Traverse Creek Stewardship (TraCkS) was
established in spring of 2005 by Susan
Whittington and Susan McCormick under
the auspices of the Georgetown Divide
Resource Conservation District. The two
Susans and about 30 volunteers were
trained by the GDRCD staff (Mark Egbert
and Jill Andersen), South Yuba River
Citizens League (Diane Cross) and the
Forest Service (Mike Taylor) in water
quality protocols and stream walk
assessments. In addition Greg Suba, with a
grant through the American River
Conservancy, trained 12 volunteers to
sample and identify benthic
macroinvertebrates (insects and other
organisms living on stream bottoms) in a
series of field and laboratory classes in
June of 2005. (next)