MSU Alternative Spring Break

March 9-13, 2009

A group of student volunteers from Michigan State University spent their spring break volunteering for the Hiwassee River Watershed Coalition.  The students were participating in an Alternative Spring Break program offered at MSU.  Alternative Spring Break is a student organization run by undergraduates and advised by a full time staff person from MSU’s Center for Service-Learning & Civic Engagement. The volunteers helped HRWC clear non-native, invasive plants like Chinese privet and multi-flora rose from streamside buffer areas along previously restored reaches of Brasstown and Little Brasstown Creeks and the Valley River.  This work was recommended in a report released in January 2008 that summarizes three years of intensive monitoring of HRWC’s stream restoration projects in the Brasstown Creek watershed.  For more information about the MSU Alternative Spring Break program, visit the web site: http://asb.msu.edu/