds. But if you value your health and the health of your surroundings then it should. Our well-being is linked to the health of our waters. Our drinking water comes directly from Lake Erie, so protecting the tributaries to the lake ultimately... read more

Bee Friendly!

Posted on 05/29/15 by Amy in Educational Outreach

Honeybees

Bee Friendly! Honeybees are under a great deal of stress lately. Honeybee populations have dropped 50% in the past 25 years. Colony collapse disorder is wiping out entire hives almost overnight. There are pests and diseases, pesticides and herbicides, genetically modified crops, lack of diversity and habitat loss that contribute to the decline of the honeybee. We’ve all heard that... read more

Tick Tips

Posted on 05/19/15 by Kelly in Educational Outreach

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

Euclid Creek News - May 2015

Posted on 05/13/15 by in Euclid Creek Watershed

To see the latest news and upcoming events sent out to the Euclid Creek email distribution list - click on the link here! read more read more

Dark and Stormy: Remembering May 12, 2014

Posted on 05/05/15 by Jared in Rocky River Watershed

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

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