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Summer 2002 Currents

Families & Middle Schoolers Learn About the Watershed On 14 July, approximately 20 people joined SRWC for a public program to learn “What Lives at Rumney Marsh”. Families netted mummichugs and learned about the shorebirds and other animals that make their home in this unique salt marsh habitat. Exploring salt marsh creeks, Rumney Marsh, Spring 2002 Almost 200 middle school youths from Lynn and Revere came out this past spring to explore Rumney Marsh. Students enjoyed scanning the creeks and channels searching for a small salt marsh fish called a mummichug. The children also identified and learned more about plants that they had drawn during the in-school portion of this program. Students got a chance to see the effect of the tides on Rumney Marsh by measuring the height of the last high tide on a chalked stick. Children spotted a great deal of wildlife in the marsh, including: great white egrets, red-winged blackbirds, mosquito larvae, crabs and mummichugs. One class even got to see a dog fish shark that got caught up in a creek channel when the tide went out! For more information about this and other youth education programs please contact Nicole Cave-Luongo at 781-233-5046 or nicolecave99@yahoo.com.

Summer 2002 Currents

Viewing the Watershed by Canoe
2002 Environmental EducationWorkshops
Steve Angelo Announces Retirement
Urban Coyote Field Study
"Alewife" finds Home at Saugus Iron Works
Volunteers Clean up Riverfront
Editorial: Rumney Marsh Threatened by Clean Elections
Learning About the Watershed
SRWC 2002 Annual Picnic
RESCO Seeks Expansion
Potential Trucking Facility Threatens Watershed
Interning at SRWC
Around the Watershed
Saugus River Watershed Council 2002 Canoe Trip Schedule