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Registration is Open for POWR's First Webinar of 2023: Riparian Buffers...Not Just for Water Quality Tuesday, January 17 at 6 PM
By now you are likely aware of the critical role that riparian, or streamside, buffers play in improving and maintaining high quality waters in our rivers and streams. Yet, this is only part of the story.
Meadows and forests adjacent to waterways also serve as important habitat and migration corridors for many of Pennsylvania’s native land (and air) based animals! Knowing and understanding these additional benefits can help you engage and inspire more people in your community by tapping into the issues and creatures they may care most about.
During this free webinar, staff of the PA Game Commission and volunteers of Bird Town Pennsylvania will share their expert knowledge about mammal and bird species that use these habitats to feed, breed and raise young, take cover from predators, and migrate seasonally from their summer to winter homes. There will also be plenty of time for conversations and questions.
Register today to make sure you get the Zoom link. Deadline to register is 4 PM on Monday January 16.
This event is FREE, but registration is required.
Photo courtesy of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Resources and Links from the Conversation Café: A peer learning opportunity on meeting the challenges of local government engagement
During the Café attendees had the opportunity to hear and share a current experience, challenge or opportunity related to engaging with state or local government officials, or with a policy, plan, or initiative. Participants asked questions and shared advice, ideas, and resources. Topics discussed included working collaboratively with Bird Town PA, understanding the impacts and adverse affects of light pollution and how to minimize them, effectively (and patiently) introducing council to the idea of an EAC, and much more.
Click HERE for links to many resources, articles, ordinances, and a documentary about climate change created by one of the café attendees.
Recording Available for Technology and Tips for Volunteer Management Webinar
If you missed this presentation on volunteer management best practices including volunteer engagement methods, best online tools for tracking time and activities, volunteer coordinator job descriptions, and why tracking volunteer participation matters for donors and stakeholders, contact tmacarthur@pecpa.org to request the recording.
Recording Available For: Managing Invasive Species and Overgrown Landscapes with Goats
Missed the presentation about managing the fast-growing, pervasive, and invasive Japanese Knotweed using goats?
Contact tmacarthur@pecpa.org to request a link to the recording.
Recording available for webinar:
How to Make Instagram Work For You!
POWR hosted staff of Resource Media to answer your questions about Instagram and help you get started using it.
To request a link to the recoding, contact tmacarthur@pecpa.org
Recording Available for "Effective Donor and Member Marketing and Outreach" webinar?
In September, POWR hosted Brenda Costa, Executive Director of the French Creek Valley Conservancy for a Lunch and Learn webinar.
Brenda shared outreach and marketing tips, ideas, and tools that can be used and applied by any organization to more effectively engage new and existing members, volunteers, and donors.
Not only do organizations benefit from increased public support, but our waterways and watersheds do, too.
What can effective, targeted, creative marketing and outreach do for you? Listen to the recording and find out!
Please email tmacarthur@pecpa.org
POWR thanks our webinar training series sponsor: 
That's a Wrap! 2022 Regional Workshop for Watershed Organization Leaders and Volunteers Have Been Completed.
Thank you to all of you who attended a watershed workshop in your region and to all who volunteered time to present and share resources. Below you will find PDFs of many of the presentations- whether you want to review content you already heard or see what you missed, if you were unable to attend.
Again, we thank our workshop supporters: 
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A Brief Introduction to Continuous Instream Monitoring in the Susquehanna River Basin: Click HERE
Stream and Floodplain Restoration in Bull Run Watershed: Click HERE
Pennsylvania DEP’s Environmental Justice Policy: Click HERE
National Fish and Wildlife Foundation Funding Programs: Click HERE
Successes, Impacts, and Opportunities of the Allegheny WINs: Click HERE
Erosion and Sediment Control/Water Encroachment: Click HERE
Thank you for attending the
Statewide Watershed Conference
Watershed Connections:
Adaptability, Resiliency, and Innovation
You can still watch recorded sessions on Facebook
Featured conference image is a photo courtesy of Chesapeake Bay Program.
Copies of the full program with session descriptions and speaker bios can be purchased for $5 each. Contact Tali MacArthur to request that a copy be mailed to you.
POWR thanks these Sponsors:
Reception and Luncheon Sponsor: Pennsylvania American Water
Watershed Leader: PA Environment Digest
Watershed Advocate: Appalachian Region Independent Power Producers Association (ARIPPA), ARM Group LLC, BEG Group LLC, Chesapeake Legal Alliance, Ernst Conservation Seeds, Susquehanna River Basin Commission, Ecotone Ecological Restoration
Carbon Offset/Sustainability: American Dairy Association North East
Nonprofit Friend: American Rivers, Keep Pennsylvania Beautiful, Stroud Water Research Center, Trout Unlimited, Middle Susquehanna RIVERKEEPER, and Lower Susquehanna RIVERKEEPER
We would also like to thank our supporters: The Pennsylvania Departments of Conservation and Natural Resources and Environmental Protection, the Campbell Foundation, and the Foundation for Pennsylvania Watersheds.
You also can still access many of the presentations from POWR’s 2019 conference
POWR’s Training and Learning Webinars
Throughout the year, POWR hosts webinars at lunch or in the early evening on a topic of interest to CWOs. To date these have included presentations on geology, volunteer management, water quality reports, the stream redesignation process, river histories, conservation tools, POWR’s insurance program, and more.
Missed one of our webinars? Watch the recording on POWR’s YouTube channel. Videos are “unlisted,” so please click on the titles below to access the recorded webinar.
Volunteer Motivations, Management, Recruitment, and Retention
Connecting River Histories to Current Conservation Efforts
Stream Redesignation Evaluations and Water Quality Designations
Attracting Media Coverage for Your Activities and Initiatives
Fundamentals of Drinking Water for Watershed Organizations
Integrated Water Quality Report and Mapping Application Webinar 2019
Databases for Watershed Group Volunteer and Member Management
Conservation Opportunity Area Tool Webinar
POWR's General Liability Insurance Program
Linking Stream Hydrology/Geomorphology to Restoration
POWR’s 2020 Regional Workshops
POWR has wrapped up Regional Workshops for 2020. Thank you for joining us!
