Akron
Akron Zoo is the place to be this Saturday, April 18 10-5.
River Guardians Ohio will be set up near Grizzly Ridge. We hope to share with youth how they can help keep our waterways clean for the wildlife!!
Sunday afternoon River Guardians Ohio met up with Dominque at the Cordova road project area
She is a resident that is passionate about the neighborhood going all the way back to her childhood, playing in the woods and water while exploring the trails around her home, and wants to see the same for her children and grandchildren. We are very excited to call her a friend. We pulled about 63…
Want to know how your environment is doing? Ask the frogs.
This Western Chorus Frog literally hopped over to me at the Cordova project area last week. I took this picture to show what he wanted to tell me. ” Please help us”, the little one says. “It isn’t good here”. Look at the left front foot where the toes are fused and the right rear…
A bird’s eye view of the Cordova Ave property that River Guardians Ohio has been asked to assist in mitigating the trash, cleaning up the area and restoring this treasure in the middle of urban Akron.
It is a VERY ambitious project but with the help of Akron City Council, the City Service Department, Black Hawk Foundation, Let’s Grow Akron, Summit Soil and Water Conservation District and the surrounding property owners, we can show what passionate people can accomplish.
Planning a celebration that involves introducing any potential pollutants to a waterway must have a proactive plan for prevention.
To my knowledge (I certainly could be wrong) this is a first. Mark Greer of the Akron Bicentennial Commission, Ohio & Erie Canalway Coalition, Dan Rice and his Team, City of Akron and River Guardians Ohio have put together a plan that will truly leave the waterway cleaner when we are done than what is…
Soooo…I was going to post about my saga with the phone, however, I was pulled away today for a collaboration with the upcoming Akron Bicentennial Celebration April 5th.
Can you guess what might be going on here? I hope to have the phone video tomorrow. #riverkeepersohio UPDATE: Akron is planning a luminary display if weather permits. They are doing the right thing and being proactive with concerns that what they want to do will not pollute the waterways. My hat is off to…
Booms cleared, reset and back at work.
102 pounds in 4 bags. Thanks again to the Service Team at the City of Akron for picking up what we collect! With the weather warming, we will get to service some of the other booms soon and start deploying new ones in the near future. Not just the same old places.
2024 Year in review for River Guardians Ohio
From designing our trash boom, getting it approved by ODNR at the beginning of the year, to coordinating with Summit Metro Parks, City of Akron, City of Norton; working with property owners for access, South Street Ministries and Ohio Erie Canalway Coalition, who help pull out some of the trash collected in the booms. Our…
