Press Releases
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- PRESS RELEASE: Membership - It's Time to Renew or Join WildPlaces
- PRESS RELEASE: The Water Project supports WildPlaces and Rio Limpio
The Water Project, Inc., a non-profit organization that's bringing relief to communities around the world who suffer needlessly from a lack of access to clean water want's you to take part in the Clean Water Challenge by helping to clean the Tule River.
- PRESS RELEASE: June 5, 2010 Volunteers and Volunteer Leaders Needed
Río Limpio: Tule River Outreach and Clean-Up Volunteer leaders are needed for our June 5th clean up!!
- PRESS RELEASE - The Clean Water Challenge: Caring for Community and World
For our July 10th river-up event we will be holding The Clean Water Challenge: Caring for Community and World. WildPlaces and local church groups will be partnering in a community/global connection in a clean water challenge. Local churches will be asked to raise funding for our July 10th clean up event and receive pledges for bags of trash collected. The funds raised will go to The Water Project: a worldwide Christian-based non-profit organization focusing on well-building, well-rehabilitation and clean water in Haiti and beyond.
- Sponsor-a-Giant Sequoia Seedling for Mother's Day!
The perfect gift for Mother's Day is the gift that will last...the Giant Sequoia. The Giant Sequoia is a monument to mother nature's beautiful grandeur. WildPlaces' Sponsor-A-Giant Sequoia Program allows you to sponsor a Giant Sequoia in the name of the greatest mom in the world....yours!
- Tule River “Rio Limpo” Clean-up and River Fair to be held May 30 2009
A full day of activities and family events are planned for Saturday, May 30 as part of “Rio Limpo,” the annual Tule River Clean-Up and river education project. Rio Limpio, a joint project of WildPlaces, Community Services & Employment Training (CSET) and the U.S. Forest Service, gives the public an opportunity to help the community and the environment by helping to clean up local river recreation sites and help educate the public on how to keep the rivers and picnic areas clean and safe.
- WildPlaces takes local teens on ‘eye-opening,' green-based trip – March 18, 2009
WildPlaces, a vehicle for grassroots work in the Sierra mountains, receives tickets to the 2009 Goldman Environmental Prize awards ceremony every year, and this year, Director Mehmet McMillan made a point to bring teens along for the experience, Garner said.
- WildPlaces to host annual “Wild Appreciation” Concert and Volunteer Celebration – March 28, 2009
The public is invited to WildPlaces’ annual “Wild Appreciation” celebration on March 28. Gates open at 6:30 p.m. for the event, which will be held at River Ridge Ranch in Springville. Guests will be treated to dinner and music and will have the opportunity to learn about the programs and projects WildPlaces has planned for 2009, including Giant Sequoia plantings, youth “Immersed in the Wild” trips, “Rio Limpio” river cleanup events and others. Suggested donation for the event is $7.00 per adult (but no one will be turned away).
- WildPlaces Welcomes New AmeriCorps Intern – February 2, 2009
WildPlaces welcomed its newest AmeriCorps Program Intern, Ian Herrick, to the Southern Sierras recently, and is gearing up for a great year of ecological restoration and education events.
