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Strategic Planning Meeting June 10th

Open to all members! It is time to work on our next 5 year strategic plan. This is your chance to contribute ideas and potential goals for Evergreen! Rebecca Slak will facilitate the planning session for us on June 10th, starting at 9:00am at the PASEC office. It will be an all-day meeting with a […]


Annual Membership Picnic!

Evergreen Conservancy’s annual membership meeting will be on Tuesday, June 28th at 5pm at our Tanoma AMD Environmental Center. Please bring any salad, desert, side dish, main dish, or homemade specialty. The conservancy will provide drinks and grill hot dogs and hamburgers. Be sure to bring your own table setting! We will have a short membership meeting for nominating and electing board members, […]


Tour of the New Trompe at Tanoma!

Evergreen Conservancy was awarded a Growing Greener grant for the installation of a trompe at Tanoma to help the passive AMD system work more efficiently. Tim Danehy and his team from BioMost worked through the winter and spring of this year to get the system installed. Join us on June 28th at 2:00pm as Tim […]


Girl Scout Brownie Wonders of Water Journey

Evergreen volunteers teamed up with ten Brownie Girl Scouts on Saturday April 30th on completion of their WOW! Wonders of Water Journey! The program included a tour of our Tanoma AMD treatment system, a hands-on activity in which the girls attempted to remove natural and man-made pollution from their own miniature “lakes”, lively discussions about why we LOVE water and how we […]


Project Wet Workshop

Evergreen Conservancy hosted the all day “Project Wet” workshop on May 21st at Yellow Creek’s Environmental Learning Center. A fun day was had by all participants. We learned a lot of new water-related ideas and activities we can now offer as part of our environmental education programs. Stacey Robertson, Tara Binion, Sara Beatty and Cindy […]


Spring Tick Program a Great Success!

The 2016 spring program Evergreen offered on ticks had the biggest crowd we’ve ever had, at over 100 people. Ticks are a topic so many people are interested in. Dr.’s Tom and Anne Simmons, along with IUP students, gave a very interesting presentation with a lot of good information. Using a good tick repellent, wearing light […]


Trompe goes on line at Tanoma

Our new Trompe system went on line this week at Tanoma. It still needs a little tweaking and they will be working on it for another week or so but it is an incredible feat of construction! Thanks to Tim Danehy and his crew for all their hard work. We hope to see major improvements […]