Forest to Faucet: Gunpowder Riverkeeper Year in Review for 2023
Talk Description:
Please join us at the Sparks Bank Nature Center on Tuesday, November 28th from 6:00 – 7:00 P.M. for a year end review of Gunpowder Riverkeeper’s outreach, education, advocacy, and litigation-based work. Theaux Le Gardeur will discuss the great support we received from interns over the sampling year, provide an analysis of bacteria monitoring data, discuss over-use issues within the watershed, explain the outcomes from our PCB litigation settlement, and illuminate new volunteer and opportunities within the organization, and the Sparks Nature Center.
Speaker Biography:
Theaux M. Le Gardeur, holds a Bachelor of Science in Marine Biology serves as the Riverkeeper and Exec. Director of Gunpowder Riverkeeper. Mr. Le Gardeur recently accepted an invitation at the request of the Office of the Attorney General to serve as a member of the Environmental Advisory Council that was put in place to; “protect and enhance the environmental well-being of our community by, providing informed guidance, promoting sustainable practices, and advocating for environmental stewardship…Through proactive engagement the Environmental Advisory Council will seek to identify and address environmental challenges, conserve natural resources, promote biodiversity, and mitigate impacts of climate change.”
He has volunteered to lend support to area nonprofits in Maryland interested in water issues for 19 years; formerly serving as Gunpowder River resource Chair for Maryland Trout Unlimited, and as a former board member of the Sparks Glencoe Community Planning Council; and as a former founding board member of Waterkeeper’s Chesapeake, a group of 19 individually licensed Waterkeeper Alliance nonprofits that use the Clean Water Act for advocacy and work on water based resource issues in the Chesapeake Bay region. He has also served as a public interest member of the State Water Quality Advisory Commission from 2011-2016 by appointment of the Secretaries of the Maryland Department of Natural Resources and the Maryland Department of the Environment; has led volunteer groups in collecting Benthic macro-invertebrate samples with the Maryland Biological Stream Survey and have taken part in fish sampling activities conducted by the Maryland Department of Natural Resources Fisheries Division.
Please join us to find out the threats and opportunities facing the Gunpowder, Bird, Bush and Middle River areas in this Gunpowder Riverkeeper year end review.
Seating is limited to the first 25 participants! Please RSVP to Gunpowderriverkeeper@gmail.com
