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Riparian Setbacks and Conservation Development

Download and view Amy Brennan's presentation (PowerPoint, 13.4 MB) from the March 4, 2008 Watersheds Spring Training meeting. Using photographs and case studies, Amy delineates concise and helpful principles from her work with Chagrin River Watershed Partners. In this slideshow you will learn about riparian and wetland setbacks including what makes them good management choices and how to go about planning and implementing them.

Stream Restoration: Knowing Your Role

Download and view Jason Brown's presentation (Powerpoint file format, 5.6 MB) from the March 4, 2008 Watersheds Spring Training meeting. The presentation delineates and explains various roles that watershed coordinators play in restoration projects. This information is based on Jason's lived experiences during a stream restoration project, but the lessons can be applied across a wide range of watershed coordinator activities.

Sugar Creek Nutrient Trading Program

The Sugar Creek Headwaters Project has established something new in Ohio. Beginning in 2005, a nutrient trading program was instituted in the Sugar Creek Watershed, located in east-central Ohio. The purpose of the program is to reduce phosphorous pollution released from industrial and agricultural sources in the watershed. More about the Sugar Creek nutrient trading program…

Rain Gardens: Putting Landscapes to Work

The Euclid Creek Watershed in Cuyahoga County is applying innovative solutions to an old challenge faced by many urbanized watersheds: relatively few acres of green space combined with the need to reduce stormwater runoff. One of these solutions is use of rain gardens to reduce storm water runoff and remove urban pollutants such as sediment, metals, and phosphorous. More about the Euclid Creek Watershed's rain garden project...

(Image courtesy of Maplewood, Minnesota)

Mahoning River Consortium: Preserving the Mosquito Creek Corridor

The Mahoning River Consortium (MRC) acquired 100.5 acres of land along Mosquito Creek in Howland Township. (Featured December 17, 2004 - May 18, 2005.) More about the MRC's efforts...

Canoe and Kayak Tour of the Blanchard River

As one of the first activities of the newly-formed Blanchard River Watershed Council (BRWC), about 12 Hancock County residents spent paddled down the Blanchard River in canoes and kayaks. (Featured July 8 - December 16, 2004.) Read "River Rovers Take a Look at Blanchard" by Michelle Reiter, originally in The Courier (6/26/2004).

Log and Pole Structures at Ales Run in the Duck Creek Watershed

Employees from the Oversight and Inspection Office (OIO) of the Office of Surface Mining’s Appalachian Regional Coordinating Center participated in an Earth Day to construct log and pole sediment control structures at the Ales Run Wildlife Area. (Featured March 2 - July 7, 2004.) More about the Ales Run project...

Huff Run Fall Tour

The Huff Run Watershed Restoration Partnership (HRWRP) held a tour of the watershed for local citizens, local government officials, the press, and agency professionals on October 9, 2003. (Featured December 8, 2003 - March 2, 2004.) More about the Huff Run Fall Tour...

RiverScape 2003 - Celebrating the Cuyahoga River

RiverScape was held September 6th in Mantua, Ohio. Partners representing the Upper Cuyahoga River Watershed Task Force, with OSU Extension leading the effort, came together to educate the general public about water resource protection. (Featured October 15 - December 8, 2003.) More about RiverScape 2003...

A Walk on the Wild Side.

A program called "A Walk on the Wild Side" brought members of the Boys and Girls Clubs of Columbus to High Banks Metro Park to learn what creatures are living in the Olentangy River. (Featured August 15 - October 15, 2003.) More about "A Walk on the Wild Side"...