“No,” he cried, “Say it isn’t so.” We are afraid it is true. There is no Bug Night this week but fear not, we will be back next week on Wednesday, March 23, 2016. We hope that the time flies by for you all. We can’t wait for the next #BugNights.
Show your great taste by treating yourself to the Twenty-first Annual BUG NIGHTS! Since 1995, volunteers including anglers, students, teachers, paddlers, and many others interested in the health of the Upper Merrimack River and general river ecology began learning about these fascinating creatures and what they tell us about river conditions. Your work as a citizen scientist […]
It’s so nice when we hear that adults who were Upper Merrimack Monitoring Program volunteers have gone on to higher education and careers in water sciences and other natural resource fields. Here’s a great post from Stephanie Lynn, whose father Gary is a long-time Bug Nights veteran.
The Upper Merrimack River Local Advisory Committee and St. Paul’s School are proud to co-host the presentation “Bones of Stone: How New Hampshire’s Geology and Glaciology Formed the Granite State” by Michael Caduto as part of the UMRLAC’s Winter Community Program and SPS’s Birckhead Science Lecture Series. About the event Eons before people arrived in New Hampshire, […]
Elizabeth Franz from the Concord Monitor came to visit Bug Nights last night and created a short story and photo essay. Click here to see more and learn how you can join the fun next week.
By Jeremy Blackman, Monitor staff Thursday, January 1, 2015 (Published in print: Friday, January 2, 2015) A nice article about how a natural resource = a world class recreational site = economic development. http://www.concordmonitor.com/sports/15046041-95/in-franklin-annual-kayak-run-gives-way-to-talk-of-urban-renewal
Dear River Friends, All sites sampled yesterday are well below the Class B standard of 406 E. coli colony counts per 100 millitres of water. All sites except for Sites 2 and 6 are below the designated swim beach standard of 88 colonies. While we have had lower results over the years, these are still […]
Dear River friends, The weather should be sunnier and drier this weekend and while the water may be a bit high from the near daily rains, the good news is that the E. coli counts will be low. Thanks to our wonderful water quality monitoring volunteers and our partners at the Franklin Waste Water Treatment […]
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 […]
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 […]
Dear River Friends, Here is the spreadsheet ecoli 6.26.14 with the results of this week’s river quality health data for samples taken by our beloved Bacteria People on Thursday morning, June 26, 2014. As you can see, three of the eleven sites exceeded the E. coli counts for Class B waters in the State of New […]