Outreach

Gunpowder RIVERKEEPER® Attends North American WATERKEEPER Summit in Pittsburgh, PA

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 …

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Gunpowder RIVERKEEPER® Team Presents at 31st Annual Maryland Water Monitoring Council

Thursday November 20th, Gunpowder RIVERKEEPER®’s Theaux Le Gardeur, staff, intern, and volunteer met at the Maritime Conference Center in Linthicum for the 2025 Maryland Water Monitoring Council Annual Conference. 475 people attended the 31st iteration of this event focused on Embracing Innovation to Protect and Restore Maryland’s Waters. The day began with keynote speakers Jeremy …

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Julie Krastel joins Gunpowder RIVERKEEPER® as a Volunteer from York College of Pennsylvania

Julie Krastel is a student at York College studying Civil Engineering with a minor in Sustainability and Environmental Studies. As a lifelong resident of Maryland, Julie has a passion for protecting local waterways, and joins Gunpowder RIVERKEEPER® as a volunteer to help protect and restore the Gunpowder Watershed. Julie has already gotten started with volunteer …

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Oldfields School Visits Gunpowder RIVERKEEPER® at Sparks Bank Nature Center

On October 29th, 2025 almost a dozen eighth and ninth graders accompanied by their teacher Larry Foulk joined Gunpowder Riverkeeper® at the Sparks Bank Nature Center for an impromptu interactive talk and stream walk while their upperclassmen peers took the PSATs and other high-stakes tests. They met with Riverkeeper Theaux Le Gardeur on his way …

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