Students visit Cascade Falls

This spring, students from Saco Middle School and Loranger Memorial Middle School brought a cooler filled with hundreds of small trout to Cascade Falls. Their goal was to release the immature trout into the brook below the falls. The kids raised the brook trout from eggs while learning how to conserve and protect our freshwater ecosystems. Before they poured their trout into the stream, they looked for aquatic macroinvertebrates (like caddisfly larvae) and measured the chemical properties of the water.

Saco Middle School students hatch and release brook trout (sacobaynews.com)

We had a great day at Cascade Falls!

This amazing program is funded by the Interlocal Stormwater Working Group and taught by the Cumberland County Soil & Water Conservation District.

Thank you to Joe Laverriere from the City of Saco and all of the staff from GZA who volunteered their time to help with the trout releases.

Thank you to the Maine Department of Inland Fisheries & Wildlife for providing the brook trout eggs to our classrooms!