Posts Tagged ‘stewardship’
Put your Saturday where your mouth is
We often default to giving in the form of a check or a recurring donation (which we love), but there are other, just as important, avenues that a well-rounded conservationist travels. It’s true that we couldn’t keep the lights on here at Michigan United Conservation Clubs (MUCC) without your generous, repeated giving. Your dollars directly help…
Read More10-year anniversary: MUCC-led legislation paves the way for volunteer stewardship, habitat projects on public lands
Giving back to our public lands can take many forms — from planting a tree to clearing a field of rocks so it can be tilled to building small game brush piles. Oftentimes, conservationists’ most rewarding experiences are giving back rather than taking from the resource. What is little known, though, is that up until…
Read MoreOn The Water Comes to Southeast Michigan!
Michigan United Conservation Clubs (MUCC) is excited to announce two upcoming field events in the month of April for the On The Water(OTW) program. For those unfamiliar, OTW is MUCC”s watershed improvement program. It has been around since 2019, and has hosted 20 trash clean-ups and invasive species pulls across the state. Both volunteer events…
Read MoreThe End of Another Season
Just like that, after 40 days of controlled chaos, Cedar Lake is once again quiet. Soon the animals will return to the camp property. With no campers, summer camp becomes just another part of the forest. With the final week of campers in the books, this is going to be another memorable summer. Our oldest…
Read MoreA New Connection
One of the key components of the OTG Jr. Program is creating a connection between the student participants and public land. The whole concept behind this program is to show students and their parents/teachers that there is accessible outdoor recreation not too far from where they live. We are trying to show them they do…
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