Tired of being chased by snipe flies and other biting flies during a summer's paddle on the Pine? Here's your chance to see where they hang out before emerging.
This is another opportunity to do some citizen science and collect insects for a real measure of stream quality. The aquatic macroinvertebrates being collected, when identified to family level, provides a direct measure of stream quality.
This is the second year we will be doing this insect survey. We will collect at three sites along the most used section of the Pine River; Silver Creek, Elm Flats, and Peterson Bridge.
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 Peterson Bridge before moving to upstream sites.
So if you are interested in seeing some of the life that we usually canoe over, then this is for you.