Celebrate Earth Day with the Sierra Club in your part of the state!
Appleton
Join in the 3rd Annual Fox River Earth Day Hike on April 22. Take a 1 mile hike in Telulah Park, with the option to continue for an additional 3.5 miles along the shores of the Fox River. https://www.sierraclub.org/wisconsin/fox-valley/EarthDayHike
Bristol
Join the Pringle Nature Center Work Day on Saturday, April 28 from 9 am – noon at Bristol Woods County Park. Help remove invasive plant species from Bristol Woods County Park. Tools and gloves are available, or you may bring your own. Please dress for the weather with long pants and closed toed shoes. Contact Melissa Warner with questions: melissa.warner3@sbcglobal.net or (262) 639-0918.
Eau Claire
Join West Wisconsin Land Trust's Rick Remington on a hike through the Town of Union Youth Forest to celebrate Earth Day weekend. Find out more and register at https://www.sierraclub.org/wisconsin/chippewa-valley/activities-events
Kenosha
The Southeast Gateway Group will be tabling at the Gateway Technical College in Kenosha on Saturday, April 21, 10am to 2pm. www.gtc.edu/celebrate-earth-day
La Crosse
The Coulee Region Sierra Club will be conducting their highway clean up in conjunction with the Earth Fair's La Crosse River Marsh cleanup day! Meet at 9:00 at the city water well building just west of the intersection of County Highway B and River Valley Drive north of Myrick Park. Wear old clothes and bring work gloves. Orange vests and garbage bags are provided. We’ll work for an hour to 90 minutes. After the cleanup, we can head for Myrick Park for the free lunch for marsh cleanup volunteers. Find out more at https://www.facebook.com/events/154320831914508/
Join the Coulee Region Group at the Community Earth Fair on Sunday, April 29 at the Myrick Park Center! Find out more: http://earthfairlacrosse.com/
Madison
The John Muir Chapter is hosting the annual Locally Grown, Nationally Known fundraiser on Saturday, April 21. It will be a brunch to celebrate spring and grassroots activism! Register if you haven’t yet at https://sierra.secure.force.com/events/details?formcampaignid=7010Z000001PKJvQAO&_ga=2.187620768.94141936.1524161435-604903125.1496863917
Join the John Muir Chapter at the Nelson Institute Earth Day Conference in Madison on 4/23. https://www.nelson.wisc.edu/events/earth-day/2018/index.php
Milwaukee
Join the Spring River Cleanup on Lincoln Creek – part of the Milwaukee Riverkeeper Annual River Cleanup on April 21 at 9 am. The Nearby Nature program will focus their service outing on the section east of 35th and Congress to 34th and Hampton. Contact David Thomas with questions (david@thomerwald.net or 414-810‐2286). Register now and reserve your free t-shirt at: http://bit.ly/2IqnCJA Celebrate afterwards at “Rock the Green” at Estabrook Park – Picnic Area 8 – 12noon-2pm.
Join the Service Day at Urban Ecology Center – Washington Park on April 21 at 9 am at Washington Park, 1857 N. 40 St., Milwaukee. Join us at UEC-Washington Park for a service outing to help clean up Washington Park. Visit with folks from other environmental organizations in the community.
Volunteer with the Urban Ecology Center at any one of their three locations! It's a working celebration of the Earth! Bring your friends and spend a morning volunteering in one of our parks. Learn more and register→ http://bit.ly/1K089KA
Milwaukee, Waukesha, Ozaukee and Washington Counties
Volunteer anywhere in the 4-county area by helping to clean up your favorite river! The Milwaukee Riverkeeper Annual Spring Cleanup is April 21 from 9 am to noon at 60 locations on 3 rivers! Sign up: http://www.Milwaukeeriverkeeper.org or call 414-287-0207 Celebrate afterwards at “Rock the Green” at Estabrook Park – Picnic Area 8 – 12noon-2pm.
Neenah
Join the Fox Valley Sierra Group and the Boy Scouts at Arrowhead Park in Neenah on Saturday, April 21st to celebrate Earth Day with a park clean up. Meet at the Dolly Smith Park Shelter at the west end of the park. Picnic lunch to follow. https://www.facebook.com/events/1705453342849292/
Celebrate the 50th anniversary of the National Trails System Act and the Wild & Scenic Rivers Act! Join Alan and Diana Lawrence for a leisurely hike around the Fox River in urban Appleton. We will hike a loop of approx. 4 miles on pavement. Meet at 9:30 and be finished by late morning. In earlier years industry occupied the river and transformed it with locks and bridges. Now the river is part of the Fox-Wisconsin Heritage Water Trail and serves the public and wildlife.
Level: Easy
Cost: Free but registration required.
Signup Instructions: Contact a trip leader for details on times, and location. Alan Lawrence
Racine
Join Weed Out! Racine on Saturday, April 28 at 9:00 am – noon at Colonial Park in Racine. Help remove invasive plant species from Colonial Park. Tools and gloves are available, or you may bring your own. Please dress for the weather with long pants and closed toed shoes. Contact Melissa Warner with questions: melissa.warner3@sbcglobal.net or (262) 639-0918.
Can’t make it in person? Consider celebrating Earth Day by receiving a no-obligation quote for a solar panel system for your home through Sierra Club’s Group Buy program through SunVest! Learn more at http://sunvest.com/programs/sierraclub/