THE SPRING CREEK WATERSHED ATLAS

Pamela Adams, Centre Regional Planning Agency Climate change impacts everyone and those impacts are increasing in frequency and...

Lisa Schneider, Penn State Extension Master Gardener, Centre County Tom Tudek Memorial Park in Ferguson Township offers many avenues for...

Dr. James Finley, Emeritus Professor of Forest Resources, Department of Ecosystem Sciences and Management. Penn State University. Today,...

From the Pennsylvania Water Atlas “Watershed” is a generic term used to identify an area of land that drains to a particular waterbody....

By Terry Melton, Ph.D., Director, ClearWater Conservancy; Secretary, Nittany Valley Environmental Coalition Our Centre Region is blessed...

Take a walk during any season along the 4.4-mile trail winding its way along Spring Creek Canyon and you’ll be rewarded with a dizzying...

Virtually all the potable water consumed in the Centre Region is drawn from the groundwater reservoir. Even residents in the Bellefonte...

Unlike the Centre Region, most communities with a population of several thousand or more are located adjacent to a river or a large body...

Dynamic Wetlands in Time and Space: Vernal pools are wetlands that experience alternating periods of flooding and drying, and are...

A female Callibaetis mayfly from Millbrook Marsh. Aquatic invertebrates are animals without backbones that live in water. Invertebrates...

Among all the invertebrates in Spring Creek, crayfish probably have the most profound effect on the ecology of the stream, yet they are...

The Spring Creek Watershed is home to some of Pennsylvania’s most productive soils. These soils are a primary reason for the region’s...

The following article has been condensed from the publication “The Fishery of Spring Creek – A Watershed Under Siege” by Robert F....

This article was originally published by the Susquehanna River Basin Commission: State of the Susquehanna 2010 Report. Spring Creek, a...

How many wetlands occur in the Spring Creek Watershed? This is a typical question arising when considering the water resources of a...

Map of land use in the Spring Creek Watershed in 2014. By clicking on the map above, you will open it as a pdf image that you can...

Forested watersheds provide many benefits to humans. One of the most important is to provide clean, clear drinking water but forested...

The Spring Creek Watershed has two types of watershed boundaries as shown on this cross-section diagram. The surface-water boundary is on...

The Spring Creek watershed lies along the eastern edge of the Appalachian Mountains, which extend from Maine to Georgia. Geologically,the...