Tookany Creek Trail Fest
On Earth Day weekend Sunday, April 23, Cheltenham EAC will host the second FREE Tookany Creek Trail Fest! There will be a trail cleanup event beforehand (9 am), bird walks, self-guided […]
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Tookany Creek Trail Fest
On Earth Day weekend Sunday, April 24, Sustainable Cheltenham & Friends of Tookany Creek Trail will be hosting the first Tookany Creek Trail Fest! There will be a trail cleanup […]
How do we learn about our creeks? Scientists & citizens work together to monitor the Tookany Creek Watershed
By Alex Cooper, Community Watershed Specialist In 2013, a groundbreaking initiative to protect and restore the Delaware River was launched by the William Penn Foundation, which pledged $35 million dollars […]
How Sawmill Creek Became Mill Run
By Jon Musselman, Upstream Municipal Watershed Planner “Sawmill Creek” sounds like a name you’d hear in the Poconos or Catskills, not Philadelphia. Looking at Cheltenham’s Lynnewood Gardens and Melrose Park, […]
Mark Ruffalo: Accidental Environmentalist
TTF staff and Streamkeepers were honored to spend time last Monday with Mark Ruffalo and the Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University. The afternoon was spent wading in Tookany Creek. […]
Fishing the mighty TTF
People are often surprised at how many fish they see swimming in the creeks of the Tookany/Tacony-Frankford watershed. Due to its urban setting and history of poor water quality, the TTF doesn’t really […]