Fifth-grade students from Heritage Elementary School crowded around a large bucket. Behind them, water from Camanche Reservoir rushed into the Mokelumne River and downstream, but the students weren’t looking at the river. Their eyes were on the bucket. They were trying to count how many little salmon fry were swimming around in the bucket. “We Click to read the full post.
Category: Mokelumne River
Needham students learn about Lodi Lake through leaf packs
On November 21, the shore of Lodi Lake was abuzz with activity. The fifth-graders in Mrs. Martina Ruiz’s class at Needham Elementary School were there to work alongside Barbara Transon of Lodi Unified School District, Watershed Program Coordinator Kathy Grant of the City of Lodi, and U.S. Fish and Wildlife biologists Donnie Ratcliff, Kes Benn and Erin Click to read the full post.
Needham Elementary students make leaf packs
On Thursday morning, students in Ms. Martina Ruiz’s fifth-grade class at Needham Elementary School became citizen scientists for a few hours. Their mission: Create eight leaf packs weighing exactly 30 grams each, which will be used to monitor the health of Lodi Lake and the Mokelumne River. But first, they had to review what they Click to read the full post.
A letter of thanks from Kathy Grant
All, THANK YOU, LODI LAKE –MOKELUMNE RIVER COASTAL CLEANUP 2016 VOLUNTEERS! We did it again — broke our past records: 330 people came out to work at the 14th annual Lodi Lake-Mokelumne River Coastal Cleanup on Saturday, September 17, 2016. We were almost overwhelmed, if it were not for the awesome front table sign in team: Super-heroes Krista Click to read the full post.
330 volunteers turn out for the Coastal Cleanup at Lodi Lake
Bright and early this morning, about 330 people — from Lodi and Tokay high schools, Girl Scout and Boy Scout troops, the Heritage School Earthkeepers and more — turned out to help clean up Lodi Lake. The event was Lodi’s contribution to the annual California Coastal Cleanup, with the goal of cleaning up trash before Click to read the full post.
Pitch in at the 14th annual Coastal Cleanup at Lodi Lake
When: Saturday, Sept. 17 from 9 a.m. to noon. Registration begins at 8 a.m. Where: Lodi Lake Park Discovery Center, 1101 W. Turner Road, Lodi. Every year, on the third Saturday in September, people join together at sites all over California to take part in the state’s largest volunteer event, California Coastal Cleanup Day. Families, friends, coworkers, Click to read the full post.