Project A.W.A.R.E. will host its 9th annual volunteer river clean-up from July 9-16, 2011. Volunteers will spend a day or up to the week helping to clean trash from 88.1 miles of the Little Turkey, Turkey, and Volga Rivers. A.W.A.R.E. refers to ‘A Watershed Awareness River Expedition’ and is an Iowa DNR program.
Volunteers travel the rivers by canoes, tent-camp, pay for the provided meals, and may partake in nature and environmental programs in the PM. Examples of this year’s programs include: a canoe skills and safety class (IA DNR ), an owl walk (Fayette County Conservation Board) and a hands-on fly casting demonstration (Hawkeye Fly Fishing Association & Dubuque Fly Fishers).
Please click on the link to the website if you would like to learn more about the program or to become a sponsor or volunteer. http://www.iowadnr.gov/Recreation/CanoeingKayaking/ProjectAWARE.aspx
Following the week-long river clean-up, I will attempt to provide readers with general information about the volunteers, & the pounds of trash removed from the rivers, along with some of the oddities discovered in the waterways.
(And as I wrote in my first 'Trash Talk' post in April, 2011, if you happen to pick up trash from any waterway, anywhere, e-mail me a few lines and/or send me a picture so I may post it and encourage further waterway responsibility.) Thanks, ~Twitch
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