Archived Outdoors

Watershed moments

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Wednesday, April 27, 2016

out watershedElizabeth Vickery, a senior at Western Carolina University, peers into a dip net along with Cullowhee Valley Elementary School student Landon Spangler, to see what they’ve nabbed from Cullowhee Creek.

The Watershed Moments project, funded by a three-year grant from the Burroughs-Wellcome Fund, had Cullowhee Valley students out in the water every Thursday this month to sample the water and its acquatic life while helping WCU and the Highlands Biological Station collect research data. Students will present on their completed work after school on Thursday, June 9.

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