2018 Fox-Wolf Watershed Cleanup
The Great Outdoors | April 1, 2018
By Kelly Reyer, Fox-Wolf Watershed Alliance
Join Us This April for the Fox-Wolf Watershed Cleanup 2018!
Join a thousand or more community members who will band together to tackle the litter and debris along the lakes and rivers in the Fox-Wolf River Basin.
Spring of 2017
With community support, last year brought 782 volunteers together who collected 496 bags of trash. We recovered 12 tires, several electronics, and thousands of chunks of Styrofoam and cigarette butts! Fox-Wolf Watershed Alliance’s sixth annual Fox-Wolf Watershed Cleanup is taking place on Saturday, April 21, 2018—Earth Day weekend!
This Year’s Clean Up
The number of cleanup locations continues to increase every year! For 2018, we have organized more than 50 cleanup locations throughout the region. We are hoping to register a 1,000 or more volunteers who will join together to work to protect the waters we all depend upon.
This year, cleanup sites have been organized throughout northeastern Wisconsin including Appleton, Allouez, Combined Locks, De Pere, Fond du Lac, Green Bay, Kaukauna, Kimberly, Town of Ledgeview, Little Chute, Menasha, Neenah, New London, Oshkosh, Shiocton, and Winneconne. High Cliff State Park, Stockbridge Harbor Boat Launch, Terrell’s Island, 1000 Islands Nature area, and Calumet County Park will also be locations for this year’s event.
Fox-Wolf Watershed Alliance
The FWWA is an independent, nonprofit organization that works to protect, restore, and sustain the water resources of Wisconsin’s Fox-Wolf River Basin. The annual Watershed Cleanup is one way our organization is able to do this by bringing area communities together to have a direct and immediate impact on our watershed. As always, we continue to reach further into the communities of the Fox-Wolf Basin and seek out new cleanup sites, supporters, and volunteers.
Get Involved
The Cleanup event is also a great opportunity to get teams of family, friends, employees, neighborhood associations, sports teams, community groups, and scout groups to join together and clean up a site.
Volunteers will meet at their cleanup site on April 21, 9am, where they will learn about our watershed and ways that we can work to improve water quality and protect this natural resource. Cleanup t-shirts and supplies will be handed out at this time. Afterwards, volunteers will disperse throughout their sites and begin the cleanup.
We hope that you will volunteer for this engaging and impactful event in 2018. Your participation will truly make a difference in the community and on the lakes and rivers we cherish. We can’t do it without you!
To volunteer and for more information, go to FWWA.org and click on the 2018 Fox-Wolf Watershed Cleanup image, or e-mail Kelly@fwwa.org.
