Cacapon Institute -
From the Cacapon to the Potomac to the Chesapeake Bay, we protect rivers and
watersheds using science and education.
As Fact Finders, we conduct research to gain insight into watershed issues of
local and regional importance.
As Educators,
we work to create a future where a stream without a buffer looks as out
of place as a smoker in a conference room looks today. To foster that
vision, our environmental education efforts focus on students first and,
through them, the larger community.
As Problem Solvers, we seek
innovative solutions to environmental problems.
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Environmental Forums
The
2010 Stream Cleaner
Environmental Forum runs
from
March 15 to April 22, 2010.
For over five weeks
students will join classmates and students from other Chesapeake Bay
watershed schools in exploring one of the most complex environmental
problems ever to confront the United States - saving the Chesapeake Bay
from decades of pollution.
The lessons are posted now,
and
classes are strongly encouraged to begin the lessons as soon as they
can. Take a look by clicking on the phone in
the High School.
Click
here
to learn more about eForums or sign up to participate.
Click
here
to see a participating school list and a map as of 2/5/2010.
Participating schools also have a chance to receive technical
and financial support to design and implement their own
real-world best management practice projects -
like these.
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Oh Deer! 2009. Classes from West
Virginia, Virginia, Maryland, and Pennsylvania
participated.
Classes sought a consensus
approach
to deer population management that strikes an acceptable balance
between people, deer, and the environment.
*To help students visualize
some problems caused by too many deer, we
created a short Flash
slide show about deer impacts on our
forested lands (at right). |
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5/27/09. CI's eSchool is a
winner! We entered
the Potomac Highlands Watershed School part of our website in the
Adobe-TechSoup
2009
Show Your Impact design contest, and we won
the Environmental Impact: Other Media category. Take a look at our
entry and all the other deserving winners at the
Show Your Impact website.
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April 13,
2009. Benthic Macroinvertebrate activities debut
in the Potomac Highlands watershed School. Go to any
classroom in the eSchool, then
click on the BMI Poster to enter the benthic portal.
For a taste of
the stunning new illustrations by Jennifer Gillies,
click on the photo at left to met the "Cast of Characters."
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Deer
exclusion fencing experiment is testing a relatively low cost method to protect riparian forest plantings from
severe damage from deer browsing.
Read about the WV PTS Forested Riparian Buffer Demonstration Project.
2nd & 3rd year results posted.
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Support Cacapon Institute!
Report a Fish Kill!
*Spring
Run Studies
*Farmers as Producers of Clean Water Project.
*Explore
real-time data from throughout the Chesapeake Bay Watershed
School Projects Webpage.
Also accessible from eSchool classrooms.
Potomac Headwaters Leaders of Watersheds (PHLOW)
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