STREAM SAMPLING

Twice a year, the Little Forks Conservancy monitors the Cedar River with volunteer citizen scientists to help determine water quality. Through this program, a public monitoring event is held in Gladwin, Michigan where teams of volunteers visit 6 sites along the Cedar River to collect macroinvertebrates.

This event includes education on these water systems and macroinvertebrates, volunteer data collection in the field, and a lunch provided for attendees. Additionally, an identification event is held the week following data collection, to document the macroinvertebrates collected and determine the water quality rating of the sites monitored.