Decisions being made around the tables in conference rooms in Des Moines will define every aspect of what we are all trying to do improve the quality of our rivers, lakes and streams. The Volunteer Monitor is a free national newsletter highlighting the wide variety of watershed-monitoring activities conducted by volunteers across the nation. These activities range from performing chemical tests and identifying benthic macroinvertebrates to surveying vegetation, watching out for exotic invaders, and monitoring construction site runoff. While accessible to the layperson, the articles are also of interest to professionals. Subscribers include volunteer monitors, teachers, agency staff members, consultants, university professors, and environmental organizations.
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The summer issue of The Iowa Citizen Monitor, incorrectly stated that stream depth needed to be submitted as centimeters, not meters. Our database is having problems when many users are submitting data at the same time. This also happens if there is heavy traffic on the server where our database is located. Your Final Submit page will reappear. We apologize for this inconvenience and in the near future, we plan to move the database to a different server that will be unaffected by multiple users.