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SUMMARY:Karing for the Kzoo 2026
DESCRIPTION:KARING FOR THE KZOO 2026 \nMark your calendars and join us for this very early spring 2026 Kalamazoo Mayor’s Riverfront and Verburg Parks beautification and Kalamazoo Valley River Trail cleanup. This marks our fifth consecutive\, twice-yearly\, community-wide event dedicated to improving the City of Kalamazoo’s riverfront parks and adjacent river trail experience. \nThere are two (2) distinct components to this event: \n1. Mayors’ Riverfront and Verburg Parks Beautification: 10 AM – 3 PM \nThis is where\, under the guidance of invasive plant specialists\, we will continue our efforts to eradicate invasive trees and bushes that are choking out native species and pushing out small birds\, animals\, and pollinators. We will also be trimming back any overhanging branches and clearing the trail of any loose leaves and other natural debris to improve the Kalamazoo Valley River Trail user experience. \n2. Litter and Trash Pick Up: 10 AM – 1 PM \nThis event’s litter and trash pickup will be on and along the Kalamazoo Valley River Trail. Our primary areas of focus will be the KVRT from Mayors’ Riverfront to Verburg Parks\, and then those stretches from Mayors’ to Comstock and Verburg Park to Parchment. \nBecause of early season cold water temperatures and swift-flowing waters\, any on-river activities will be reserved for only those expert paddlers or those with power boats. We’ll return on another date to canvas the Kalamazoo River to complete our stewardship along this stretch. \nThere are a number of ways in which you can support: \n\nAre you or your organization invasive plant specialists? Help us and be a team lead.\nAre you comfortable and able to help treat and clear invasive trees and bushes? We need your help to complete this transformative parks improvement.\nHelp pick up litter and trash along as much as 4.5 miles of the KVRT.\nTell your friends\, family\, and coworkers\, and make it a team event.\nBe an event partner and sponsor; give financially or in-kind.\n\nEverything needed will be provided for this event\, including equipment\, food\, and hospitality. Also\, Kalamazoo Growlers will be providing food and snacks at their ballpark\, and every volunteer will receive a FREE pass to a Growlers’ home game on a date to be announced soon. \nWe are pleased to share that this event is being generously supported by Western Michigan University students and\, in particular\, their Greek community\, championed by Sigma Chi\, Kappa Sigma\, and Alpha Sigma Phi fraternities. The WMU Greek community was instrumental in our spring 2025 parks beautification efforts and fall 2025 Kalamazoo parks\, river\, and river trail cleanup. \nTo learn more\, visit https://www.miwaterwaysstewards.org/karing-for-the-kzoo26—spring.html.
URL:https://miwaterstewardship.org/event/karing-for-the-kzoo-2026/
LOCATION:Mayor’s Riverfront Park\, 251 Mills St\, Kalamazoo\, MI\, 49048\, United States
CATEGORIES:River Clean Up
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SUMMARY:2025 Lansing Rivers and River Trail Cleanup
DESCRIPTION:You won’t want to miss out on our fifth community-wide\, Lansing Rivers and River Trail Cleanup. This will be our largest with more activities and special events planned than ever before. We unveil more than incredible rivers\, treasured parks\, and a prized river trail\, we unveil community spirit and civic pride. \nIt is because of you our capital city’s rivers\, adjoining greenways\, and river trail are looking its best. Come alone\, bring a friend or entire family\, or make this a company-wide\, team building event\, and experience the joy and ease with which we accomplish great things when working together. If you wish to become an event partner\, sponsor\, or exhibitor\, drop us a note via our contact page\, we would love to hear from you. \n​In addition to our headquarter site at Potter Park Zoo\, there will be satellite sites at Rotary and Moorse parks for the distribution of FREE snacks\, bottled water\, and all the equipment needed. Ingham County Retired & Seniors Volunteer Program members will be providing support along the river trail too. \nThis event also includes two park beautification projects: Cherry Hill Park and Kruger’s Landing. \nIn appreciation for our awesome volunteers’ waterways stewardship we will be providing each with a FREE PICNIC Potter Park Zoo. It will include food\, drink\, snacks\, and packed with special activities\, special offers\, and music too.\n\n\nFREE Picnic Lunch For All Volunteers (12:30PM – 1:30PM)\nFREE Potter Park Zoo Same Day Passes (limited quantity)\nFREE Lugnuts Baseball Passes (limited quantity)\nFREE Lugnuts SWAG (limited quantity)\nFREE Lugnuts Bouncy Pad Provided By Lansing Parks and Recreation (1PM – 3PM)\nFREE Bubble Entertainment (1PM – 3PM)\nFREE Celtic Harpist Entertainment (1PM – 3PM)\nFREE Keep Our Capital City’s Rivers Beautiful Stickers\nFREE Love Our Waterways Stickers\nFREE River Angel Stickers\nFREE Michigan Waterways Stewards 2025 8-page Brochure\nFREE Love Our Waterways 8-page Environmental Education Brochure\n$5.00 VOUCHER for Future River Town Adventures Kayak/Canoe Rental\nEnvironmental Conservation Education Exhibitors\n\nRegister to volunteer for the Lansing Rivers (Blueway) clean up HERE. \n\nRegister to volunteer for the Lansing River Trail (Greenway) clean up HERE.
