Activities to Learn, Enjoy, Help
Join The Citizen Science Water Quality Team. Become a trained water quality monitor and learn lab science or spend a half day a month measuring the ecological health of water along the tidal stretch of the river. FFRE has been sampling water quality since 2015 as part of Save the Sound’s Unified Water Study to create the Long Island Sound Report Card.
Explore Abundant Bird Life. Join us on our spring and fall bird walks. Become a regular bird monitor enjoying an array of wading and songbirds from either the Farm River State Park, Beacon Hill or through a pass to Regional Water Authority’s Lake Saltonstall open space.
Clean Up Plastic Polution. Grab your kayak or canoe and join us to continue removing hundreds of pounds of plastic trash during half day river cleanups in June and September! FFRE has removed a massive pile of plastic debris washed in by Superstorms Sandy and Irene a decade ago and is removing the plastic litter flushed downstream every rain even. (2016 Save the Sound newsletter).
Stop a River Choker! Join a coalition of boots on the ground to eradicate the invasive Eurasian Water Chestnut that threatens to choke the freshwater reaches of the river, destroying the habitat of fish and wading birds. Join us at Page’s Pond during June-July for a half day at Page’s Pond in North Branford. Great folks, gorgeous scenery, and a free lunch!
Support Science Based Restoration Projects: Your support fuels FFRE’s role as a catalyst for big projects engineered to restore ecological health and abundance to the river. This includes studying the feasibility of removing the non-functioning tide gate choke point on the river to help restore flow and life-giving oxygen to its waters. And restoring 200 acres of tidal wetlands.
CONTACT US TO GET INVOLVED IN ONE OR MORE OF OUR PROGRAMS
farmriverfriends@gmail.com
Friends of the Farm River and Estuary 