Stream Team- Lehigh County Open Space

Wildlands Conservancy's Stream Team maintains tree and shrub planting sites established to protect water quality and create habitat along the Lehigh Valley's waterways. 

Why Stream Team?

Repairing vegetative streamside areas, also called riparian buffers, is a science-based method to:

• Improving water quality by reducing pollutants entering waterways through runoff, providing clean drinking water for hundreds of thousands of people in local communities.
• Restoring habitat for fish and native birds by planting native vegetation that provides sustenance and cools the water temperature.
• Reducing flooding downstream.

Stream Team is an act of environmental stewardship, which is our guiding principle to protecting and restoring our critical waterways that are the lifeblood of the Lehigh Valley and Lehigh River.

Volunteers will:

• Maintain tubes placed over the trees to protect them from deer
• Remove invasive vegetation

And volunteers must:

• Be 16 years of age or older OR be accompanied by a parent/guardian if under 16
• Be able to work outside for the duration of the shift on uneven, occasionally wet ground
• Wear safe footwear and clothing that can get dirty- closed-toed shoes are required. Long pants- denim preferred- also required
• Bring any desired sunblock, insect repellent, and allergy medications

Wildlands will provide:

• Tools
• Work Gloves – participants are welcome to bring their own
• Snacks

Each week is a new location, please visit the Wildlands Conservancy event calendar for full details and to register.