Governor's Award for Watershed Stewardship
By Producer, Kelly Meinhart
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the Watershed Weekly website, produced by EFP/GreenWorks, and
the printed newsletter produced by POWR, are winners of this
year's Governor's Award for Watershed Stewardship.
 n a ceremony
hosted by Governor Mark Schweiker and DEP Secretary David E.
Hess, twenty four awards were given to this year's recipients
in the categories of: Demonstration, Education and Outreach;
Partnerships; Protection and Restoration; Assessment and Planning;
and a special award to the Watershed Stewardship Educator of
the Year.
 
he Watershed Weekly website and webcast won in the category
of Demonstration, Education and Outreach, while POWR's newsletter
won in the category of Partnerships. Mike Yeager, teacher
at Milton High School, and previously spotlighted on the Watershed
Weekly website, received the Watershed Stewardship Educator
of the Year award. Mike andhis students have a passion for
protecting Limestone Run, and have developed a project to
assess this waterway through classroom teachings and in-the-field
data collection. Under Mike's leadership, approximately 40
ninth through twelfth graders have completed a macroinvertebrate
stream assessment, a fish survey, and several chemical tests.
They also study wetlands, soils and streambank characteristics.
You can learn more about the Milton High School program by
visiting the link provided below.
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Award Recipients Include:
Pennsylvania Farm Bureau
Carbon County Groundwater Guardians
Callery Chemical Company, A Division of Mine Safety Appliances
Co.
Lancaster Township
Sarah Smith
Environmental Fund for Pennsylvania
League of Women Voters of Pennsylvania Citizen Education Fund
Eastern Pennsylvania Coalition for Abandoned Mine Reclamation
Three Rivers Habitat Partnership
Mount Pocono Municipal Authority
Stoneycreek-Conemaugh River Improvement Project
Craig R. Morgan
Conemaugh Valley Conservancy
Pennsylvania Organization for Watersheds and Rivers
Pequea Township
Horsham Township
PA CleanWays, McKean County Chapter
Berks County Conservation District
Mill Creek Coalition
Green Valleys Association
Ducks Unlimited, Inc.
Susquehanna River Basin Commission
The Academy of Natural Sciences
Schuylkill Headwaters Association, Inc.
Michael Yeager, Milton Area High School
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