Your participation and generous contributions enable us to improve the health of the Northwest Branch.
Membership levels:
Salamander Saver - $20 - $49
Wood Frog Friend $50 - 99
Great Blue Heron Hero - $100 +
ALL donations are appreciated!
Prefer a check? Send to P.O. Box 4314, Silver Spring, MD 20914. Thanks!
On Tuesday, Feb. 2, we hosted staff from Montgomery Parks for a highly informative virtual program on biological monitoring in the NWB and current and future plans for stream restoration. Our presenters were Rachel Gauza, Biological Monitoring Program Coordinator; Erin McArdle, P.E., Environmental Engineer; Jackie Hoban, Senior Natural Resources Specialist; and Valeria Espinoza, Stream & Parks Cleanup Coordinator. Doug Stephens, Principal Natural Resources Specialist, kept an eye on the chat questions and provided answers.
On Tuesday, Dec. 1, Maryland Master Naturalist and science educator Paula Wang showed us what to look for in the winter forest. The program had an excellent virtual turnout of 32 people, who are now primed to observe the winter woods in a whole new way. If you would like to review the material, or you missed the program, please click the button below, which takes you to our Events page and a link to the video. To focus on any particular slide, just pause the video. The file is too large to post.
Dismayed by Ed Murtagh's video of largely street runoff litter, NNWB members Kem Morawski, Anne Ambler, and Scott Zillmer joined Ed in de-littering both sides of the NWB downstream of Colesville Rd. The action greatly improved, at least temporarily, this otherwise beautiful area. The cleanup was a spur-of-the-moment affair, not an official MoCo Parks cleanup, so we used our own equipment. Photo by Ed Murtagh, 1/6/21.
(Pictured is the Northwest Branch at the monitoring site.) The water quality monitoring results for the most recent testing, on 9/16/20, are also posted there.