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Carl Undercofler
 Throughout
this past year we have seen and met a variety of heroes in a wide
spectrum of arenas. And what I think is the most valiant lesson I've
learned is that there is hope. Hope comes in many ways, and through
many people, but most importantly from your own self-consciousness.
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What Makes a Hero?
Watch out Richard Simmons, there's another high-energy man in my life who's making me lose weight, and this one isn't an oddball. You will find this man running around the country motivating a whole demographic to "get off their duffs," be a "doer", run around in the woods, and make the world a better place.
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Tom Dick
 What
would you call a man who floods over one hundred and seventy acres
of farmland? We call him this month's watershed hero, Tom Dick. After
years of effort, veterinarian Tom Dick and his many volunteers have
transformed acres of unsuccessful farmland into thriving wetlands....
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Mike Yeager
 When
you think back to your high school environmental studies classes,
you may recall the thrill of the hands-on connection you felt with
unique creatures, your sense of wonder in discovering new ecosystems,
and how our place in the world suddenly began to make sense...
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Gracie Angelo
 Who
is a nurse, a school bus driver, and an environmental activist? Who
is this exuberant person that DEP Sec. David Hess, upon touring the
Shoup's Run Watershed, described as "another force of nature"?
What has turned Gracie Angelo, ordinary working housewife, into a
political and environmental activist who not only wants to clean up
damage in her own back yard, but... (more)
Chuck
Chapman
 Fishing
Creek Watershed Association is only three years old, but what an impact
it has made in Columbia County and the State of Pennsylvania. It has
not only gained recognition in this area and surrounding counties
but also statewide. This is due largely to a fellow who has devoted
so much of his "retired" life to this organization that he probably
is wishing he were still working at Bloomsburg University... (more)
Art
Grguric
 How
many people do you know who work a full-time job including evenings
and weekends for no monetary compensation? Art Grguric, Director and
Trout Nursery Manager for the Blackleggs Creek Watershed Association,
certainly falls into that category. It is true that there are many
individuals across the Commonwealth who put in long hours as volunteers
making a difference for watershed organizations, but Art has taken
the term volunteer to a new level. ... (more)
Robert
Hughes
 Bob
Hughes says — "It's like I was born to work on treating
AMD." It would indeed seem that way when you look at Bob Hughes'
life and the paths which have lead his course to his current position
as the Regional Coordinator for the Eastern Pennsylvania Coalition
for Abandoned Mine Reclamation (EPCAMR) at the Luzerne Conservation
District. ... (more)
Margaret
Dunn
 For
the first time in 25 years, Margaret Dunn can see how her work can
really make a difference. Margaret is a geologist and the current
president of Stream Restoration Incorporated (SRI), a non-profit organization
in Western Pennsylvania whose focus is restoring streams impacted
by abandoned coal mine drainage.... (more)
Joy
Lawrence
 Where
you play as a child may come back to haunt you some day! Joy Lawrence,
Restoration Program Manager for the Delaware Riverkeeper Network (eastern
PA) since 1999, is a case in point. Joy grew up in Rocky River, Ohio,
"a community blessed with publicly accessible natural areas."
Her childhood proximity to Lake Erie and an extensive river-based
parks system meant that beaches, cliffs, meadows, creeks and forests
were her earliest playgrounds...(more)
Phil
Stillerman
 Retired
Fire Fighter/Fire Chief Phil Stillerman has a new water-affiliated
activity these days, but this one's for fun: it's canoeing. He discovered
canoeing as the result of another retirement-born passion: watershed
protection and stewardship, subjects he admits that he had never particularly
considered before retiring to Wellsboro, PA.... (more)
Students
Against Violating the Earth
 "SAVE,"
also known as "Students Against Violating the Earth," is
a remarkable student-run organization in the Souderton Area School
District (Montgomery Co., PA). This isn't the first time they've been
in the news: in 1997 they won the national Anheuser-Busch/Sea World
Environmental Excellence Award for the environmentally responsible
house they built adjacent to the school. ... (more)
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