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Join the Rocky Mountain Flycasters on April 21st for our April Membership meeting. This month's meeting will focus on citizen science opportunities in Northern Colorado this field season. The Rocky Mountain Flycasters and our partner organizations have several opportunities to assist with conservation and wildfire response efforts in the Poudre and Big Thompson watersheds.
Our first guest this month will be Kira Puntenney-Desmond, the Project Manager with Stream Tracker. Stream Tracker is a community monitoring project mapping when and where smaller, intermittent streams are flowing. This project is open to anyone and uses a mobile app to allow participants to rapidly mark the location and streamflow condition (flow, no flow, standing water, other) of streams they encounter along trails and roads. Stream Tracker has participants nationwide however we have recently partnered with the Arapaho and Roosevelt National Forests and are actively recruiting volunteers this season to track streams on the forest and the surrounding areas. (https://www.streamtracker.org/)RMF) members can help build a more robust understanding of local streams while out hiking and fishing this summer.
Hally Strevey, the Watershed Project Manager of the Coalition for the Poudre River Watershed (CPRW), will discuss CPRW's Citizen Science Citizen Science Water Quality Monitoring Program. The Coalition for the Poudre River Watershed evaluates the conditions of water resources through a range of collaborative monitoring efforts with their partners and citizen scientists. These monitoring efforts incorporate water quality and watershed conditions. The CPRW citizen science water quality monitoring program aims to gather baseline water quality data in the Upper Poudre Watershed, and tracks impacts from prescribed burns and natural wildfire on water quality. Volunteers can assist in collecting water quality data in small streams in the Upper Poudre Watershed; this includes several Rocky Mountain Flycasters members who have participated. We look forward to continuing this great partnership in the 2021 Field Season.
Phil Wright has been the Rocky Mountain Flycasters stream temperature monitoring coordinator for the past several years. Things were interrupted last year as The Cameron Peak Fire burned straight through the fall which is when we typically retrieve data from the field before the snows seal the equipment in till spring. Phil will be providing an update on the outlook for the 2021 field season and how the CPF recovery may impact the Flycaster's citizen science efforts.
Don’t miss our exciting raffle items this month. The raffle will close just as the meeting opens, and winners will be announced during the meeting.
We look forward to seeing you on April 21, 2020 and hope you will join us for our final meeting of Spring on May 19th. During the May meeting, we'll be covering locations and techniques for fishing during runoff this year in Northern Colorado and Southern Wyoming. Hope to see you there!