Non-EPA Local Outreach Programs

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Delaware

Brake for Ducks: protecting the wildfowl population - Selbeyville

Delaware Nature Society Volunteer Programs - Hockessin

Retired and Senior Volunteer Programs of Delaware

White Clay Watershed Association, New Castle County

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District of Columbia

Retired and Senior Volunteer Programs of Washington, DC

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Maryland

Central Maryland Heritage League - Middletown

Eyes of Paint Branch: Conservation, Education, and Action for the Paint Branch, a tributary of the Anacostia River.

Retired and Senior Volunteer Programs of Maryland

Save Our Streams: A leading advocate for protecting and restoring
Maryland's 17,000 miles of streams since 1970.

Students for Environmental Action (SEA): A student run environmental group at Johns Hopkins University

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Pennsylvania

The Alliance Citizen Monitoring program is a regional network of more than 145 trained volunteers who perform weekly water quality tests that help track the condition of waters flowing toward the Chesapeake Bay. These dedicated volunteers monitor rivers across the Chesapeake region in Pennsylvania, Maryland and Virginia. Some have worked with the Alliance for more than ten years, watching their rivers through the seasons and regularly submitting the valuable data they collect.

Darby Creek Valley Association Watershed Monitoring - Philadelphia

Delaware Riverkeeper Network Volunteer Programs

Friends of Rexmont Dam - Lebanon

Friends of the Wissahickon - Philadelphia

Greater Philadelphia Clean Cities Program - Philadelphia

Green Valleys Association - oversees all five of the northern and eastern Chester County's Schuylkill River Watersheds

Heritage Conservancy - Doylestown

The Manada Conservancy is a land trust--a local, non-profit membership
organization dedicated to the protection and preservation of the natural, historic, agricultural and scenic resources of the Manada and Swatara Creek basins in Pennsylvania's Dauphin and Lebanon Counties.

Mid-Atlantic Karst Conservancy : "Preserving the Caves of Today for the Cavers of Tomorrow"

Natural Lands Trust - Philadelphia

PA Bureau of Watershed Conservation Citizens' Volunteer Monitoring Program

PA Department of Conservation and Natural Resources' (DCNR) Conservation Volunteer Program

PA Environmental Council: "promotes sustainable use of our land and natural resources, protection of watersheds, and innovative solutions to long-standing problems."

PA Horticultural Society

PA Senior Environmental Corps, an environmental alliance for senior involvement

PennPIRG: PA Public Interest Group

Perkiomen Watershed Conversancy - Schwenskville

Philadelphia Cares Volunteer Program

Philadelphia Herpetological Society

Philadelphia Mineralogical Society

Retired and Senior Volunteer Programs of Pennsylvania

Riverbend Environmental Education Center Volunteer Program - Gladwyne, PA

Stream Watch - Volunteer Water Monitoring Program on the Pocono Plateau

Western Pennsylvania Conservancy: - "Saving the Places We Care About"

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Virginia

Fairfax Releaf: Organization of volunteers who plant and preserve trees, improve community appearance, and restore habitat on public and commons lands in Northern Virginia

Retired and Senior Volunteer Programs of Virginia

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West Virginia

Retired and Senior Volunteer Programs of West Virginia

West Virginia Land Trust: - Protecting West Virginia's wild and rural landscapes through private initiative.

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