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WaterFaire at Panhandle Earth Day Saturday, April 21 at 10 am – 7 pm Sam Michaels Park 1516 Job Corps Rd, Harpers Ferry, West Virginia 25442 Do you drink water? Cook with it, and wash with it? Give it to your pet? Want to have some fun learning your watershed address and how to keep […]

The Eastern Panhandle Conservation District, in partnership with the West Virginia Conservation Agency, West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection, Elks Run Watershed Group, and EPA’s Chesapeake Bay Program is offering a “Residential Rain Garden Rebates” program in the Elks Run Watershed to promote the installation of rain gardens in order to reduce the amount of […]

Learn the basics of Rain Gardens, see functioning examples, and learn about a program available in the Elks Run Watershed that will help residents install their own!  Interested in rain gardens, but can’t make it to the workshop? Let us know, and we’ll send you some information! Call Suzy Lucas at 304-263-4376 ext. 2  WORKSHOP […]

It was a blustery day at the Panhandle Earthday Celebration, but the area watershed groups were well-represented. Instrumental to the formation of the Elks Run Watershed Group, Suzy Lucas of the West Virginia Conservation Agency is featured in this Downstream newsreel video (link below_ walking kids through the Enviroscape, where they learn about how to create green, sustainable […]

April 23, 2014 By Jenni Vincent – Journal Staff Writer (jvincent@journal-news.net), Journal News SHENANDOAH JUNCTION – Dozens of T.A. Lowery Elementary School students got a jump on Earth Day recently when they worked with area conservationists to plant trees on their campus. That’s when representatives from the Elks Run Watershed, Cacapon Institute, Jefferson County Izaak […]