Going Out of Business!!!

Thanks to everyone who has followed “The Bugs of Booger County” over the past couple of years.  As we are moving to Wyoming this year, all my blog material is being transferred to “The Bugs of Popo Agie”, at www.bugsofpopoagie.wordpress.com, and The Bugs of Booger County will become completely dormant.

Please take a moment to visit the new site, and sign up to follow me as I explore the COMPLETELY FOREIGN territory of the Rocky Mountains, searching for bugs, hiking, kayaking, and learning about this new part of the country.

Thanks for reading.

George

We’re Moving!!

My wife has accepted a new job in Lander, Wyoming.  Soooooo….

Very soon (I hope by early summer 2013 at the latest), we’ll be selling our Ozark home-and-twenty-acres and heading to the Great Plains, where we, most probably, will freeze to death quickly.

In preparation for the move, “Bugs of Booger County” will be slowly fading into the sunset.  Even now, before the move, I’m beginning to transfer “permanent” information over to my newly-created blog, “The Bugs of Popo Agie”.  The Popo Agie (pronounced Puh-POH-shuh) River flows through Lander, and I think it’s the coolest name for a river I’ve heard in awhile.

Please bookmark and follow the new blog, at www.bugsofpopoagie.wordpress.com.  For the next couple of months, it’ll be containing all the new info from Bugs of Booger County, which will be allowed to die a natural death.

Thanks for following my explorations through the Ozarks.  I hope that MANY new adventures lie ahead for us in the Rockies.  Anybody want a nice house and land in the Ozarks?

Bryant Creek Assessment Project

In 2010, a group of friends, all members of the Ozark Chapter of Missouri Master Naturalists and all Missouri Volunteer Water Quality Monitors, began an ambitious project.  We decided to conduct water quality monitoring at least once a year, using both benthic macroinvertebrate sampling and chemical testing, at every mileof the forty-two mile navigable portion of Bryant Creek, a beautiful Ozark stream in Douglas and Ozark counties, Missouri. 

Volunteer sampling team on Bryant Creek

After adding in a couple of additional sampling sites, the group covers some forty-nine locations on the creek, which has been divided into multiple segments, each overseen by a Team Captain.   Not only is the information useful, but it’s a great excuse to get out with friends on one of the Ozark’s best streams.

Sue Roberts measures sedimentation as part of stream assessment.

Bryant Creek is part of the North Fork of the White River Watershed, and is a lovely place to fish, swim, or float.  All water quality data is submitted to the State of Missouri’s Stream Team program, and is also compiled into an ongoing report, complete with data, graphs, bells and whistles.

John Rothgeb conducts a chemical test.

The complete text of the report, through 2012, is given in pdf form at the link below.  Sampling and testing for 2013 will probably begin in April.  Anyone who’d like to come along is welcome!

BCAP Ongoing Report