Chisago County 4-H Water Watchers - Starry Trek

Are you ready to explore our county’s natural resources and help conserve our environment? Join Chisago County 4-H Water Watchers to become a citizen scientist and investigate the environment through real-life, hands-on experiences! 

Activities will focus on engagement in citizen science through the monitoring and reporting of terrestrial and aquatic invasive species. Several sessions will offer engaging learning opportunities for the youth involved while getting outdoors to engage in hands-on learning with guidance from professionals in the natural resource field. Through this program, youth will participate in an engaging learning environment, which, in turn, will enable and encourage youth to develop and investigate their own scientific work!

This event is part of a series on water resources conservation, you can attend one or all of the sessions.

Session 6: Starry Trek*

In this optional session, meet at Central Park in North Branch with Chisago County Water Resources and Wild River Conservancy, where you will receive brief training on how to identify starry stonewort and other target aquatic invasive species and how to follow the search protocols. Groups are then sent to nearby priority lakes to follow the protocols and bring back any suspicious organisms!

• Saturday, August 10, from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m.
• Central Park, North Branch (38780 8th Ave, North Branch, MN 55056)
• *Optional session: We will meet at Central Park before being assigned a local lake to survey. Transportation to the lake will not be provided.

As the date approaches, additional information, such as materials needed, drop-off/pick-up locations and times, etc., for each session will be shared.