Courtesy Danelle Haake / RiverWatch
A network of volunteers keep watchful eyes on water quality in streams and rivers across Illinois. You ll soon have a chance to join them.
RiverWatch is hosting a volunteer training workshop on April 12 at the Tawny Oaks Field Station in Edelstein.
Danelle Haake is the group s director. The collections they ll be doing are looking at what are called aquatic macroinvertebrates, which basically means water bugs that are big enough to see with the unaided eye, Haake said. We ll teach them how to collect them, how to identify them, and then what those mean for the water quality in that local stream.