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.

Welcome!

The 2008 Stream Cleaner Environmental Forum is ending.

Students from 10 schools in 3 states are currently participating in the SCE Forum, and have done a tremendous amount of thoughtful work seeking solutions to the Bay watershed's problems.  The first consensus papers are posted.  You can see by clicking on the phone in the High School classroom.  Click here to learn more and/or sign up for the Stream Cleaner eForum.  Download a flyer (75 KB PDF) about the SCE Forum here.  

Jeffrey Lape, Director of the Chesapeake Bay Program, welcomes participants: "Thank you for your participation.  We cannot wait to see the solutions you discover."

New - Potomac Headwaters Leaders of Watersheds (PHLOW)

Updated 12/7/07.  Deer exclusion fencing experiment is designed to test an relatively low cost method to protect riparian forest plantings from severe damage from deer browsing.

Farmers as Producers of Clean Water Project is here.

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Report a Fish Kill here! 

Click here to read about the WV PTS Forested Riparian Buffer Demonstration Project.  2nd & 3rd year results posted.

View a slide show of the first 15 structures installed for the Stream Flow Restoration Project. 

Take a tour of CI's e-School -

The Potomac Highlands Watershed School

Hint: a fast connection helps.

 

Website last updated on 5/1/2008 by N. Gillies

 

Cacapon Institute - From the Cacapon to the Potomac to the Chesapeake Bay, we protect rivers and watersheds using science and education.

Cacapon Institute
PO Box 68
High View, WV 26808
304-856-1385 (tele)
304-856-1386 (fax)
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W. Neil Gillies, Executive Director
Frank Rodgers, Education/Outreach

Website  made possible by funding from The Norcross Wildlife Foundation,  USEPA, The MARPAT Foundation, and our generous members.