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Weekly Update
October 20th, 2014

Happy Fall!

 

U of M students leading a lesson on water quality and pollution. Home school students are observing pH levels from water with different levels of pollution.
 

 


Still time to enjoy a few crisp, fall days in the field with WEN! This past week WEN enjoyed being at the Clark Fork river in training U of M environmental education students on WEN's school stream monitoring field trip. They were also given the added task of coming up with their own 'mini lesson' to teach about the Clark Fork as well. Later in the week WEN brought twenty home school students to be taught by our U of M instructors, which became a hugely fun event and a great day for both grade school and college students alike to spend appreciating and monitoring our awesome Clark Fork River!

Cfs calculation or directions to the Children's Theater
Home school students with UM student instructors- estimating CFS (cubic feet per sec) or they may be pointing the way to the Missoula Children's Theater for the Friday,  Oct. 24 event benefiting WEN; we're not sure which!

Upcoming Field Trips/Events

Tuesday October 21st, 2014
School Stream Monitoring
WEN will be leading a Stream Monitoring program with 7th graders from St. Joseph's School. Our stations will focus on collecting chemical, physical, and biological data on the Clark Fork River near the Boone and Crockett Club. Let us know if you can make it to either day for these monitoring sessions!
Where: Meet at the WEN Office 
When: 8:45am to 11:30am


Friday October 24th, 2014

Watershed Education Network's photo.
Join us Friday, Oct. 24th
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Friday, Oct. 24 at Missoula Children's Theater

An annual fundraiser by the UM Environmental Law Group  - this year, WEN is the beneficiary of the event! Come join WEN friends for a fun-filled evening! Tickets are $10 which gets you appetizers, live music and drinks. 
When: 6:00pm

Sunday October 26th, 2014
Stream Team
Join our weekend citizen science water monitoring program this fall!  Learn to use stream monitoring equipment and contribute to our river health database.  This season we are focusing on the Lolo Creek watershed. For more info, and to check the times, please email [email protected].
Where: Meet at the WEN Office 
When: Noon to 4pm (tentative)
 
 Rock Stars: Alisa Royem (field trip support), Ken Rand (photos), Wendy Vanden Bosch (grant research Intern), Sam Dexter (Stream Team Leader), Genevieve Day 
(program assistant Intern), Cassie Sevigny (office support), and Andrei and Landon Heaton (a little bit of everything it seems)! ithout your contributions, we could not do our good water education work! Thank you!
 
Landon and Andrei Heaton (right to left) helping set up for our school stream monitoring training day with the university students. Look what they hauled!

Community Shout Out: University of Montana students from Dr. Fletcher Brown's Environmental Education classes for the water topic research and lessons for home school classes last week! Thank you!


RSVP for any of these events by calling our office at 406-541-9287 or by emailing [email protected].


 

For more opportunities, questions or directions, feel free to call our office at 406-541-9287. See you at the river!
 

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Cheers,

Watershed Education Network