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Two Rivers Coalition
Welcome! Explore and discover with us, the Black and Paw Paw Rivers and all the streams that flow into them! Learn what you can do to help protect and improve the wonderful resources in these watersheds.
Two Rivers Coalition, Inc., is a citizen-based group working to protect the health of the Black River and Paw Paw River Watersheds through conservation, education, and advocacy.
Our goal is to be your source of information about the Black and Paw Paw River Watersheds here in Southwest Michigan. We hope our web site will provide you with accurate and thought-provoking information about these watersheds and the community we live in.
We believe that an informed and engaged community is the key to making this one of the best places to live and play. Please joins us in our efforts to better understand, conserve and protect these watersheds. Our watershed awareness events are listed below.
Please look around and let us know if there is information that you would like for us to include on our web site.
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Watershed Awareness Events in 2023:
April 24 - TRC Presentation at the Audubon Society of Kalamazoo Meeting: TRC's Prothonotary Warbler Partnership
Program Description:
Two Rivers Coalition is exploring a partnership with Prothonotary Warblers to better understand the remaining ecologically valuable floodplain forest in the Paw Paw and Black River Watersheds which drains 733 square miles over 4 Southwest Michigan counties.
Advocating for these large watershed’s requires both focused and good quality data. Community science data collected on Ebird for distribution of birds has been able to supply this need in many ways. Come learn about this partnership and how you can help protect these watersheds.
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May 7 - Annual Spring Stream Monitoring with VBCD
Click for Details: Stream Monitoring
More details to come.
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June 24 - TRC's Prothonotary Warbler Paddle Trip
Learn about TRC's Partnership with Prothonotary Warblers
More details to come.
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September ? - River Clean Up with VBCD
More details to come.
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October 1 - Annual Fall Stream Monitoring with VBCD
Click to learn more about our Stream Monitoring
More details to come.
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October ? - TRC Fall Color Paddle Trip
Usually around the 3rd week in October when leaves at or near peak fall colors we paddle the lower parts of the Black River. More details to come.
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December ? - TRC Annual Meeting - 15 Years!
More details to come.
This event is free of charge and open to the general public.
The address of the Van Buren Conference Center is 490 S. Paw Paw Street, Lawrence, MI, 49064.