March News

Clinch Water Watch and Terri Brown to be featured at Spring Roundtable virtual meeting Thursday, March 17

Join us online for the Spring Roundtable meeting Thursday, March 17, at 6 p.m. to discover the work of the Clinch Water Watch. Terri Brown, assistant professor of geology at UVa's College at Wise, will present the findings from the group's monitoring project on the Clinch River. The Clinch Water Watch Facebook page says, "the State of the Clinch River is important; it's the source drinking water for many people in the county. Clinch Water Watch has been sampling water from the Clinch River and several streams in the county for 2 years."

Upper Tennessee River Roundtable's Save Our Streams Coordinator Cathy Landy conducted trainings for the group on how to monitor for macroinvertebrates.

If you would like to join the call, send an email to uppertnriver@yahoo.com and the link will be shared with you.

Trash Treasures created Participants created crafts for St. Patrick's Day, Easter, and more at the March Trash Treasures Workshop in Norton. Trash Treasures Workshops are co-sponsored by the City of Norton Parks and Recreation Department, Upper Tennessee River Roundtable, and Keep Southwest Virginia Beautiful to demonstrate ways to reuse, rather than discard, various materials. The next workshop will be Tuesday, April 12, at 5 p.m.To register, contact Becca Iozzi (shown at right) at 276-679-0754.

Clinch River Youth Summit offers grant opportunities for schools

Students from middle and high schools will attend the Clinch River Youth Summit this Saturday at UVa's College of Wise Oxbow Center in St. Paul. The event is funded by grants to Upper Tennessee River Roundtable from the Virginia Department of Forestry (VDOF) and the Tennessee Valley Authority. A variety of speakers will present on various topics. After the Summit, the participating schools are encouraged to apply for mini grants for school projects from the Roundtable, as funded by VDOF. This event is coordinated by the Clinch River Valley Initiative's Environmental Education Action Team chaired by Wally Smith, associate professor of biology at UVa's College at Wise.

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