From a MountainTrue press release:
Date: March 7 2015
Time: 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.
Location: Mountain True Southern Regional Office, 611 N. Church Street, Suite 101, Hendersonville
Cost: Free; donations are gladly accepted
Registration Deadline: March 3, 2015
MountainTrue’s Southern Regional office will be hosting a hands-on Adopt-A-Stream Workshop. Learn about a community-based monitoring program where you will receive both classroom and field experience for identifying stream health and water quality issues. Through regular monitoring, debris removal, and trash pick-up, individuals or teams help protect the life and health of the streams and adjacent ecosystems. After the training, you’ll be able to join an existing Adopt-A-Stream team or start your own to become an environmental steward. Registration is required by March 3rd. Please follow this link to register: bit.ly/wqtrainings
Date: March 21, 2015
Time: 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
Location: Blue Ridge Community College, Flat Rock, (exact building and room will be emailed to participants as the training approaches)
Cost: $5 suggested donation
Registration Deadline: March 16, 2015
Each April and October, over 40 MountainTrue volunteers head out to sample 20 sites across Henderson County for aquatic life. These dedicated volunteers look in various stream habitats to find quick crawling predators, spiny turtle mayflies, and a range of other benthic macroinvertebrates, or stream insects. These insects serve as biological indicators of water quality over time as some are more sensitive or tolerant to pollution and changes in the stream channel than others. By sampling the amount and diversity of these insects at each site, MountainTrue is able to use this information combined with data from chemical and physical monitoring programs to paint a bigger picture of what is influencing the overall health of our watersheds. This training is designed for both new volunteers and as a refresher course for current volunteers. Training covers aquatic insect morphology and identification as well as sampling protocol. Registration required by March 16th. Please follow this link to register: bit.ly/wqtrainings
Contact: 828-692-0385 or wqa@mountaintrue.org
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