The McGuffins

09/30/2026

09/28/2026

🌎🛶😊💧Celebrating World Rivers Day in Algoma! 💧😊🛶🌎

09/20/2026

🌎🛶❤️ Making many new friends from far away places! ❤️🛶🌎

09/18/2026

08/17/2026

Rain or shine the River never disappoints! 😊🛶🌎❤️

07/31/2026

Measuring the Health of Goulais River
As part of our new community led water quality monitoring program, we’re collecting a wide range of measurements that help us understand the health of Goulais River throughout the ice free season. These parameters give us a clear picture of current conditions – which is essential for building our 2026 baseline dataset.

Here’s what our volunteers measure at each site:
Core water quality parameters measured weekly:
1) Water temperature
2) Clarity
3) Depth
4) pH
5) Alkalinity
6) Hardness
7) Conductivity
8) Dissolved oxygen
9) Chlorine
10) Air temperature
11) Field observations + photos

On a monthly basis, we test nutrient indicators:
• Total phosphorus
• Nitrate nitrogen
• E. coli

Our program helps address a significant and concerning data gap by collecting consistent, credible information throughout the entire ice-free season. Every sample helps us detect changes early, understand trends, and build a defensible baseline that future years can be compared against.

If you’d like to learn more or sign up for sampling events, email us at [email protected].
If you’d like to support this work directly, you can donate to the Goulais River Water Quality Monitoring Program here: https://superiorconservancy.org/?form=FUNLNLQTVCR

07/29/2026

BioBlitz ’26 starts tomorrow! Whether you take part for the whole week, a couple of days or just an hour, your observations help paint a clearer picture of what’s happening to species across Canada.

Sign up now: https://brnw.ch/21x4rf0

Not sure where to start? We’ve got a guide for that 😉