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ankle to waist deep water in a fast-moving current, the group slowly went up stream in formation carrying eight-foot longhandled fishnets and large buckets.
Moreover, although the biologists and the volunteers were all suited with rubber gloves and waste-high boots to protect them from the shock in the electro-charged water, the possibility for shock kept everyone on their toes—literally.
RappFLOW research complements and supports the work of another widely acclaimed program that promotes stream quality—the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Conservation Reserve Enhancement Program (CREP). This program provides grants to agricultural producers to protect environmentally sensitive land, decrease erosion, restore wildlife habitat, and safeguard ground and surface water. A number of farmers in Rappahannock County, including Cliff Miller and Monira Rifaat, participate in this program by fencing areas near streams to prevent animal runoff and planting riparian buffers to filter streams that are in our watershed.
“We will all sink or swim together in protecting our watershed,” Lorinda Bosch, a RappFLOW steering committee member observed in an interview. “Regarding future water protection issues,” she added, “RappFLOW encourages interest and input from all county citizens as it carries out its mission.” Additional information on this and other programs is available on the organizations website, www.rappflow.org.
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