TOGETHER, LET'S PROTECT OUR RIVERS

CLEANUP MCKELLAR LAKE

Living Lands & Waters hosts an "Alternative Spring Break" each year, where college students from all across the country come together to cleanup McKellar Lake. So far, they’ve partnered with over 2,501 students from across the country, successfully removing over 1.7 million pounds of trash!

Thank you to our partners:

STREAM SAMPLING

Twice a year, the Little Forks Conservancy monitors the Cedar River with volunteer citizen scientists, to help determine water quality. Through this program, a public monitoring event is held in Gladwin, where teams of volunteers visit 6 sites along the Cedar River to collect macroinvertebrates.

This event includes education on these water systems and macroinvertebrates, volunteer data collection in the field and a lunch provided for attendees. Additionally, an identification event is held the following week of data collection, to document the macroinvertebrates collected and to determine the water quality rating of the sites monitored.

TROUT UNLIMITED EXPEDITIONS

Trout Unlimited Expeditions are place-based experiences for teens and college students to volunteer and educate themselves on local watershed issues and the importance of cleaning up our rivers. 

This year, Trout Unlimited will host three Expeditions on the Klamath River in Oregon to inspire a diverse coalition of staff and volunteers to care, advocate for, and recover lands and waters that have been negatively impacted.

With your support, Rivers are Life will be the official cleanup sponsor, providing a monetary donation as well as cleanup kits for each expedition to be sure attendees are properly equipped to improve the river ecosystems they are inhabiting for the week.