A Beginner’s Guide to Nature Journals
A stand of trees in Tinker’s Creek State Nature Preserve What is a Nature Journal? At its core, a nature journal is a journal about nature. It starts with a…
Sensible Salting for a Healthy Winter
As the winter season blankets our region in snow and ice, Tinker’s Creek Watershed Partners reminds our community of the importance of sensible salting practices to protect our watershed’s health…
The Doo’s and Don’ts of Pet Waste
Our waterways are an essential part of our lives that affect our lands, communities and environment. Clean water is crucial to our health and water pollution jeopardizes that entirely. Clean…
Planting Trees for Cleaner Stormwater
When rain falls on forests, fields, and other natural areas, much of it soaks into the ground. But when rain falls on rooftops, roads, driveways, and parking lots, it becomes…
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…
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…
Rain Barrels and Cisterns
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…