Environmental Stewardship
Join us in restoring the health of the waterways!
VIDEO: Strawtown Making a Difference: Children and Community Water Advocacy
Make a Difference!
We encourage students and their family members to take part in environmental stewardship.
Over many years of working outdoors along the waterways with children, we have come to see both the beauty and the harmful impacts in our streams and rivers. Our active concern has led us to research and learn what we can do to help.
Through training with regional environmental organizations we have gained skills for leading citizen science aquatic monitoring projects.
As educators, we bring what we learn back to Strawtown’s students and our community:
- state-of-the-art science
- sustainability practices
- environmental stewardship
- community leadership
- government policy
Learning To Be a Voice for the Environment
We have become water advocacy leaders and advisors, working with regional and state officials, municipal leaders, policy makers, and environmental experts. In 2007, Director, Laurie Seeman, became a co-leader of the Rockland Water Coalition, which ran a 9 year effort and prevailed in protecting the Hudson River from an unnecessary desalination plant. In 2013 she was appointed to the Rockland County Task Force on Water Resources Management. In 2010 the Strawtown directors founded the Sparkill Creek Watershed Alliance (see below).
We are learning to live in ways that keep the big picture in mind. Together we learn where to look to take actions.
Below are links to some of our local environmental stewardship projects.
CITIZEN SCIENCE
Aquatic migration monitoring in our local stream
Sparkill Creek Watershed Alliance
Join our citizen action group for the Sparkill Creek: stream monitoring, creek cleanups, tree plantings, storm water management, and community education.
Take part in monitoring baby eels in this annual spring citizen science project (a NYS DEC Hudson River Estuary Program).
OUR LOCAL WATER ADVOCACY
County Executive Ed Day presents Laurie Seeman with the Rockland County Executive Environmental Leadership Award
We celebrate Director Laurie Seeman, who received the Rockland County Executive’s Environmental Leadership Award in April 2018!
In his award speech, County Executive Ed Day especially commended the work with the children, highlighting the significance of “nurturing the next generation of environmental advocates”.
Strawtown Director, Laurie Seeman, holds EPA Environmental Champion Award for the work of the Rockland Water Coalition, 2015, Read the Sierra Club Article “Desalination Opponents Win Top EPA Award”
A few ways to take part in the effort to protect our local drinking water
Join this citizen action group. Sign up for notices about about our water and when to take public action.
Rockland County Task Force on Water Resources Management
Join a committee. Attend monthly public meetings. Join the public effort on water conservation.
LEARN WHAT YOU CAN DO FROM HOME OR WORK
“How local activists stopped a dubious desalination plant…” Read More in this Food and Water Watch article Photo: Laurie Seeman
Cornell Cooperative Extension
  Preserving Water Quality
 Environmental Fact Sheets
US Environmental Protection Agency
 Water Research, Data, Tools, Practices
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READ THE SUSTAINABILITY COLUMN “EARTH MATTERS“
Join us in restoring the health of the waterways!
VIDEO: Strawtown Making a Difference: Children and Community Water Advocacy
Make a Difference!
We encourage students and their family members to take part in environmental stewardship.
Over many years of working outdoors along the waterways with children, we have come to see both the beauty and the harmful impacts in our streams and rivers. Our active concern has led us to research and learn what we can do to help.
Through training with regional environmental organizations we have gained skills for leading citizen science aquatic monitoring projects.
As educators, we bring what we learn back to Strawtown’s students and our community:
- state-of-the-art science
- sustainability practices
- environmental stewardship
- community leadership
- government policy
Learning To Be a Voice for the Environment
We have become water advocacy leaders and advisors, working with regional and state officials, municipal leaders, policy makers, and environmental experts. In 2007, Director, Laurie Seeman, became a co-leader of the Rockland Water Coalition, which ran a 9 year effort and prevailed in protecting the Hudson River from an unnecessary desalination plant. In 2013 she was appointed to the Rockland County Task Force on Water Resources Management. In 2010 the Strawtown directors founded the Sparkill Creek Watershed Alliance (see below).
We are learning to live in ways that keep the big picture in mind. Together we learn where to look to take actions.
Below are links to some of our local environmental stewardship projects.
Aquatic migration monitoring in our local stream
CITIZEN SCIENCE
Sparkill Creek Watershed Alliance
Join our citizen action group for the Sparkill Creek: stream monitoring, creek cleanups, tree plantings, storm water management, and community education.
Take part in monitoring baby eels in this annual spring citizen science project (a NYS DEC Hudson River Estuary Program).
Strawtown Director, Laurie Seeman, holds EPA Environmental Champion Award for the work of the Rockland Water Coalition, 2015, Read the Sierra Club Article “Desalination Opponents Win Top EPA Award”
OUR LOCAL WATER ADVOCACY
We celebrate Director Laurie Seeman, who received the Rockland County Executive’s Environmental Leadership Award in April 2018!
In his award speech, County Executive Ed Day especially commended the work with the children, highlighting the significance of “nurturing the next generation of environmental advocates”.
County Executive Ed Day presents Laurie Seeman with the Rockland County Executive Environmental Leadership Award
A few ways to take part in the effort to protect our local drinking water
Join this citizen action group. Sign up for notices about about our water and when to take public action.
Rockland County Task Force on Water Resources Management
Join a committee. Attend monthly public meetings. Join the public effort on water conservation.
“How local activists stopped a dubious desalination plant…” Read More in this Food and Water Watch article Photo: Laurie Seeman
LEARN WHAT YOU CAN DO FROM HOME OR WORK
Cornell Cooperative Extension
Preserving Water Quality
Environmental Fact Sheets
US Environmental Protection Agency
Water Research, Data, Tools, Practices
READ THE SUSTAINABILITY COLUMN “EARTH MATTERS”
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