Mountain Heritage AP Environmental Science students collecting benthic invertebrates in Cane River. They collected several pollution intolerant species from the river, which is good news as an indicator of healthy water quality.
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The link above is a guide to classifying benthos samples. This is one of the ways North Carolina water quality specialists assess water quality.
