Friends of the Rouge River Need Volunteers for Spring Bug Hunt

Friends of the Rouge needs volunteers to help look for stoneflies, mayflies and other aquatic insects at the annual Spring Bug Hunt on April 20, 2013. 

Interested volunteers must pre-register by April 5. Children are welcome when accompanied by a participating adult.

The event begins at 9 am at the University of Michigan-Dearborn’s Environmental Interpretive Center. Volunteers are assigned to teams of 4-8 people that each travel to two sites where they look for living things in samples collected from the river under the direction of a trained Team Leader. The number and type of bugs found is used to assess each site and data are submitted to the state and Rouge communities.  

The Spring Bug Hunt is part of a long-term monitoring program that was created in 1998 to train local residents to collect information about the health of Rouge streams.  It is coordinated by Friends of the Rouge and supported by the Erb Family Foundation and the Alliance of Rouge Communities. 

For more information or to sign up, visit www.therouge.org
Additionally, FOTR is offering training for Bug Hunt Team Leaders on April 13.