by Earth Conservancy | May 13, 2016 | Community, Education, Greenspace, Watershed Restoration
With work underway on the Askam Borehole AMD Treatment System wayside exhibit with students from Solomon/Plains Jr. High School, support for the project continues to grow. Earth Conservancy is the proud recipient of a nearly $5,000 grant from Luzerne County’s...
by Earth Conservancy | May 7, 2016 | Reclamation
Earth Conservancy is pleased to announce it has received a $734,600 Growing Greener grant from the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection for Phase II of its Bliss Bank reclamation. The project will reclaim another 54 acres of the mine-scarred property...
by Earth Conservancy | May 7, 2016 | Community, Education, Greenspace
Earth Conservancy was pleased to receive a environmental education grant for $2,996 from the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection to assist in development of its wayside exhibit at the Askam Borehole AMD Treatment System. Design work is already...
by Earth Conservancy | May 6, 2016 | Community, Education
Earth Conservancy had the chance to talk about its work to mitigate acid mine drainage on Friday, May 6th, with hundreds of students at Dr. David W. Kistler Elementary School in Wilkes-Barre. Check out some of the excellent AMD-inspired poems they put...
by Earth Conservancy | Apr 29, 2016 | Community, Education
Despite the damp and the chill, hundreds of area students turned out to celebrate Earth Day along the Susquehanna in Nesbitt Park on April 29, 2016. At EC’s station, we discussed our ongoing work to treat acid mine drainage in local waterways –...
