Celebrate Success

Spotlight on Success

Community Watershed Organization volunteer and staff leaders, along with key partner organizations and agencies, work together to accomplish great things for local watersheds and rivers. From streamside and in-stream habitat restoration projects, invasive species removal, and trash clean-ups to watershed educational events for youth and families and river paddling sojourns, a CWO near you is making the watershed a cleaner and healthier place to fish, explore, enjoy, recreate, and live.

Each month, we will feature a Spotlight on Success- a story about a member watershed organization or partnership that is working hard to improve the quality of a local stream, raise awareness and understanding of a key watershed issue, or provide an opportunity for engagement and recreation along a waterway.

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An archive of previous Spotlight on Success stories can be found below.

York County Master Watershed Stewards and Local High School Students Plant Trees for Stream Health

April of 2022, volunteers including local students and Master Watershed Stewards planted 1,500 trees on the property of Northeastern High School, located in York County, PA, finishing a large-scale riparian buffer project across 23 acres of land. This project aimed to stabilize the banks of Hartman Run (the stream that runs through the property), filter pollutants, prevent erosion, and add species diversify near large span of lawn adjacent to the school. The most exciting aspect of this project, however, is that the idea originated in a classroom just minutes away from the site. POWR had the chance to chat with Mark Lentz, the Assistant Coordinator for the Master Watershed Steward (MWS) program in York County about his role in this riparian buffer project, as well as the other great work that the York County Stewards are doing.