Tacony Creek Creatures: Redbreast Sunfish
Intern Emmanuel Hampton completes his Tacony Creek Creatures series with North American River Otters. Stop by the River Alive Learning Trail to see the water snake, heron, fox, painted turtle, river […]
Category: Aquatic Life
Tacony Creek Creatures: North American River Otters
Intern Emmanuel Hampton continues his Tacony Creek Creatures series with North American River Otters. Stop by the River Alive Learning Trail to see the water snake, heron, fox, painted turtle, river […]
Tacony Creek Creatures: Northern Water Snakes
Intern Emmanuel Hampton continues his Tacony Creek Creatures series with Northern Water Snakes. Stop by the River Alive Learning Trail to see the water snake, heron, fox, painted turtle, and other […]
Tacony Creek Creatures: Painted Turtles
Intern Emmanuel Hampton continues his Tacony Creek Creatures series with the Painted Turtle! You can see this creature in Tacony Creek, at the Learning Trail, and painted on the Tacony Creek […]
Tacony Creek Creatures: Great Blue Herons
Intern Emmanuel Hampton continues his Tacony Creek Creatures series with our mascot, the Great Blue Heron! You can see this awe-inspiring bird in the creek and flying above the park. […]
Blitzing for TTF Chloride in Summer 2023!
In June, several Streamkeepers from TTF and the Pennypack Ecological Restoration Trust met at Ethel Jordan Park to continue the second year of Chloride Blitz sampling. Last year, TTF began […]
2022 Chloride Blitzes show extreme spikes in salt levels
Suburban runoff is one of the biggest challenges to the health and vitality of the TTF watershed. Runoff is rainwater that flows off of roofs and roads, where it ends […]
Learning to fish the TTF with Legacy, Land and Water Partners
This fall, for the first time, TTF hosted fishing programs! We partnered with Todd Pride of Legacy, Land and Water Partners, an organization that provides both on-site hands-on and virtual […]
How Philadelphia’s Water Pollution Problems Shaped the City
How Philadelphia’s Water Pollution Problems Shaped the City Below is an adapted transcript of the January 27, 2020 interview for Distillations from the Science History Institute with host Lisa Berry […]
“Little Tacony” Office Fishtank Holds Lessons About Local Fish
Guest Blog by Interns Rut Hormann, Kerry Banford, Malcolm Bundy, and Allison Wray Some of the fish that live in the Tookany-Tacony-Frankford Creek system, mostly fish in the carp and […]
A Trout Triumph
Blog by Will Steinberg, Abington Friends School senior Last week on May 23, Cheltenham Elementary School‘s entire fourth grade released the trout they raised through the Trout in the Classroom […]
Our BioBlitz Adventure!
Guest blog by TTF intern Jennifer Lafty On April 28th, TTF and members of the local community gathered in two parks within our watershed for our first ever BioBlitz. A […]
Meet Geoffrey Selling, TTF Watershed Hero!
By Geoffrey Selling Just as the Tookany winds through Montgomery County, my journey to TTF was winding and indirect. Life is full of unexpected moments and chance meetings and I […]
TTF supports Adoption of Cheltenham Riparian Corridor Ordinance
Cheltenham Township recently hosted two well-attended educational meetings as part of its process for reviewing a Riparian Corridor Ordinance. TTF’s Executive Director, Julie Slavet, expressed TTF’s strong support in favor […]
Pennsylvania Coast Day Creates Big Splash
This past Saturday, TTF had the chance to attend the 11th Annual Pennsylvania Coast Day at Penn’s Landing. The perfect weather made it the perfect day to learn about Pennsylvania’s […]
TTF’s New Intern Jumps Right In!
Welcome, Ariel! TTF’s new intern, Ariel Murphy, jumped right in and got her feet wet at a freshwater mussel surveying event in Tacony Creek Park. Ariel joins us from Arcadia […]
Have you seen any mussels?
Volunteers ready to go! (At the Adams Ave. bridge in Tacony Creek Park) As part of our commitment to clean water, TTF continues to survey local creeks for freshwater mussels. […]
TTF Volunteers Look for Mussels
Who is that in the Tookany Creek? These happy volunteers include Glenside residents, Arcadia University Biology Department members, and Drexel University students working at the Fairmount Water Works Interpretive Center! […]
Freshwater Mussel Survey at Arcadia University
Recently, volunteers met at Arcadia University to survey a section of the Tookany/Tacony-Frankford creek for freshwater mussels. While we didn’t find any freshwater mussels, we did find oyster shells, tennis […]