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 …
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 …
Sarah Kestner is a proud Baltimore native and nature lover. Growing up in a peninsula community, she spent her childhood wandering through the woods and marshes where she learned to fish, crab, compost and care for others. Sarah moved to the lower Gunpowder River two years ago and became a vocal advocate for Mother Nature …
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 …