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Author: Chris Bunn

Enhance Water Quality by Repairing Your Local Stream Banks

Posted on April 6, 2025 by Chris Bunn

What’s Up, Watershed, April Edition “Live staking” offers a free and easy way to protect our streams from pollution, create wildlife habitat, and ease flooding in our communities My favorite …

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Become an Environmental Steward This Spring with the Help of Our New Website!

Posted on March 3, 2025 by Chris Bunn

What’s Up, Watershed, March Edition These Three Features Give You the Tools Needed to Green Up Your Community! This past Monday when I was sitting at my desk, I was …

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Help Protect Our Water Using This New Website!

Posted on February 3, 2025 by Chris Bunn

What’s Up, Watershed, February Edition Did you know that during a one-inch rainstorm, the roof of your home can generate hundreds of gallons of stormwater? During a storm, water from …

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Winter Sowing: A Cheap, Easy, and Efficient Way To Start Seeds

Posted on January 3, 2025 by Chris Bunn

What’s Up, Watershed, January Edition Winter is a great time of year to hunker down, rest, and chill out (hah, get it?).  You may be of the opinion that gardening …

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GO GREEN this holiday season — PRC “Greening Guide” shows you how!

Posted on December 9, 2024 by Chris Bunn

The holiday season is filled with sparkling decorations, beautifully wrapped packages, get-togethers with family and friends — and plenty of waste. According to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, each American …

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Fireflies — A Magical Reason To Leave Your Leaves

Posted on November 10, 2024 by Chris Bunn

What’s Up, Watershed, November Edition Those lovely little beetles that fly around in June and light up at night…do you call them lightning bugs or fireflies?  No matter their name, …

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Trees Big and Small to Plant This Fall — Three Magnificent Tree Species to Spruce Up Your Yard

Posted on October 4, 2024 by Chris Bunn

What’s Up, Watershed, October Edition When I lived in Vermont during college, the fall was always full of energy.  Hoards of tourists would flood into the state, dubbed “leaf peepers” …

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Beautify Your Yard with These Three Native Plants!

Posted on September 4, 2024 by Chris Bunn

What’s Up, Watershed, September Edition Now that summer is coming to an end and autumn is on the horizon, adding new plants to our yards is not on the minds …

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Cool Waters: How Trees Help To Protect Pennsylvania’s State Fish

Posted on August 4, 2024 by Chris Bunn

What’s Up, Watershed, August Edition One of my favorite things to do in the summer is to swim in streams.  For me, the refreshing feeling of jumping into a cool, …

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Do YOU Know What an Immature Dragonfly Looks Like?

Posted on July 5, 2024 by Chris Bunn

Ah, summer… It’s a season full of swimming, ice cream, thunderstorms, and everyone’s favorite… BUGS!  If I had to pick a favorite insect, it would probably be the dragonfly.  Not …

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