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 …
Hi! I am joining Gunpowder RIVERKEEPER® as a YCI member. I am a senior at Hereford High School and am a member of the cross country and track and field team. I joined Gunpowder RIVERKEEPER® to learn more about my local environment, concerns its facing, environmental policies and hopefully help me to figure out what …
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 …
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 …
Just as water moves downstream so does Gunpowder RIVERKEEPER and its efforts to learn and connect with other Waterkeepers. October 24th, our Chesapeake Conservation & Climate Corps member, Brady Bayne ventured out of the comfort of the Gunpowder watershed, down 695 all the way to Gywnn Falls where he meet Barbara Johnson, John Marra, and …