Bug Night and Rock Basket volunteers may enjoy this short article and video link from the Huffington Post. A mayfly hatch in Wisconsin was detectable by radar and reduced visibility in the area. Thank you to Barb Cook for sharing it with us all.

Dear river friends, It’s a mixed bag this week for E. coli results. We have 549.3 colonies of E. coli per 100 millitres (exceeding the Merrimack’s Class B standard of 406) on Site 5, just behind the Merrimack State Forest, in Boscawen to a low of 31.3 on Site 1 on the Pemigewasset River just […]

This one has the title of the world’s largest (but not heaviest) insect. The upper Merrimack is blessed with Megalopterans and they are very impressive but not quite this large! See the full story by clicking here.  

Dear river friends, The results for this week’s monitoring: ecoli 7.10.14 are far better than our last report for samples taken on June 26. All eleven of our sites’ E. coli counts fall well below the state’s Class B standard of 406 colonies per 100 millilitres. All but two sites fall within the Class A or designated […]