URL:https://miwaterstewardship.org/event/2025-lansing-rivers-and-river-trail-cleanup/
LOCATION:Potter Park Zoo\, 1301 S Pennsylvania Ave\, Lansing\, MI\, 48912\, United States
CATEGORIES:River Clean Up
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SUMMARY:Kalamazoo Parks Beautification 2025
DESCRIPTION:This spring we are launching the beginning of our Kalamazoo Riverside Parks Beautification Project. This is a build from last year’s Kalamazoo River and River Valley Trail Cleanup events where hundreds of volunteers cleared thousands of pounds of litter\, trash\, and other unwanted debris\, from our Kalamazoo River and adjoining greenways. \nOur focus will be making improvements to our flagship Mayors’ Riverfront and Verburg parks. Work will include the clearing of litter and trash\, eradicating invasive trees and bushes\, creating generous river overlooks\, and plating of native trees\, bushes\, and grasses to beautify the landscape. \n​This riverside parks beautification project is a collaboration between Michigan Waterways Stewards\, Kalamazoo Parks and Recreation\, and Barry\, Calhoun\, Kalamazoo Cooperative Invasive Species Management Area. This high-impact\, community-wide\, volunteer resourced event\, will change the landscape of Mayors’ Riverfront and Verburg Parks. \nIt includes two 2025 seasonal projects. ​The work will result in the greater integration of the Kalamazoo Valley River Trail with the Kalamazoo River. We will be creating improved sight lines\, river overlooks\, and improve biodiversity via the planting of native trees\, bushes\, and grasses. The later will create a more resilient landscape and restore the food web to attract and maintain wildlife and essential pollinators such as bees\, butterflies\, and beetles. \nThe first event is slated for this spring\, the weekend of April 12 and 13. Another this fall\, on a date not yet determined\, which will include reforestation in the form of an Adopt A Tree program. \nSPRING 2025 – APRIL 12 & 13 10AM – 3PM\n•  Eradicate invasive trees\, bushes and other unwanted flora. Those identified include: Buckthorn\, Tree of Heaven… Privet\, Honeysuckle\, and Autumn Olive\n•  Create generous sight lines to integrate the Kalamazoo River with Kalamazoo River Valley Trail.\n•  Create Kalamazoo River overlooks to improve the Kalamazoo River Valley Trail experience. \nFill out the form on the event page to register to volunteer or to become an event sponsor.
