Kids playing with the fish games at the Alpena FRO booth. - FWS photo

Alpena FRO Biologist Susan Wells participated in an annual day-long outdoor festival at the Sprinkler Lake Education Center, Harrisville, Michigan, on September 23.  There were interactive science displays, horse rides, crafts, and a petting zoo. 

The Alpena FRO provided a booth at the event with educational material, fish puzzles, and partnered with the Huron Pines RC&D to operate an interactive watershed model.  The model depicts the path of sediments, and pollutants after a rain event when buffers such as trees and wetlands are lost. 

Approximately 300 children and adults visited the booth. The festival gave the Alpena FRO staff the opportunity to fulfill one of the station goals of distributing information to the general public about fish and wildlife resources, natural ecosystems and programs of the Service.