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Written by Savage River Watershed Association
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Wednesday, 18 January 2012 19:44 |
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Savage River Watershed Association members and interested persons are invited to attend the Tuesday, January 24th meeting of the Youghiogheny River Watershed Association (YRWA) in Garrett College’s CAOS building off Laker Drive at 7 PM. Guest speakers Dan Brower and Tony Prochaska of MD Department of Natural Resources will discuss the MD Stream Waders program. Stream Waders uses volunteers to monitor and assess waterway health, with the results put into the MD Biological Stream Survey (MBSS) data base. According to Smokey Stanton, YRWA President, Stream Waders is a potential structure to be used in conducting water quality baseline and continued monitoring of streams in Garrett County. The presentation will include a map developed by DNR of sites they believe ... |
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Written by Courtesy, Frostburg State University News & Media Services
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Friday, 11 November 2011 09:08 |
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The American Institute for Yemeni Studies will present “Islam in Focus: Contemporary Religion and Political Movements in North Africa and the Middle East,” a day of lectures and discussion on contemporary Islam, on Wednesday, Nov. 30, starting at 8:30 a.m. in the Atkinson Room (232) at the Lane University Center at Frostburg State University. The symposium will provide an introduction to contemporary expressions of Islam, of culture in Muslim societies and of the politics of contemporary Islamic movements.
Three scholars of the Muslim world will present topics on religion and religion’s relationship to politics from the contemporary Muslim world. Following each presentation, the entire panel will engage in an open discussion about Islam, Islamic politics and ... |
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Last Updated on Friday, 25 November 2011 07:01 |
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Written by Courtesy, Liz McDowell, SRWA
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Wednesday, 09 November 2011 07:28 |
 The Savage River Watershed Association (SRWA) will hold their regular meeting at Route 40 Elementary School on Thursday, November 17th at 7:00 p.m. The guest speaker will be Dave Kazyak, Graduate Student, Appalachian Laboratory, University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science. Mr. Kazyak will share information from his ongoing research on brook trout in the Savage River watershed in his program titled “The Savage River PIT Tagging Project”. The public is welcome to attend.
Kazyak is currently working on a large-scale collaborative project using PIT (Passive Integrated Transponder) tags to understand the life history and population ecology of native brook trout in our area. According to Kazyak, “PIT tags are basically little microchips that give off unique ... |
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Last Updated on Wednesday, 09 November 2011 07:33 |
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Written by Janice Keene
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Tuesday, 27 September 2011 08:24 |
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This fall, the Evergreen Heritage Center Foundation, in partnership with Frostburg State University, Allegany College, and Allegany County Public Schools, is offering outdoor environmental education activities for children of all ages. Participants in this environmental education program include over 600 children and youth including three-to-five-year-olds from HRDC Project Head Start, YMCA children and teens, Juvenile Services youth, and Allegany County middle school students. This collaborative program, which teaches children and youth about the relationship between the Western Watersheds and the Bay and how each of us can make a contribution to improving water quality, is funded by the Chesapeake Bay Foundation, Chesapeake Bay Trust, ... |
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Last Updated on Tuesday, 27 September 2011 08:38 |
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Written by Courtesy, Frostburg State University News & Media Services
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Sunday, 25 September 2011 08:06 |
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T he founder of the Water School, a global organization striving to provide cleaner water and better sanitation in the developing world, will speak at Frostburg State University on Wednesday, September 28. Robert Dell will present “The Water School: A Little Bit of Science, A Lot of Common Sense” in the Atkinson Room (232) of Lane University Center at 7:00 p.m. His presentation is free and open to the public.
According to the World Health Organization, 3.5 million people die each year from inadequate access to safe drinking water and poor hygiene. One and a half million of these deaths are children. These alarming facts are exactly why the Water School was formed in the first place. Its mission is provide a simple, practical and affordable method of improving the quality ... |
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