The long-running project, now in its 11th year, uses aquatic macroinvertebrates—small animals without backbones that can be seen with the naked eye—to help assess the river’s water quality.

Volunteers are needed for Little Forks Conservancy’s Cedar River stream sampling event on Saturday, Sept. 13. This long-running project uses aquatic macroinvertebrates—animals without a backbone that ...

GLADWIN – Volunteers are being recruited for Little Forks Conservancy’s annual Cedar River stream sampling event on Sept. 13. The long-running project, now in its 11th year, relies on aquatic ...

MIDLAND — Little Forks Conservancy hosted a successful Cedar River Stream Sampling event this spring in Midland, engaging volunteers in monitoring the health of the watershed. Volunteers gathered at ...

Norma Aumen waded into the cool, shallow tributary Wednesday evening in Longmont and began to slowly tread back and forth across the Left Hand Creek as she drug a net along the bottom. Volunteers work ...

DNA-based biomonitoring relies on species-specific segments of organisms DNA for their taxonomic identification and is rapidly advancing for monitoring invertebrate communities across a variety of ...