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News from the Little Falls Watershed Alliance: December 2013
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News from the Little Falls Watershed Alliance. Monday, December 9, 2013. 60 Testify to Protect Ten Mile Creek. From our friends at Audubon Naturalist Society. We now have three allies on the Council - Elrich, Andrews, and Berliner. We are especially needing to reach out to Councilmembers Hans Reimer. Your Letters to the Editor are needed now! Report on last week's Ten Mile Creek Hearing at the MontCo Council:. Among the many highlights of the two nights of hearings (on 12/3 and 12/5):. Scott's testimony ...
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News from the Little Falls Watershed Alliance: Tallamy on Caterpillars, Song Birds and Native Plants
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News from the Little Falls Watershed Alliance. Wednesday, April 29, 2015. Tallamy on Caterpillars, Song Birds and Native Plants. What a treat to hear Doug Tallamy talk last week. Doug is the author of Bringing Nature Home: How Native Plants Sustain Wildlife in Our Gardens. Some good resources for native plant lists and sales can be found on our website at. Http:/ www.lfwa.org/bay-. Http:/ www.lfwa.org/updates/. Is an excellent source for bang-for-your-buck plant lists. Little Falls Watershed Alliance.
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News from the Little Falls Watershed Alliance: April 2014
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News from the Little Falls Watershed Alliance. Tuesday, April 29, 2014. Trash is Gone, the Watershed is Clean! April 12 was our annual watershed clean-up and it was a beautiful day for getting in the creek and getting the trash out! The officials numbers are:. 37 bags of trash. 8 bags of recycling. Miscellaneous metal pieces and car part. 64 volunteers for a total of 161 hours. We also pulled garlic mustard that day. This invasive weed was just starting to show its head, but we managed to pull 8 bags.
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News from the Little Falls Watershed Alliance: February 2014
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News from the Little Falls Watershed Alliance. Thursday, February 27, 2014. Cages in the Park - What's that All About? Enclosures in Little Falls Park? You may have noticed big fences in areas when you are walking along the path in the Park below Massachusetts and Little Falls and wondered what is being caged in. Volunteers installing a deer exclosure, one of three in the Park. These are actually "deer exclosures". And they are areas protected from deer by netting wrapped around posts. The third exclosur...
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News from the Little Falls Watershed Alliance: Dog Poop and Fecal Bacteria
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News from the Little Falls Watershed Alliance. Wednesday, January 14, 2015. Dog Poop and Fecal Bacteria. Did you know that the fecal bacteria count in the Little Falls Branch is dangerously high? Did you know that dog wastes contributes significantly to the count? Did you know that by scoop the poop and disposing of it in your toilet or trash can, you can make a difference! Dog Poop has been on a lot of people's mind lately! According to the NJ Department of Environmental Protection:. In addition to thes...
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News from the Little Falls Watershed Alliance: August 2014
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News from the Little Falls Watershed Alliance. Friday, August 29, 2014. Report from a FrogWatch Volunteer at the Vinton Park Pond. At the Vinton Park Pond, right by the Somerset Town Pool, a lone bullfrog (apparently) calls for a mate while American toads provide a more continuous background din . As part of FrogWatch USA, a national citizen science program of the. Association of Zoos and Aquariums. Http:/ frogwatch.fieldscope.org. Concerned that there seemed to be a lone (and lonely? Bullfrog, I began a...
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News from the Little Falls Watershed Alliance: We Won! Little Watershed Group Packs a BIG Punch!
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News from the Little Falls Watershed Alliance. Friday, June 20, 2014. Little Watershed Group Packs a BIG Punch! Thank you to all our supporter in yesterday's DoMore24.org fundraising frenzy. We won prizes for the most donors and for the most donations in the Environment and Community Category. That's an extra $5,000 on top of the $3,937 raised. The parks and the creeks are treasures in our densely populated and we are proud to speak for them. Thanks for helping us help the environment. Little Falls Water...
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News from the Little Falls Watershed Alliance: Equity One Releases Concept Drawings for Westbard Sector
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News from the Little Falls Watershed Alliance. Thursday, February 5, 2015. Equity One Releases Concept Drawings for Westbard Sector. This is from Robest Dyer@BethesdaRow. Posted by Info@lwfa.org. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). A Stewardship Group Dedicated to. Conserving the Little Falls Watershed. Through Education, Advocacy and Action. Click here for a map of the watershed. The Little Falls Watershed Alliance is a 501 c(3) organization. All donations are tax deductable. EPA Adopt a Watershed.
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News from the Little Falls Watershed Alliance: May 2014
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News from the Little Falls Watershed Alliance. Thursday, May 29, 2014. Have you seen this plant - Leatherleaf Mahonia? Last week, I led a weed removal work day for folks from the Marriott Corporation. We worked off of Little Falls Parkway and got a lot done. (See our Facebook page. Hopefully we can nip a full scale invasion of Leatherleaf Mahonia in the bud (so to speak). So much work to do! Posted by Info@lwfa.org. Thursday, May 1, 2014. A Meadow for Norwood Park! Dozens of volunteers have spent 100s of...
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News from the Little Falls Watershed Alliance: March 2014
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News from the Little Falls Watershed Alliance. Thursday, March 27, 2014. Planting for the Environment. The snow is gone.let's plant! Here are some local and desirable groundcover, shrub and trees to consider:. Shady Perrenials: Aster divaricatus, Eastern purple coneflower, joe pye weed, cardinal flower and monarda spp for butterflies, Sedum "autumn joy", Ginger, moss phlox, Christmas fern and bluebells for shady groundcover;. Vines - Trumpet honeysuckle for climbing floral. And we have lists online.
