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2016 EARTH DAY SERVICE PROJECTS, SATURDAY, APRIL 23, 2016. BE ROOTED IN YOUR COMMUNITY!

Registration is now open for all Earth Day Projects! OSU Students, Faculty and Staff may register here. Pre-registration is required.

This year, the Center for Civic Engagement invites you to join in on Saturday, April 23, 2016 for their annual Earth Day of Service. Oregon State students, staff, faculty, and their children/dependents are invited to participate in this event and celebration of planet Earth. Transportation will be provided but volunteers would be willing to bike to the closer service locations in order to help reduce carbon emissions are requested.

Here is a summary of each project for Earth Day of Service 2016:

• Smoke-Free Campus Clean-Up (Project time: 9:00-11:00am): Volunteers will be picking up cigarette butts and litter on the OSU campus
• Park Clean-Up with Corvallis Parks & Recreation (Project time: 9:00am-12:00pm): Volunteers will be trimming shrubbery, removing invasive species, performing amenity repair, and more
• Land Conservation with Greenbelt Land Trust (Projejct time: 9:30am-1:00pm): Volunteers will be removing remnant barbed wire fence that is a hazard to equipment and wildlife alike
• Forest Restoration with Diverse Perspectives in Forestry Group and Institute for Applied Ecology (Project time: 9:45am-1:45pm): Volunteers will be doing scotch broom invasive species removal
• Campus Tree Planting (Project time: 10:00am-12:00pm): Volunteers will plant 10 cherry trees on the OSU campus
• Earth Day Craft N’ Care (Project time: 10:00am-12:00pm): Volunteers will be crafting for a local community organization
• Oak Creek Invasive Species Removal (Project time: 10:00am-12:00pm): Volunteers will be removing invasive blackberry and ivy in the Oak Creek Bioswale, near Reser Stadium
• Pollinator Garden Creation on Campus (Project time: 1:00-4:00pm): Volunteers will plant a pollinator garden near Linus Pauling
• Wetlands Conservancy Day Tripper (Project time: 10:00am-2:30pm): Volunteers will be picking up debris on the tidal marsh along the Oxbow and Starr Creek parcels, and volunteers will prune invasive ivy in the uplands. Note this project takes place at the Oregon coast and participants will meet at 8am on campus and return to campus around 4pm.

Please note that check-in is required at the SEC Plaza 30-45 minutes prior to the listed project time above.  Snacks and refreshments (including morning coffee) will be provided. Lunch will be provided for the Day Tripper. Collaborating organizations include the College of Forestry/Diverse Perspectives in Forestry Group, the Student Sustainability Initiative, and SOLVE. Accommodation requests related to a disability can be made by contacting 541-737-3041 or cce@oregonstate.edu.

Go Beyond Earth Day and attend one of the many other campus events in celebration of Earth Day!