Community Projects

ANNUAL Beach-to-Beach Clean up

 

2009 Beach-to-Beach Clean Up Crew

 

Please join the Friends of Betsie Bay for the 12th Annual Beach-to-Beach Clean Up on Saturday, April 23rd in Celebration of Earth Day. Each year, volunteers hit the trail picking up all the trash that can be found. We cover the Frankfort beach, the trail all along the bay, the Elberta turn around, and the Elberta beach. Attendance is critical!

Friends of Betsie Bay have been dedicated stewards of the Betsie Bay area for 12 years. We facilitate clean up efforts both in the spring and fall, partnering with the Alliance for the Great Lakes.

FoBB cares deeply about area land use issues, invasive species, and celebrating the natural beauty of this area. All community-based efforts to plan, preserve and protect.

Start: Elberta Farmers’ Market Pavilion
End: When Trail & Beaches are cleaned!
Bring: Friends, Neighbors, Gloves and Enthusiasm
We’ll Provide: Coffee, Tea & Breakfast Bites

Frankfort Tree Board Beautification Project

The Friends of Betsie Bay have offered to partner with the Frankfort City Tree Board in a community project that would promote the Friend’s mission of being good stewards of the Bay. The Tree Board has proposed the Consumer’s Energy substation site as an area that could be improved by such a partnership. This site has been under consideration by the Tree Board for some time as one that could be improved by minimal landscaping, and has asked the City Superintendent to contact Consumer’s for permission to proceed. The Friends of Betsie Bay would extend partnership for this project to the Conservation District, as a source of native species, and perhaps to other entities within the community, and hope in this way to showcase the power of partnerships and to serve as a model encouraging future partnerships.
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Benzie County Resolution: Identify, Control, Eradicate Phragmites – August 2, 2011

 Notification of Herbicide Application to Control the Invasive Phragmites in the Betsie Bay Area

When the non-native common reed—which can reach up to 10-feet tall—becomes rooted along a water’s edge, it blocks light to other plants and inhabits much of the growing area, consequently creating a monoculture. Phragmites can multiply at an astonishing rate because it gives birth at both its head and its base. Seeds are airborne, while [...]

 UPCOMING COMMUNITY EVENTS – APRIL/MAY 2011

APRIL 23rd Friends of Betsie Bay’s Earth Day Work & Play Beach-to-Beach Clean up www.friendsofbetsiebay.info 27th: Invasive Species In Your Back Yard Glen Lake Library, Empire, 6pm Liz Padalino 882-4391 www.garlic-mustard.org. 30th: Natural Shoreline Landscapes Grand Traverse Conservation District, Boardman River Nature Center 9AM – 1PM www.gtcd.org MAY 6th & 7th: FLOW for Water Coalition [...]
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