La Barque Creek WQM month

La Barque Creek continues to garner well-deserved attention as an unusual and protected safehaven for spectacular biological diversity. Water quality monitoring attempts for last months 'bioblitz' were mostly postponed due to greater than usual flood waters and rain surge events. Bob Coffing has come up with a new plan to try to rectify the situation and to gather as much data as we can in a watershed profile: "WQM Month" will begin June 1st and end July 1st. The idea is that it becomes increasingly difficult to coordinate a large number of Water Quality Monitors for a single "bioblitz" day, but that smaller groups of 2 or 3 or 6 could coordinate with Bob to gather Macroinvertebrate and Chemistry data for multiple sites on different days.

If you would like to be a part of this team effort, or if you would just like the opportunity to survey a creek that actually has bugs in it, please contact: "robert coffing" robertcoffing@sbcglobal.net