{"id":26634,"date":"2025-03-28T13:50:06","date_gmt":"2025-03-28T13:50:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/?p=26634"},"modified":"2025-03-28T13:50:06","modified_gmt":"2025-03-28T13:50:06","slug":"montgomery-county-conservation-district-holds-site-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/?p=26634","title":{"rendered":"Montgomery County Conservation District Holds Site Tour"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_26635\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-26635\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-26635\" src=\"http:\/\/pacd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Montgomery-Live-Staking-300x226.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"226\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pacd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Montgomery-Live-Staking-300x226.jpg 300w, https:\/\/pacd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Montgomery-Live-Staking-1024x771.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/pacd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Montgomery-Live-Staking-768x578.jpg 768w, https:\/\/pacd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Montgomery-Live-Staking-1536x1156.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/pacd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Montgomery-Live-Staking-2048x1542.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-26635\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">MCCD, PSU Master Watershed Stewards, and Perkiomen Valley Trout Unlimited volunteers install native live stakes as part of a larger streambank stabilization and habitat improvement project along Perkiomen Creek at Camelot Park in Upper Hanover Township, Montgomery County. Photo provided by MCCD.<\/p><\/div>\r\n\r\n<p>In February, Montgomery County Conservation District (MCCD) presented a nonpoint source pollution prevention and watershed awareness program to Penn State Master Watershed Stewards from Bucks and Montgomery Counties. In March, the district co-led a site tour with native live stake harvesting and installation, as well as with Penn State Master Watershed Stewards. The site tour was co-led with the Perkiomen Valley Trout Unlimited Chapter.<\/p>\r\n<p>The project was funded by PACD&#8217;s Nonpoint Source Pollution Prevention Mini-grant Program.<\/p>\r\n<p><em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-24933\" src=\"http:\/\/pacd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/epa_logo-2-275x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"63\" height=\"69\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pacd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/epa_logo-2-275x300.jpg 275w, https:\/\/pacd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/epa_logo-2.jpg 336w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 63px) 100vw, 63px\" \/>Financial and other support for this project is provided by the Pennsylvania Association of Conservation Districts, Inc. through a grant from the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection under Section 319 of the Clean Water Act, administered by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.<\/em><\/p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In February, Montgomery County Conservation District (MCCD) presented a nonpoint source pollution prevention and watershed awareness program to Penn State Master Watershed Stewards from Bucks and Montgomery Counties. In March, the district co-led a site tour with native live stake harvesting and installation, as well as with Penn State Master Watershed Stewards. The site tour [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mini-grant","category-nonpoint-source"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26634","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26634"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26634\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}