Conservation Directory 2009-2010
Contact information for more than 100 federal, state, county, and local conservation organizations. |
Our unique facility
How a 120-year old barn that was about to be lost to development got a second life as the headquarters of the Westmoreland Conservation District, and became a model for recycled and conservation building practices. |
Stormwater Manual
3.92 MB
A guide for managing one of our county's most valuable natural resources. |
Conservation Campus
A look at the
alternative energy
and green building features in place in
the three distinct buildings on our campus. Includes geothermal heating and cooling, wind and solar power, and green building technologies.
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A Guide for Identifying & Controlling Common Noxious & Invasive Weeds In Southwestern Pennsylvania
0.98 MB
Features color photos, characteristics and control methods. |
60 Things You
Can Do To Conserve This Place We
Call Home: Westmoreland
County booklet
1MB
Take a canvas bag
along when you go shopping…give a watershed association membership for a friend’s birthday…replace your light bulbs with compact fluorescents. These are just some of the easy, inexpensive things you can do to make a difference for conservation! |
A Field Guide to Common Aquatic Plants of Pennsylvania
This informational guide details more than 40 common plants found in ponds and waterways, offering a written description, drawing, and photograph for each.
Produced by the Penn State College of Agricultural Sciences |
Brinkerton Abandoned Mine Drainage (AMD) Treatment System Fact Sheet - Sewickley Creek Watershed Association
About halfway between Armbrust and United, in the small rural town of Brinkerton, is the largest abandoned coal mine discharge in the entire Sewickley Creek Watershed.
Water has been flowing out of the mine and into Sewickley Creek at a rate of 2,000 to 4,000 gallons per minute, depending on the time of the year, for nearly five decades.
This fact sheet gives more information on this significant discharge and the ongoing efforts of a number of conservation organizations to remedy it.
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