Little Forks Conservancy volunteer Bruce McCulloch scoops samples from the Cedar River into a bucket held by his daughter, Gwyneth, looking for specimens such as the mayfly (inset).
Material from the riverbed is examined by (left to right) Riley Hayer, Lily Kelsey and Meredith McCulloch at a station set up on shore.
The teams of volunteers gathered to collect their equipment and marching orders prior to performing water quality tests on the Cedar River Saturday.
GLADWIN
Teams of volunteers gathered Saturday morning at the Gladwin Conservation District Community Garden pavilion to get their marching orders and then dispersed to six sites along the Cedar River to perform water quality tests.
Little Forks Conservancy began monitoring the Cedar in 2015 and has captured 10 years of water quality data in the Cedar River Watershed through sampling for macroinverte…
