On two Saturdays in October Gunpowder RIVERKEEPER® staff Brady Bayne and Joe Ottomano led groups of volunteers to monitor water quality at two locations in the Gunpowder watershed using the Izaak Walton League of America’s Virginia Save Our Streams (VSOS) Macroinvertebrate stream monitoring protocol. Our first monitoring station was located at Big Gunpowder Falls and …
On Tuesday October 20th, ten volunteers from KCI Technologies Inc., a local engineering consultancy, joined Gunpowder RIVERKEEPER® staff at the Sparks Bank Nature Center to volunteer their time. Volunteers met at 9 am to get started helping us move furniture, test our aquarium waters, prepare for monitoring, landscape, clean, and service the ten wader wash …
Saturday June 13the Gunpowder RIVERKEEPER® staff Brady Bayne and Joe Ottomano got an early start at Dundee Creek Marina to set up our information and outreach table for the Snakes on the Dundee V fishing derby and tournament. We joined an array of presenters from DNR, Parks and Rec, US Fish and Wildlife, and a …
Gunpowder RIVERKEEPER® is proud to sponsor the second Flotilla for the Gunpowder with Mad About Mud. Register for the event here and follow along on social media here for updates.
Thursday November 13th and Friday November 14th, Gunpowder RIVERKEEPER®’s Theaux Le Gardeur attended the Pittsburgh conference in-person and staffers attended virtually via the live-stream to network with WATERKEEPERS across the continent. Highlights from the live-stream included a session on tips and tricks for leveraging dollars, disaster response strategies, making “non-traditional” allies, and monitoring how road …