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Teaching Kids About Big Mussels and Hellbenders

Pennsylvania streams have been used and abused since Europeans arrived: damming tributaries for water power, using nearly every waterway for sewage and industrial waste, and draining mining and agricultural runoff laced with acids and nutrients.  That’s why I find the French Creek watershed in northwest Pennsylvania so fascinating.  It is so clean and undamaged it is called a “colonial stream” – that is, its exceptional biodiversity and water quality have remained largely unchanged since the Colonial era.

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