Save Our Streams
TThe Save Our Streams Project is lead to educate high school students from Stevens Point Area High School about different aspects of water resources. Fishery Society members go to S.P.A.S.H. for a day and give presentations on fresh water systems, the hydrologic cycle, different biological assessments that can be used to test water quality, and methods that can be used to acquire desired stream rehabilitation results. The next couple of days are spent out at the Little Plover River, with help from the Isaac Walton Chapter out of Stevens Point, working on habitat restoration, like filling in stream banks with old Christmas trees. The high school students get a hands on experience with collecting water invertebrates and get to use HACK kits to do their own assessments of the water quality within the Little Plover River. It's a great experience for the high school students as well as the members from the Society to get out and teach area kids about the environment and give them an understanding of why these practices are done.