We’ve heard the questions: Where is the Middle River monitoring data? Why aren’t you monitoring Middle River? Since we’ve been able to increase our monitoring capacity, it’s time to expand our monitoring program on Middle River, but we still need your help! Do you have access to a dock on a Middle River tributary? If …
Join us between 10am and 1pm on Saturday November 7th 2026 to learn how to service the Gunpowder RIVERKEEPER® Wader Wash Stations located at 10 spots on the Big Gunpowder Falls. We’ll meet at Sparks Bank Nature Center and take a brief walk to the parking lot on the river to look at the closest …
Gunpowder RIVERKEEPER® will be putting our skills into practice to measure stream health with Izaak Walton League’s Save Our Streams protocol on two Saturdays in October, once on the 10th and again a week later on the 17th. Both days will start at 10 am and should end by 1pm. On October 10th, we will …
On Saturday September 19th, 2026 Gunpowder RIVERKEEPER® ‘s Theaux Le Gardeur and Department of Service and Civic Innovation 2nd Year Leader, Brady Bayne, met with Kaitlin Scowen, Erika Koontz, and Erin Tomassoni from the Maryland Department of Natural Resources (MDNR) and the Chesapeake Bay SAV Watchers program to begin a day of a submerged aquatic …
On Tuesday July 21st, Gunpowder RIVERKEEPER® staff: Theaux Le Gardeur, Brady Bayne, and Skidmore College intern Luke Kretschman were joined by Alex Fries of UMCES and Shane Mizelle of USGS at Dundee Creek Marina to complete a field audit. The purpose of this field audit was to ensure that the methods, training, documentation, and quality …