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!

End of the Year Creek Clean Up!

QV Creekers were asked to help clean up a local stream that was used as a dump site for years!  Creekers hulled out trash, tires and various large articles such as washers, barrels  etc... that were sent off to the scrap yard!

Creek Connections Conference at Camp Kon-o-kwee

QV Creekers had a great time at the Creek Connections symposium at Camp Kon-o-kwee on April 19th 2013!  Creekers opened the conference with their documentary about the Jefferson Salamanders Project in Bell Acres!  Later the creekers ran their own focus group activity to educate the younger audience at the conference about PA mammals found in and around our PA watersheds!  We finished the day with a trip to the high ropes course and climbing barn at Camp Kon-o-kwee!  What a great day!