You could learn a lot from a bug… October 5, 2017

You could learn a lot from a bug… …and we all did! On October 5, 2017, volunteers came to New Hampshire Audubon for a preview of Bug Nights 2018, learned about bugs as if they were “family,” and participated in a fun activity to design macroinvertebrate communities in their habitats. The volunteers did an amazing […]

Bacteria days: results for August 24, 2017 (last of the season)

Dear River and Watershed Friends, Upper Merrimack Monitoring Program volunteers closed out the bacteria sampling season with 100% sampling at 100% of the eleven sites on the Merrimack River from Franklin to Bow and on the Pemigewasset, Winnipesaukee, and Contoocook Rivers. Yesterday was the last sampling day of the season. We plan to begin again […]

Bacteria days: results for August 10, 2017

Dear River and Watershed Friends, Upper Merrimack Monitoring Program volunteers continue to produce 100% sampling at 100% of the eleven sites on the Merrimack River from Franklin to Bow and on the Pemigewasset, Winnipesaukee, and Contoocook Rivers. Do you remember that very high count we had at Site 6 on July 13 and then at […]

Bacteria days: results for July 27, 2017

Dear River and Watershed Friends, Upper Merrimack Monitoring Program volunteers continue to produce 100% sampling at 100% of the eleven sites on the Merrimack River from Franklin to Bow and on the Pemigewasset, Winnipesaukee, and Contoocook Rivers. Do you remember that very high count we had at Site 6 last week (they stopped counting at […]

Bacteria days: results for July 13, 2017

Dear River and Watershed Friends, Good news: We had 100% sampling at 100% of our sites yesterday. The not-so-good news: The E. coli bacteria readings at one of our sites was high. There were suspended solids in the water taken with this sample. This result, unusual for the upper Merrimack River watershed, could be due to […]

Bacteria days: results for June 29, 2017

Dear River and Watershed Friends, Good news: on our very first day of the season we not only had 100% sampling at 100% of our sites but the E. coli bacteria readings from yesterday are very low. None of the eleven samples taken yesterday, June 29, 2017, from the Pemigewasset and Winnipesaukee Rivers in Franklin to […]

Bacteria days are here again: results for June 15, 2017

Dear River and Watershed Friends, Good news: on our very first day of the season we not only had 100% sampling at 100% of our sites but the E. coli bacteria readings from yesterday are very low. None of the eleven samples taken yesterday, June 15, 2017, from the Pemigewasset and Winnipesaukee Rivers in Franklin to […]