Our volunteers monitor our local streams for the educational experience, to meet old friends, create new friendships, and just enjoy the sights and sounds of a babbling brook for a couple hours.  Although this is fulfilling and fun, the data generated from stream monitoring has much more significance and impact than many realize. Loudoun Wildlife […]

Vol. 5 Issue 1, Winter 2001 Riparian forest buffers and stream quality By Fred Fox Long ago, nearly every mile of every stream and creek in Loudoun County ran clean and pure, protected by a dense mantle of mature trees. After two centuries of agriculture and, now, thirty years of intense residential development, most of […]