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Training opportunity!
Intro to Benthic Monitoring
FOMR will offer an introductory class on benthic monitoring and macroinverterbrate identification on Sunday, March 18, 2018,
from 3:00 to 6:00 PM at the Churchville Branch Library, Rt. 250 W. in
Churchville.
The class will be conducted by Darrell Schwalm,
certified trainer for Virginia Save Our Streams. Make THIS your year to start learning and volunteering as a benthic monitor!
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Enviro Film Festival
FOMR
proudly sponsors this wonderful annual film festival, which is sure to
inspire and motivate you to continue working to protect our
irreplaceable lands and waters.
Mark your calendar to attend one of the 3 dates:
Staunton.............April 22
Charlottesville....April 25
Harrisonburg......May 4
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Training Opportunity
Virginia Water Monitoring Conference "Exploring Emerging Water Issues" March 21, 2018 in Henrico, VA |
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For members of:
- environmental groups
- technical professionals
- municipal professionals
- educational communities
- and the public
To register and for more info on pricing, agenda, please click HERE.
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Volunteer Opportunity
Winter Saltwatch is an easy winter stream monitoring
project that can be done by just about anyone on their own schedule, including kids! The goal of the
program is to monitor excessive road salts that wash into our waterways by
taking a reading of the chloride levels in the water before and after a winter
weather event that causes salt to be laid on the road..... Click to Continue Reading
- Read more and get started with the Izaak
Walton League who can get you started with a small monitoring kit HERE.
- Read even more
about the increasing salinization of fresh waters nationally from the
National Academy of Sciences HERE.
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| FOMR Friend Paul Bugas gave
a great public talk at the Wayne Theater: Fisheries Management 101 covered the basics of what VDGIF does to care for the freshwaters of
our region. He touched on non-native invasive species, dams, hatcheries,
stocking, pollution and, of course, cows in streams. Great job, Paul! |
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FOMR Friend Kate Guenther was hired by the FOMR Board in January to be the Watershed Administrator, the first part-time, paid employee of FOMR. Up until now, Chairman Joe McCue functioned in that and many other roles during his leadership tenure.
Kate is looking forward to getting to know more Friends and to learn more about the natural history and ecology of the river. Pictured here, she holds a giant stuffed fish--perhaps a Spotted Bass-- that benthic monitor and FOMR Friend Adrie Voors found for Kate.
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Outgoing
Board Chair, Joe McCue is freeing himself up to do river projects of his
choosing with FOMR. He is training Kate and preparing the new
Chair. Joe's leadership and management over the years has brought FOMR
far; integrating FOMR into existing conservation networks, developing projects
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Incoming Board Chair, Dave Mangun has stepped up to the plate to take on the future of FOMR. He is in the process of learning about nonprofit leadership and is absorbing from Joe the many details, processes and events that make FOMR tick. A retired engineer, Dave is a riverside property owner on the Middle River.
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Read more about Friends of the Middle River at our website HERE.
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