First we went out kayaking on the lower Rouge River last weekend - my job is basically cleaning up the Rouge - We were taking an author of a MI canoeing book out on the Rouge in Wayne, MI - Flat Stanley will actually be in the picture of our group in the book too ;) I also brought him along to a bug id night. Another program that we run is a volunteer monitoring program, where we send folks out to different locations in the Rouge and they collect insects from the stream bottom. Then we help the volunteers identify the bugs in the lab. (Some bugs are sensitive to pollution, and some are tolerant of it - so we can assign water quality scores based on what bugs rare there). Then I took him to a "grow zone" at U of M D - We have been putting in these grow zones throughout the Rouge watershed to filter storm water with native plants, and help slow down the stormwater and get some of it to infiltrate into the ground. They did a really nice rain garden at U of M D. Finally - he was very helpful in our laminate floor laying project upstairs!
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