
On June 6, 2009, the Shepherd of the Hills Fish Hatchery , Branson, sponsored a Family Fish Day for local and visiting families. The weather was great and the fishing pond was well-stocked! Gopala Borchelt, project director for Table Rock Lake Water Quality, Inc., and I volunteered at the macroinvertebrate table. We had three trays of critters and a tub of crawdads. The critters had traveled from the James River around Galena.
We had lots of visitors. . .it was a treat to watch the kids pick up a rock from one the trays, t
urn it over, and see the critters wiggle! I had taken my collection of critters in vials-I had several examples that weren't in the trays. We made two streams using a blue, plastic table cloth and rocks with pictures of macroinvertebrates glued on them. One stream had critters that were sensitive to pollutants representing a healthy stream and the other stream had critters which were more tolerant of pollutants. A prize was offered for visitors who could (with the help of a chart) identify which stream was which.


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