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Story Created: Sep 24, 2009

Story Updated: Sep 24, 2009

Weather Wisdom - Friday, September 25, 2009

By Craig Koplien (WTMJ)

Tomorrow is the 16th annual National Public Lands Day. The event is described as the nation’s largest hands-on volunteer effort to improve and enhance the public lands Americans enjoy. Last year, 120,000 volunteers built trails and bridges, removed trash and invasive plants, and planted over 1.6 million trees. This year, volunteers at National Public Lands Day events throughout the country will work to improve water quality on public lands by planting native vegetation to reduce polluting runoff, testing for water quality and cleaning up rivers, lakes and wetlands.

There are many sites Wisconsin at which volunteers will be working. At Gordon Park in Milwaukee, volunteers will be planting native trees in areas where invasive species have been removed. Also, Clean-up will take place at Milwaukee’s Urban Treehouse site on Lynden Hill in Midtown. In Grafton, garbage removal is scheduled to take place at Bikepath Island. Plus, volunteers will be at many of the Milwaukee County Parks planting trees, pulling invasive plants, and cleaning up beaches and riverbanks.

The event is sponsored by the National Environmental Education Foundation with the intention of keeping the promise of the Civilian Conservation Corps, the "tree army" that worked from 1933-42 to preserve and protect America's natural heritage.

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