Thank you to Dr Catie Hanna (Robert Morris University Bio Dept.) for sponsoring the QV Creeker's meeting on December 8th 2014. Creekers visited RMU labs and dissected 2 turkey crops to search for evidence of salamander predation. No salamanders were found but we did discover 2 species of land snails. Check out the pics. QV Creekers will be on break until after the New Year ! We also ran some microbiology tests on our 5 sites along the watershed.

Saving the Sallies!
On Monday October 20th 2014, QV Creekers and volunteers from the LSC waterhed Assoc. continued to build a new fence around the sewage tanks in Belll Acres to protect the Jefferson salamanders, Wood Frogs and Spotted Salamander Populations from falling in! This wall will be stronger than our aluminum flashing that we have used in the past and is made of wood!  We will continue to monitor the salamander populations this coming spring!  We would like to thank the Sewickley Academy Creek Club for their help on this project as well as Amy Miller from Allegheny County Conservation District and Laura Branby from Creek Connections.

QV Creekers are Back for 2014 - 2015!

QV Creekers have returned for the 2014 - 2015 school year!  This is our 6th year!  Thank you to the Little Sewickley Creek Watershed Association in Sewickley PA and Creek Connections out of Allegheny College in Meadville, PA for sponsoring our group!  

We started the year with our annual training at Walker Park on October 7th 2014.  We will keep you posted on upcoming projects and data collection in our watershed.

Tie Dye T Shirt Time!  Getting Ready for the Creek Connections Conference on April 4th 2014! 

We will be sharing our projects about the undamming of Little Sewickley Creek and the Saw Whet Owl Project with students from all over the western Pennsylvania!

 QV Creekers are working hard on their projects for the Creek Connections symposium 2014! Check it out!

Eric and Group are working on replica of Woodland Dam

Working on using bird bands for our banding activity

Launching stuffed birds into our mist net from Powdermill

Setting up a mist net can be tricky!

Poster work for the Creek Connections Symposium

Owl ID Game for the Creek Connections symposium

QV Creekers are back for 2013/2014 and are working on a lot different projects this year.  Including a new project helping Bob Mulvihill from the National Aviary to collect some data on Saw Whet Owls in our area!  We weren't sure if they were migrating through our area...but sure enough we caught some this fall!