Welcome to UpperGrandRiver.org!

Happy New Year! We have a lot planned for 2012 and we want you to be part of it!

The long-awaited MDNR Fisheries Watershed Assessment is out for public review. A copy of the report is available under "What's New" above. This is the final week for public comment - comments are due January 15, 2012.

Educational, policy, and hands-on restoration activities we'll be coordinating in 2012 include:

Our 4th Annual Winter Stonefly Hunt (January 28)
Our first "State-of-the River" Conference (February 18)
A Stormwater-Lunch Webcast Series (March - November)
Construction of a stormwater wetland at RA Greene Park in Jackson (spring/summer)
Shoreline stabilization and installation of native plant buffers at Vandercook Lake County Park (spring/summer)
Dry- and wet-weather water quality sampling (spring/summer
Our Spring and Fall Adopt-A Stream Events
and more

This website, the calendar at left, and our FACEBOOK GROUP PAGE are our principal means of communicating progress and providing draft documents for public review. Please check back here frequently.

Thank you for checking us out. This is a shared website for the Upper Grand River Watershed Alliance, the Jackson Michigan Urban Area MS4 Stormwater Committee, the Jackson County Wellhead Protection Committee, and the Jackson County Conservation District's Upper Grand River Implementation Project (UGRIP).

Within this website you'll find information about the Upper Grand River, its beauty, the threats it faces, and the individuals and organizations that are working to protect and restore the river.

Please let us know what you think. We hope you'll want to learn more and take part in restoring the river.

If you have questions, or suggestions, or if you'd like to receive email alerts about upcoming events and programs, please send us a note at:
contact@uppergrandriver.org.