Its always a treat to be at the Wonderful, Wonderful Camp McDowell!
Sergio, Carolina, and Sydney headed back up to the beautiful Camp McDowell for a monitoring training part of the US Forest Service and Wild Alabama sponsored project to support monitoring on the National Forests of Alabama (NFALs).
Special thanks to Andrew Shea with Camp McDowell Staff for coordinating our workshop location, and for making coffee!
We kicked off our bacteriological and water chemistry monitoring trainings with introductions from our project sponsors with Wild Alabama, and the National Forests in Alabama. Wild Alabama Executive Director, Maggie Johnston, was so kind to make fresh, homemade sourdough bread and butter for the new volunteers to enjoy during the training!
Jody Tetlow, the Bankhead Recreation Program Manager, stopped by to tell us more about visiting the Bankhead and enjoying all the beauty the forest has to offer.
Workshop participants learned about bacteriological monitoring in the morning, then we headed out to Clear Creek on Camp McDowell’s property for water chemistry monitoring after lunch.
AWW Staff were joined by our newest Volunteer Trainer, Jonathan Kelly with Wild Alabama, and he did an excellent job!
Carolina also led for first time and did a great job teaching the practices of the pH test!
We are excited to welcome this new group of volunteers to the AWW Team, and we look forward to many more trainings at Camp McDowell and on the Bankhead National Forest!