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Pine River Insect Survey - RESCHEDULED
Registration is recommended
Registration cancellations will be accepted until Friday, May 15, 2015 at 6:00 AM
Try something different. Here is an opportunity to do some citizen science and collect insects for a real measure of stream quality. The aquatic insects being collected, when identified to family level, provides a direct measure of stream quality.
This is the first year we will be doing this; the Quality Assurance Project Plan for the Pine River having just been approved by MiCorps (The Michigan Clean Water Corps) which means we have approval to enter our findings into the MiCorps database for use by people interested in stream quality assessments. We will collect at three sites along the permitted section of the Pine River; Elm Flats, Peterson Bridge, and the old Stronach Dam site.
A sampling team consists of people wading the river taking samples from all the habitats at each site, a runner who brings samples to shore, and people sorting and preserving insects from the samples. So, people with their own waders are a plus. Depending on what interests you, I will do training at the spot. We expect to be finished by 2 - 3 pm.
We start at 10 am, first meeting and collecting at Elm Flats.
So if you are interested in seeing some of the life that we usually canoe over, then this is for you.