Jiwoo, Virginia Save Our Streams’ youngest volunteer trainer, used to be afraid of bugs. Now she’s an intern in the Odanata collection at Smithsonian, is developing a macroinvertebrate identification AI model and wants to study entomology in college.

By: Abby Hileman, Salt Watch Coordinator Community science relies heavily on dedicated local volunteers. For Richard Love, protecting local watersheds blends seamlessly with community connection. Today, he serves as an…

By: Abby Hileman, Salt Watch Coordinator The Izaak Walton League of America has been working to conserve habitats for future generations since 1922. Over a century later, a new generation…

Butch Morris, a member of the Fredericksburg-Rappahannock Chapter of the Izaak Walton League, started by teaching students about macroinvertebrates in the 70’s. Now he leads his chapter’s Save Our Streams monitoring.

Phillip Mariscal says joining the Izaak Walton League Rockville Chapter was the best decision he ever made.

By: Abby Hileman, Salt Watch Coordinator From “The Burning River” to Salt Watch: Meet Mark, the Citizen Scientist Protecting Cleveland’s Waterways For some, the environment is a hobby. For Mark,…

By: Heather Wilson, Save Our Streams Coordinator Keith Hanson has always been drawn to water. Growing up in the land of ten thousand lakes, “water was always around.” As a…

Growing up in a rural area surrounded by rivers and creeks, Grace has always been interested in the relationship between communities and waterways. So, when it came time to choose a topic for her senior capstone project, Grace decided to focus on water pollution…

Fred Bailey first joined the Izaak Walton League because he was looking for a shooting range in his area, and a Google search brought him to the Arlington-Fairfax Chapter in northern Virginia…