A Grand Valley researcher is teaming up with a teacher and students from a Muskegon County high school to conduct tests monitoring the health of a beloved creek that flows nearby.
最近的检测是检测是否有 behavior of suckers in Crockery Creek, which is a tributary for the Grand River as it nears the end of its journey to Lake Michigan. That sucker monitoring is also part of a larger study with ties to John Ball Zoo and the Shedd Aquarium in Chicago, said Amanda Buday, 社会学副教授.
Buday, a rural sociologist, got involved with studying Crockery Creek after conducting a community survey in 2022 for the Ottawa Conservation District regarding the Crockery Creek watershed.
“在我们交谈时,其中一件事很突出 landowners is that a lot of people expressed memories of fishing in the creek, and it was a really valued local trout stream," Buday说. “但是大河有一种感觉 gotten a lot of focus as far as water-quality efforts but that Crockery Creek had not been up until the Ottawa Conservation 区格兰特.