Adopt-a-stream, Jan.-Feb. 2013

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January-February 2013 Newsletter at A Glance
The January-February Newsletter is now live on the Adopt-AStream website.

AAS Stream Habitat Survey
Workshops
We would love to host a Stream Habitat Survey and Visual Stream Assessment workshop in your community. These free workshops are specifically designed to meet the needs of your group and can include any of the following:
Stream Habitat Survey Cross Section Measurement Flow Pebble Count Watershed Assessment
Please contact Georgia Adopt-A-Stream at 404-6756240 or aas@gaepd.org to schedule a workshop.

Greetings from State Coordinators Allison Hughes and Tara Muenz
FEATURE ARTICLE: Adopt-A-Stream by the Numbers 2012
If you are an Adopt-A-Stream QA/QC volunteer, you know our goals by heart. In our feature article, we take a look at how all of us, as volunteers, trainers, coordinators and AAS Board Members met our program goals while contributing more than 150,000 hours of service, which is worth over $500,000 in volunteer dollars! Read more here

Top 10 Adopt-A-Stream Groups

Click here to review other stats from 2012
Rivers Alive 2012 a Big Success!
Click here to find out more and to start planning your RA 2013 cleanups!
Adopt-A-Stream Confluence
Our Annual Volunteer Conference Saturday, March 16
Gwinnett Environmental & Heritage Center
Online Registration Now Open!! Confluence information and registration can be found online at
www.GeorgiaAdoptAStream.org or by calling the State Office at 404.675.6240. Registration is $30.00 per person and includes
Confluence materials, meals and door prizes. Students can come for just $20!
~Agenda at a Glance~

THANK YOU TO OUR CONFLUENCE SPONSORS:
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MARK YOUR CALENDAR FOR THESE GREAT UPCOMING EVENTS! Adopt-A-Stream Confluence
March 16, 2013 Gwinnett Environmental & Heritage Center For more information about confluence, click here.
The Environmental Education Alliance of Georgia Conference
March 22-23, 2013 The Classic Center, Athens, Georgia Theme: 21st Century Communication for Environmental Educators For more information about this event, click here.
Georgia River Network's Weekend for Rivers
April 6-7, 2013 Chattahoochee Nature Center, Roswell, Georgia For more information about this event, click here.
AAS Welcomes our New Groups
Cadmus Construction, Fulton County Upper Ocmulgee/Yellow River/Porterdale Police Explorers, Newton County Creek Ninjas, Spalding County Lake Cunningham S.C. Team, South Carolina Knowles Landing, Houston and Macon Counties Mount DeSales Academy, Bibb County Bear Water Monitors, Jefferson County Decatur 2011, DeKalb County Potato Creek, Spalding County JEDI, Jefferson County Save Our Saluda, South Carolina CCHS Environmental Club, DeKalb County Soleil, Cherokee County
AAS Newsletter Archive:
Did you know that Adopt-A-Stream has created an online archive of our newsletters dating back to September 1996. Visit our archive by clicking here.
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