Site Survey Instructions

Spring/Early Summer 2025 Site Surveys- FORM HERE

June 15th-July 31th 2025- using GravityForms – IF THE FORM DOESN’T SHOW UP ON YOUR PHONE WHEN YOU CLICK THAT LINK USE A DIFFERENT BROWSER – Chrome is acting weird, but Edge and Safari seem to work fine.

Please contact Rebecca if you have any questions or concerns.

Introduction

A number of conservation projects need to be visited on a regular basis to report on progress and potential problems. We are asking volunteers to go to these sites and report on signage, plantings, invasive plants, and other issues. Take pictures of any issues you find: sign or plant damage; plants you are concerned about; etc..

The site map is here Click on the map point to learn more about the site (site sitter legend below). This year – 2025 – the individual watershed groups have decided that they would like to do their own site surveys.

Site Sitter Legend – These are the organizations keeping watch over the sites

If you are interested in doing a site survey, please connect with us at wclvsitesurvey@gmail.com, and we will connect you with the groups who are carrying out the surveys for their sites. Let us know what sites you would like to survey.

You can feel free to go out and do a survey any site you like if it is nearby your house or for any other reason and submit the information. If you plan to do that, please reach out to us and let us know – but any/all experience is good, and all data is good! Visit the site and fill out the following form from your phone in the field.

If you would rather have a print copy to take to the site, that can be found here – please subsequently enter the data collected on paper into the form from a computer or tablet.

Pictures can be attached directly to the form; if you need to send pictures via email to wclvsitesurvey@gmail.com, include the site location & date taken in the subject. Testing should be carried out between mid-June and the end of July, but there is a little wiggle room.

Training Video

Here is the link to review the training video, which is about 50 minutes long.

Additional information

There are a number of apps that you can use to help identify plants. You take a picture of the plant (flower, leaf, or fruit), and it suggests a plant that it might be, with references and pictures to help you decide if the suggestion is correct. If you have a favorite App that you have used successfully, please let us know. A few free Apps for Android and Apple are:

PlantNet
iNaturalist
NatureID
And many more.

Here are some fact sheets about common Pennsylvania invasive plants:

PA List of Invasive plants (best used offline)