Río Limpio Cleanup Event – Middle Fork Tule River June 2010

June 5 – Río Limpio Cleanup Event – Meet at Springville Park at 8:30 am. Call WildPlaces for more information, or to learn how to become a volunteer leader (559)539-5263.

Middle Fork Tule River on June 5 from 8.30 a.m. until 2.00 p.m.

Fun-filled day down on the Tule River in Springville, CA, demonstrating good river stewardship practices and reaching out to other river-users to also take personal responsibility of OUR Tule River. There is a free BBQ at Upper Coffee Camp after the river clean-up, prizes for the most collected trash or most interesting piece of trash. Fun times. Please join us.

Event Report:

The first North-fork Tule river clean-up and education outreach of the year was a big success! WildPlaces Staff and WildPlaces super volunteers, two Visalia CSET (Community Services Employment Training) subsets – the Green Corps and Urban Forestry groups, Boys and Girls Club of Tulare County, Boy Scout Troop 132, and several individual community members came out for the event. We picked up trash along the North Fork of the Tule and passed out educational flyers promoting the Río Limpio program wrapped around trash bags to the river users.

"The Stairs", Tule River 2007

"The Stairs", Tule River 2010

INSPIRING UPDATE:

THANK YOU WILDPLACES AND MOTIVATED COMMUNITY MEMBERS!!! Over the past 5 years since the Río Limpio program was founded by WildPlaces Director, Mehmet McMillan and volunteer Chico Garza, less and less trash has been picked-up each year.
We only collected twelve half-full bags of trash on the June 5th clean-up. Compared to the full truck loads of trash collected during the first seasons of the program, OUR COMMUNITY EFFORTS ARE WORKING!!!

Let’s keep up the good work; please join us on our July 10th and September 25th clean-ups. Education outreach and trash removal combined; together, we can change the world.