Friends of The Little Plover River

About Us

 

Appreciation Day Event-Youth Education

The first Little Plover River Appreciation Day was held in May 2007 and it has become a very successful annual educational event.

Every May the Friends of the Little Plover River host 140 fourth grade students from the nearby Roosevelt and Plover/Whiting Elementary Schools.  Students walk to the Little Plover River Park and bring a brown bag lunch to enjoy before the afternoon's hands on activities.

While at the Park, students participate in activities that have water conservation, educational and recreational themes.  Each student is given a "Passport" to be stamped at every station plus a bag to hold items such as Little Plover River buttons, tree seedlings, fishing lures and handouts.

The students, in groups of 20, walk the park trails along the River, stopping at seven stations, including:

  • Fly Tying

  • Fly Casting

  • Water Conservation

  • Trout Shocking/Viewing

  • Would You Drink This Water?

  • Stream Flow Monitoring and Macroinvertebrate Viewing

  • The Incredible Journey

  • Aquatic Invasives

    Every year, students have made and written thank you "cards" which are greatly appreciated and read by event volunteers.

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Latest News

Events

13th Annual Little Plover River Appreciation Day

May 3, 2019
Rain date May 10 
Little Plover River Park

PAST EVENTS

Presentation of Little Plover River Modeling Study

April 12, 2016  6:00 pm to 8:00 
UWSP. Noel Fine Arts Center, Michelsen Theater

A Little Plover River "Walk" with Robert Freckman

May 16, 2013  6:00 PM
Little Plover River Park Shelter

Chicago Fly Fishing Outfitters & American Rivers Event

A discussion of American Rivers' Most Endangered Rivers listing of Wisconsin's Little Plover River

April 24, 2013 5:00 - 7:00 PM

Chicago, Illinois

 

 

Contact Us

Friends of the Little Plover River
c/o Golden Sands RC&D
1100 Main Steet, Suite 150 Stevens Point, WI, 54481
Phone:

Barb Gifford 715 344-3539
barbaragifford@charter.net


Web Site Credits

The mission of the Friends of the Little Plover River is to improve the health of the Little Plover River and its associated shore lands by promoting wise management of water and land resources in the Little Plover River watershed. (c) 2012 Friends of the Little Plover River