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Nets, boots, macroinvertebrates, action: and an invition to a field trip 6/29/24 9:00AM in Danville Vermont
Macroinvertebrates, or the invertebrates we can see, are sentinels of clean water monitored by professional biologists. They can also be a gateway drug for budding scientists young and young at heart. This episode describes inexpensive equipment for catch-and-release studies of macroinvertebrates in ponds and streams.
This video takes you through the same approaches.
Episode art is clipped from an image uploaded to Wikimedia commons by John Rostron.
Driving directions from Danville if you'd like to join us on Saturday 6/29/24 9:00AM:
At the Route 2 light in Danville, turn south onto Peacham Road. Take an immediate left (at the Danville Post Office) onto Brainerd Street. Stay on Brainerd Street for .8 miles, where you will keep right onto Greenbanks Hollow Road
(dirt road). Stay on Greenbanks Hollow Road for 1.9 miles. Go through the covered bridge, and continue south on Thaddeus Stevens Road for one mile.
Parking instructions:
The parking location is on the side of Thaddeus Steven
Road at the town line between Peacham and Danville which is one mile south of the Greenbanks Hollow covered bridge in the vicinity of 3027 Thaddeus Stevens
Road.
See
you at 9am on Saturday.
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Macroinvertebrates, or the invertebrates we can see, are sentinels of clean water monitored by professional biologists. They can also be a gateway drug for budding scientists young and young at heart. This episode describes inexpensive equipment for catch-and-release studies of macroinvertebrates in ponds and streams.
This video takes you through the same approaches.
Episode art is clipped from an image uploaded to Wikimedia commons by John Rostron.
Driving directions from Danville if you'd like to join us on Saturday 6/29/24 9:00AM:
At the Route 2 light in Danville, turn south onto Peacham Road. Take an immediate left (at the Danville Post Office) onto Brainerd Street. Stay on Brainerd Street for .8 miles, where you will keep right onto Greenbanks Hollow Road
(dirt road). Stay on Greenbanks Hollow Road for 1.9 miles. Go through the covered bridge, and continue south on Thaddeus Stevens Road for one mile.
Parking instructions:
The parking location is on the side of Thaddeus Steven
Road at the town line between Peacham and Danville which is one mile south of the Greenbanks Hollow covered bridge in the vicinity of 3027 Thaddeus Stevens
Road.
See
you at 9am on Saturday.