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Before teachers and students venture into the woods, a teacher training and quality control/equipment
calibration session is held to familiarize teachers with new technologies and protocols that
will be used in the monitoring. During the four-day event, students teachers, and resource professionals
work together to complete the following tasks: stream cross-sections, stream gradient and stream
water flow and velocity measurements, substrate pebble counting, macroinvertebrate sampling, shade
measurement, Global Positioning Satellite data collection, water chemistry testing, riparian vegetation
measurement, and large woody debris location. Partnerships with the El Dorado Resource Conservation
District and the State Water Resources Control Board's Clean Water Team are instrumental in making WES
a success.
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