Fishmyster
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I took a course she instructed in Vic. 2015. We sampled a creek in Sidney. Ray creek had 5000 macroinvertebrates per m2. The EPT composition was low so the water quality rating was only "fair". She wasn't interested in water sampling. I was interested and the alkalinity was 144ppm. pH 7.8 that day. After we sampled I told her all about how this urban stream has 25 times the ecology the Stamp and many other streams had at that time. She was only interested in small urban streams. She did encourage me to join the efforts of creating a database and how to log in to upload my findings. I would have into that but they never use the information for anything other than finding areas of urban contaminants. As useful those efforts are it was never going to bring awareness to the die off in ecology over the rest of the land. I asked about invertebrate records. She said streemkeepers started in 1995 and that is after the first mass die off I watched happened. Streemkeepers records would only indicate reasonably steady populations because they started during the "new normal" conditions.have you contacted ZoAnn morten with the pacific streamkeepers alliance with your findings she's a big supporter of citizen science.
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I really enjoyed my day of sampling. ZoAnn and the rest of the enthusiasts. She was a great instructor with passion for he work. I am applying the same entomology response to water quality concept streemkeepers uses. The one square foot scrape and count everything technique doesn't fit well into most natural stream layouts. I find that far more information can be collected quickly with a camera. I also feel video is more credible than paper. Videos are my reports.