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,nth ANNVAZ New River Watch �aL Field Guide By Cynthia Crossen Hot off the presses ! ! The River Watch fRW RMR FESTIVAI Project has created The Haw River Watch Macroinvertebrate Manual , funded by grants from the Cemala Foundation Inc . and the Z . Smith Reynolds Foundation. Each River Watch By Martha Pentecost monitoring team will receive a free copy of this new field guide which is specific to the Haw The most fascinating thing the Festival steering committee has dealt River watershed . with for 2000 has been the schedule . Because Easter falls very late this year, The new manual describes in detail how school spring breaks fall late and throw off our usual schedule . This year we to find macroinvertebrate critters in the Haw and forego the orderly movement of sites from upriver to down, and take a week' s its tributaries . Lots of large , beautiful illustra- break ! Seethe calendar on the back page for a complete list of sites and dates . bons make identification easier. Guilrock is a new site for the Festival . A Methodist camp with 200 The manual reflects the method our acres , it offers a looping path right on the river, easy bus parking, a screened River Watch teams have been using to collect shelter we can work with for raindays . The crew can use the indoor kitchen , water quality data, which is based on the Izaak shelter, canoes , and playing field . There are plenty of SHOWERS and even Walton League , s classification of pollution bunk bed accomodations at no extra cost. And, speaking of cost, the price is sensitive and pollution tolerant organisms . lower than what we were paying at Brown Summit. Included in the manual is an updated list of North The steering committee is also in search of a new coordinator. Carol Carolina officials that citizens can call to report Hewitt helped us focus on what we need in a coordinator and what questions we water quality problems , stream mismanagement, can ask to find such a person . If no one steps forward from the crowd of past or emergencies , or to ask general stream-oriented volunteers , we may be hiring someone with no experience of this particular— questions , very particular river festival . This hasn ' t happened in awhile . Kudos to these River Watch Project But the steering committee is cooking . members for creating an excellent tool for Haw . River Watchers : River Watch Project Coordina- tor Kim Colvin, who wrote and compiled most of the manual ; entomologist Wade Holland, who ided a wealth of information about �d'Vct �1V@Y' prov macroinvertebrates in our watershed ; Board 1 = 1.ct V p -vw ct -wv T h Q 2i 2000 member Kevin Meehan , who did the streamside illustrations ; HRA Director Elaine Chiosso , for the summary of Haw River issues ; photographer Mly Ken Crossen, for the digital photo ; watershed modeler Randy Dodd, for editorial comments and 10 sites from 6 u r I i n g to n to Jordan Lake help with the resource list ; River Watch Comim MCM11 11, 2000 tee chair Cynthia Crossen, for editing and assembling the manual in Adobe Pagemaker ; and Jesse Crossen , for many hours of scanning illustrations . We are grateful for permission to You ' ll feel great and so will the river ! some teams use canoes , some have lots of use illustrations from Aquatic Entomology by W. Patrick McCafferty, illustrated by Arwin V. kids , some hike far, some work in one Provonsha. And we thank the Izaak Walton place . . . . Whatever you do , come and help ! League for their pioneering work in citizen water quality monitoring. Can ' t make it ? Send in a donation to sponsor a team . Use the enclosed form to tell us how you want to help ! ( or call 919 543 - 5790 or email us , hra@emji . net)