2024 Monthly Board Meetings

Board meetings are held on the second Wednesday of every month and start at 7:00 pm for the months of January through March and November. 8:00 pm for the months of April through October. December TBD. The next Board Meeting will be held on November 13th,2024 after the 2024 Records Commission Meeting scheduled at 7:00 pm at the Portage SWCD Office. Meetings are held in the Portage SWCD garden meeting room located @ 6970 St. Rt. 88 Ravenna, OH 44266. If you have any questions or wish to be notified of cancellations, changes, or emergency meetings, please call (330)235-6798.

The 2024 Records Commission Meeting will be held on November 13th, 2024 prior to the regular scheduled board meeting @7:00 pm.

Public records request form

Conservation Incentives Program

In an effort to encourage conservation practices during this pandemic, Portage SWCD is partnering with the Edith Chase Symposium and the Portage County Master Gardener Volunteers to provide educational resources and native plants & seeds to make our yards more inviting to all creatures! Perhaps our health instincts are kicking in because COVID-19 has spurred unprecedented visits to our local, state and national parks. We want to help you bring some of that mental and environmental health into your own yard! The best way to create a more natural landscape that will attract wildlife to your yard is to add native plants. Whether you are a new gardener or a seasoned expert we hope you will partner with us to get more native plants in the ground! Each entry is eligible for a plant or native packet of native seeds. See some of our conservation options below:

Super simple starters

Double-Down duos

Triple Threat

Watering The Bees Photo Project

Featured Conservation

County Envirothon Winners! (Copy)

Kent Roosevelt’s team, Rosenkal, placed 6th overall at the Area 2 Envirothon Competition. They placed 4th in Aquatics, 5th in Wildlife, tied for first in Soils, and 7th in Forestry. This years participating schools from Portage County were Kent Roosevelt and Southeast.

Area 2 Envirothon (Copy)

Envirothon participants at the Forestry Station

Area 2 Envirothon (Copy)

Envirothon participants in the soil pit

SWPPP Inspections (Copy)

We regularly conduct sediment erosion control inspections at active construction sites. See a pollution problem? Let us know!

Electro-Fishing (Copy)

Every year ODNR- Division of Wildlife joins us for Kent River day! They do an electro-fishing demonstration for the schools that attend and allow the kids to see and touch the fish that they pull from the Cuyahoga River. Aquatic biologists use electro-fishing as a means of sampling fish populations to determine the health of a body of water.

River Day (Copy)

Kent students get to come down to the river and experience hands on interactions with native fish straight from the river

LAKE & RIVER FRIENDLY ESTABLISHMENTS (Copy)

A PSWCD initiative to recognize local establishments making clean water choices.

Bio-Med Lower Academy Receives Storm Water Grant (Copy)

Bio-Med Lower Academy presented their grant proposal to the PC Commissioners on December 3rd at their Shalersville site. Tabatha England is the educator working with this student-led proposal. Bio-Med students will design and build a rain garden just off the main entrance to their school. Adding rain barrels to this storm water collection and storage system will also provide a water source for the raised beds that will be added to the front of the building as part of this grant. A pavilion and hoop house added to the rear of the school will provide further opportunities for cross-curricular integrated studies and outdoor learning.

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2024 Monthly Board Meetings

Conservation Incentives Program

Featured Conservation