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 …
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 Thursday September 10th, Gunpowder RIVERKEEPER®’s Theaux Le Gardeur and Department of Service and Civic Innovation (DSCI) 2nd Year Leader, Brady Bayne, met with Maryland Department of Natural Resources (MDNR) Fisheries and The University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science (UMCES) early in the morning to observe and assist with a beach seine sample at …