Pets: The Cuter Polluter

We love our pets, but no one loves cleaning up after them.  Picking up pet waste is an important part of being a responsible pet owner.  Pet waste has the…

Planting Trees for Cleaner Stormwater

Stormwater is water that used to soak into the ground and become ground water prior to development but runs off of impervious surfaces, collecting pollutants until it ultimately enters our…

What is Stormwater?

Stormwater is water that used to soak into the ground and become ground water prior to development but runs off of impervious surfaces, collecting pollutants until it ultimately enters our…

Sensbile Salting Practices: Tips at Home

Sensible salting practices can reduce environmental impacts from salting operations and save your community.  Simple changes in the amount and ways we salt can make a big difference. Environmental Impacts…

Sensible Salting Practices for Communities

Sensible salting practices can reduce environmental impacts from salting operations and save your community.  Simple changes in the amount and ways we salt can make a big difference. Environmental Impacts…

Importance of Protecting Riparian Areas

Land bordering streams, rivers, wetlands, ponds, and lakes are known as riparian areas and provide a number of benefits to ecosystems and society.  Riparian areas serve as a transitional zone…

Rain Gardens

Stormwater is water that used to soak into the ground and become ground water prior to development but runs off of impervious surfaces, collecting pollutants until it ultimately enters our…

Importance of Protecting Green Space

Preserving natural ecosystems has many benefits.  Healthy watersheds provide services like water filtration and storage, air filtration, carbon storage, nutrient cycling, soil formation, recreational value, food, and timber.  Yet our…

Why Plant Native?

Stormwater is water that used to soak into the ground and become ground water prior to development but runs off of impervious surfaces, collecting pollutants until it ultimately enters our…

Bioretention Areas

Stormwater is water that used to soak into the ground and become ground water prior to development but runs off of impervious surfaces, collecting pollutants until it ultimately enters our…