Meet a Monitor: Catherine Pierce & Erica Lyon

Catherine Pierce and Erica Lyon conduct Virginia Save Our Streams (VA SOS), Salt Watch, and Nitrate Watch monitoring in the Henrico County, VA area and are members of the Riverine…
Meet a Monitor: Ashley Garrison

It’s time to meet another one of our Save Our Streams monitoring volunteers! This time, we’re hearing from Ashley Garrison, a newly certified SOS volunteer in Tennessee. Ashley is a…
League staff featured in NPR article on how government and non-profit agencies assess stream health in Virginia

The League’s Samantha Puckett and Matthew Kierce led a Virginia Save Our Streams benthic macroinvertebrate monitoring demonstration at the Choose Clean Water Conference in May 2025. They are featured in…
Responding to an Acute Pollution Event

On April 3, 2025, a tanker truck carrying gasoline and diesel fuel crashed into a bridge in Great Falls, Virginia. As a result, around 2,600 gallons of fuel spilled onto…
Meet a Monitor: Sarah Sojka and Karin Warren

Sarah and Karin are certified Virginia Save Our Streams monitors & trainers, and are professors of environmental studies at Randolph College in Lynchburg, VA. They are monitoring the effects of the recent removal of a major dam that was built nearly a century ago.
Meet a Monitor: Nishka Shah

Nishka is a high school student, certified VA SOS monitor, and Youth Conservation Leadership Institute member who is working to reduce pollution in northern Virginia’s streams.
Volunteer Water Quality Monitoring: A Win for Both Volunteers and Local Decision-Makers

When volunteers with the Izaak Walton League’s Virginia Save Our Streams (VA SOS) program in Christiansburg, Virginia, reached out to the town’s Environmental Program Supervisor, Patricia Colatosti, about monitoring water…
It Takes a Village

Bepe had just moved into her home in Grayson County, VA, when she heard helicopters overhead. Small droplets were falling from these helicopters onto Bepe and her property. She would…