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LUDINGTON — AFFEW (A Few Friends of the Environment of the World) will offer a variety of events in September. Those events include:
Cartier Park Invasives Species Pulling
Tuesday, September 9, 10 a.m. to noon
Through the end of September, AFFEW will meet twice per month to remove a variety of invasive plant species at Cartier Park. A discussion to identify the plants will take place before the event begins. AFFEW partners with the City of Ludington, Mason-Lake Conservation District and North Country CISMA to remove/treat the aggressive plants.
Email Sara Bolan to be added to the list to know when the next session will take place.
Microplastics in the Great Lakes
Tuesday, September 16, 7 p.m.
Lakeshore Resource Network, 920 N. Tinkham Ave.
Art Hirsch, retired environmental engineer will be sharing his knowledge on microplastics.
This will be an enlightening, entertaining and informative presentation. He will share information about how microplastics impact us and what we can do to address this problem in our Great Lakes.
In a recent nationwide poll conducted by the Environmental Group 5 Gyres, to over 1,100 participants from 18 years and older, over 23% stated they never heard of microplastics; of the remaining 77% over half did not know exactly what microplastics are or what they are about.
Knowledgeable Americans are most concerned about microplastics’ impact on their health (90%), links to serious health conditions (89%), and their presence inside the human body (90%), the general environment (89%), and wildlife (89%).
Art Hirsch is from the Michigan Microplastics Coalition and is an environmental engineer with over 30 years of water quality experience. He lives in Boulder Colorado and spends his summers in the Ludington/Pentwater Michigan area. He is originally from Michigan, and he received his Bachelor of Science degree from Michigan State University in Fisheries and Wildlife and a Master of Science degree from the University of Colorado in Environmental Engineering.
International Beach Sweep
Saturday, September 20, 10 a.m.-noon
Thousands of volunteers will clean and celebrate Great Lakes shorelines as part of the International Coastal Cleanup. Volunteers on all five lakes and in each of the eight Great Lakes states will join volunteers all over the world who care for and take a stand for their local waters. AFFEW will tally all the trash collected which will then be sent to the International Coastal Cleanup database. Gloves and bags will be provided. Meet at the south concession stand in Stearns Park. This will be the last beach sweep of the year.
For more info about this event and others go to affew.org
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