The Catawba Riverkeeper Foundation is taking part in the Mountain Island Lake Tree Planting hosted by Sierra Club, American Forests, County of Mecklenburg, and Central Piedmont Community College.

We invite the public to join us in planting over 2,500 trees on Saturday November22, 2008 along the Mcdowell Creek. This creek flows directly into Mountain Island Lake, Charlotte Mecklenburg's primary source of water. Like many other creeks in this area, it has been left unprotected and vulnerable to deforestation and encroaching buburbia, which leads to shoreline destabilization, flooding, and dirty water. 

As a part of the Catawba River system, Mountain Island Lake will share in the difficulties of what American Rivers named "The most endangered river."

A thank you luncheon and celebration will take place at the completion of the event. Please visit http://action.sierraclub.org/site/PageNavigator/Fix_Mt_Island_Lake to register for this event and ensure that you will receive a lunch.