Students from the Bourbon S.D.A. School are filtering water through a net to count and observe the various aquatic life of the Little Bourbeuse River.

Students from the Bourbon S.D.A. School are filtering water through a net to count and observe the various aquatic life of the Little Bourbeuse River.

Each fall and spring, the students and teacher from the Bourbon S.D.A. School visit a portion of the Little Bourbeuse River just outside of Bourbon to survey the condition of the stream and the aquatic wildlife in it as part of the Stream Team Program, which is sponsored by the Missouri Department of Natural Resources.
This year marks 10 years that the school has been involved in the program. The students gather examples of the wildlife in the water and count the number of each species found. The kind and number of species help to determine the health of the stream, as well as the surrounding conditions of the water and land.
We found that the river was low and the field was dry.
Nash Bombach,
grade 7
I found that some of the rock in the stream breaks very easily.
Jacob Tucker,
grade 7
I learned that the water gets really high sometimes and it brought a huge log up stream.
Anne-Marie Tucker,
grade 3
There were some fish in the river and we also saw some crayfish.
Bodie Bombach,
grade 8
We found bug and fly larva in the water.
Cooper Bombach,
grade 4
There were a lot of bugs this time and the water was low.
Tighe Bombach,
grade