These photographs were taken by Irene Spector, our stream photographer. The pictures and our stories will tell you how we monitor Little Falls Stream. We monitored our stream in late November and again at the end of February. We found a riffle that we thought might have some good macroinvertebrate, and that's where we put down our net. A riffle is a lotic area of rapidly moving water over rocks.
Riffles have lots of oxygen which attracts macroinvertebrate.
The picture shows us putting the kick seine net into the water. We are wearing rubber hip boots and gloves to keep us warm and dry.