Clyde River Clean Up
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September 9,* 2023 10 A.M. – 1 P.M.
*water levels permitting
2022 Clyde River Clean Up
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Eagle Point Wetland Paddle
When: June 21 with a rain date of June 22, 9:30am with a 10am launch
Where: Eagle Point, Halls Creek bridge, Derby
Eagle Point Wildlife Management Area with nearly a mile of lakeshore habitat, provides excellent opportunities to see a variety of wetland and marsh species. Herons, bitterns, snipe, pied-billed grebes, rails, common moorhens, and marsh wrens make up a large portion of the species you will most likely encounter in the marshes of the WMA and many other wetland and terrestrial species.
The paddle will be led by Ben Applegate of MWA.
