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Our Mission
We inspire and engage diverse communities of people to protect, steward, and enjoy the land and waterways of the Wissahickon Valley.
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Volunteer hours supported stewardship and trails projects, and the Citizen Science and Creek Watch programs
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Students from 9 local schools participate in our environmental education program annually
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Gallons of stormwater managed by green stormwater projects annually
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The International Monarch Monitoring Blitz invites community scientists from across North America to come together with the shared goal of helping to protect and conserve the beloved and emblematic monarch butterfly. Join Senior Naturalist, Kristy Morley at one of the sessions to monitor milkweed plants for monarch eggs and caterpillars as well as adult monarch butterflies.
Community Science
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Everyone
The International Monarch Monitoring Blitz invites community scientists from across North America to come together with the shared goal of helping to protect and conserve the beloved and emblematic monarch butterfly. Join Senior Naturalist, Kristy Morley at one of the sessions to monitor milkweed plants for monarch eggs and caterpillars as well as adult monarch butterflies.
Community Science
Family Friendly
Everyone
The International Monarch Monitoring Blitz invites community scientists from across North America to come together with the shared goal of helping to protect and conserve the beloved and emblematic monarch butterfly. In 2023, 1,789 volunteers monitored more than 40,000 milkweed stems and reported 13,000 monarch sightings in support of trinational efforts to better understand the monarch butterfly’s breeding productivity, range, and timing in North America.
Community Science
Family Friendly
Everyone
Shorebirds can be a confusing group of birds to learn to identify. When faced with mudflats with thousands of brownish-gray birds, it can be challenging to know where to begin. In this program the focus will be on learning techniques you can use to identify shorebirds rather than emphasizing only key field marks for each species (although we’ll cover a few of those too!).
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Trailblazer
I love Wissahickon Trails [formerly WVWA] and what it brings to our communities - hiking, outdoor recreation, from very active running to very quiet contemplation or bird watching - it's all amazing. My hope and my goal is to keep working with them to introduce more people to this beautiful set of trails. To keep building trail connections to the neighborhoods where people live.
Harm Scherpbier, Volunteer
VolunteerWhat is a watershed?
A watershed is an area of land that channels rainfall and snowmelt to a common body of water, such as creeks, streams, and rivers. The Wissahickon watershed is 64 square miles and covers portions of Montgomery and Philadelphia counties. It is defined by the land-area where rainfall and snowmelt flows into the Wissahickon Creek and its tributaries.