URL:https://miwaterstewardship.org/event/kalamazoo-parks-beautification-2025/
LOCATION:Verburg Park\, 669 Gull Rd\, Kalamazoo\, MI\, 49007\, United States
CATEGORIES:River Clean Up
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SUMMARY:2025 Red Cedar River Cleanup
DESCRIPTION:The Red Cedar River Cleanup is More Than Stewardship. It’s a Celebration of Community.\n \nWhat started as a need to clean up a small bend in the Red Cedar River has developed into Michigan’s largest student-led community-wide waterways stewardship event. This fall’s event is a collaboration between MSU’s Delta Sigma Phi fraternity\, Okemos High School Earth Club\, Meridian Township\, and Michigan Waterways Stewards.​We are expecting a volunteer count greater than 200 this spring\, making this event its largest.\n​\nMark Your Calendar:\n​Sunday\, March 23\, 2025. 11:00AM – 3:00PM\nEvent Headquarters: Delta Sigma Phi fraternity located at 1218 E Grand River Ave\, East Lansing.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis is the Delta Sigma Phi’s fifth community-wide event. Everything needed will be provided for our volunteers\, including: garbage bags\, trash pickers\, PPE gloves\, hand sanitizer snacks\, water\, and more. At event headquarters there will be a small bonfire\, food and drinks\, and recreation too.\n\n\n\n\n\nTo register visit: www.miwaterwaysstewards.org/red-cedar-river-cleanup—delta-sigs.html
URL:https://miwaterstewardship.org/event/2025-red-cedar-river-cleanup/
LOCATION:Delta Sigma Phi Fraternity\, 1218 E Grand River Ave\, East Lansing\, MI\, 48823\, United States
CATEGORIES:River Clean Up
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SUMMARY:Lansing Rivers and River Trail Clean Up
DESCRIPTION:You won’t want to miss out on our fourth community-wide\, waterways stewardship and river trail cleanup. This  will be our largest with more activities and special events planned than ever before. We reveal much more than incredible rivers\, treasured parks\, and a prized river trail\, we reveal our community spirit and civic pride. \nBecause of the efforts of well over 1\,300 volunteers\, many say that our capital city’s rivers\, adjoining riverbanks\, parks\, and river trail\, are looking cleaner\, appear healthier\, and are more pleasant to view and use\, than ever before.  Let’s not let our remarkable gains slip. We remain committed to maintaining and improving upon what is now Michigan’s most scenic\, pleasant\, and varied urban waterways destination. \nCome join us. Either come alone\, bring a friend or entire family\, or make this a company-wide team building event\, and experience the joy and ease in which we accomplish great things when working together. If you wish to be either an event partner or sponsor drop us a note via our contact page\, we would love to hear from you. It is because of you our capital city’s rivers\, adjoining greenways\, and river trail are looking its best\, ever! \nIn addition to our headquarter site at Potter Park Zoo\, there will be satellite sites at Rotary and Moorse parks for the distribution of FREE snacks\, bottled water\, and all the equipment needed. \nWith your help we will sustain those transformational changes made and ​make our Capital City’s treasured Grand and Red Cedar rivers and prized Lansing River Trail looking their best. Choose your preferred area of stewardship\, whether it be on the water (blueway) or on land (greenway). \nTo register\, visit www.miwaterwaysstewards.org/lansing-rivers-and-river-trail-cleanup.html.
URL:https://miwaterstewardship.org/event/lansing-rivers-and-river-trail-clean-up/
LOCATION:Potter Park Zoo\, 1301 S Pennsylvania Ave\, Lansing\, MI\, 48912\, United States
CATEGORIES:River Clean Up
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SUMMARY:Lansing Rivers and River Trail Cleanup
DESCRIPTION:You won’t want to miss this event. This is our third community-wide Lansing Rivers and River Trail Cleanup in the past year alone. Because of the generous support of so many\, including hundreds of volunteers\, our capital city’s rivers\, river trail\, and adjoining greenways are cleaner\, healthier\, and more pleasant for everyone to enjoy. \nWe are thrilled to be partnering with Potter Park Zoo\, our event host partner and location of headquarter site. Also\, with the help of several other fine organizations this event is much more than stewardship\, it’s a celebration of community. \nOur list of early MVP event partners includes: Potter Park Zoo\, City of Lansing Parks and Recreation\, Red Cedar Fly Fishers\, and River Town Adventures. More partners to be announced soon! \nJoin us. Experience the joy and ease in which we accomplish great things. With your help we will reveal Michigan’s most scenic\, pleasant\, and varied urban waterways destination. Scroll to bottom of this page for links to register to volunteer. \nTo register\, visit https://www.miwaterwaysstewards.org/lansing-rivers-and-river-trail-cleanup-2024.html. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpecial Activities and Offers for All Who Attend!\nIn addition to stewardship activities\, at our event headquarter’s site at Potter Park Zoo we have special activities and special offers for all our volunteers.\n\n\nFREE same-day admissions into Potter Park Zoo.\nFREE Love Our Waterways and River Angel stickers.\nFREE inflatable slides and bounce house (1PM – 3PM).\nFREE discounted canoe rentals.\nFly fishing casting and fly fishing knot tying demonstrations.
URL:https://miwaterstewardship.org/event/lansing-rivers-and-river-trail-cleanup-2/
LOCATION:Potter Park Zoo\, 1301 S Pennsylvania Ave\, Lansing\, MI\, 48912\, United States
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