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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 […]


Rain garden dedication

On Wednesday, June 3 the Stormwater Education Partnership will mark the official opening of the White Township rain garden. The garden was installed last October. The rain garden is designed to capture excess stormwater, and is an example of new stormwater management practices. This event tops off a year-long effort to educate municipal and county […]