Aerial and Field SAV Observations

Our seventh grade classes from Calvert County Public Schools have completed their fall SAV monitoring project on Cocktown Creek (Quad #041).  The results were about what we’d expected, plenty of Hydrilla with lesser amounts of Coontail and some small remaining patches of Wild Celery.  The Naiads that were detected early in the season nearly disappered [...]

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Greetings!
The CHESPAX staff (Calvert County Public School system’s environmental education) did a pre-school check-up of our SAV study site on Cocktown Creek on 8/26/2009.  The creek is a tributary of the Patuxent River near Huntingtown, MD (Quad #41). 
Nearly all of the expected species were present, including extremely dense beds of Hv, fairly robust growth of Nm [...]

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