HOW WE DO IT

Leachate at Oxbow landfill.

WE EDUCATE  We offer lectures about watershed related subjects and educational programs like “Patagonia's Wild and Scenic Film Festival .”  We offer trips. We organize cleanups to get tires, grocery carts, appliances, bicycles etc. out of creeks and streams both in partnership with other groups and by ourselves

WE RESTORE  
We work to restore the Chattahoochee by removing un-needed dams and thereby allowing return of the fall line shoals, rapids and eco systems. We restore creeks and streams feeding the Chattahoochee by getting the junk out, by replanting buffers and by restoring habitat for plants and animals.

WE RESPOND 
When we get reports of environmentally bad things happening in our part of the Chattahoochee watershed, we check it out, identify the problem and then try to come up with a workable solution. If all else fails we may litigate.

WHAT WE DO…The Chattahoochee River is, in large part, a product of the creeks and steams that empty into it and what they empty into it. Consequently:

Lindsay Creek needs help.

1. We pursue polluters of local creeks and streams.

2. We regularly monitor local creeks and streams for pollution.

3. We organize and participate in stream clean-ups.

4. We arrange participation in Georgia Department of Natural Resources’ Adopt-A-Stream program. 

5. We offer Tuesday evening lectures on subjects ranging from Local Archeology to Dam Removal Up-dates, Rediscovery of the Ivory Bill Woodpecker. 

6. We host Patagonia's Wild & Scenic Environmental Film Festival on Tour. (SEE OUR EVENTS CALENDAR) 

7. We arrange canoe trips on local streams and in the Okefenokee Swamp. 

8. We maintain Georgia Power Foundation's Chattahoochee Natural History Museum which is based on The Chattahoochee’s eco systems and is located in our offices at 1100 Broadway in downtown Columbus. 

9. We provide programs for school children, scout groups, garden clubs and civic clubs based on the Chattahoochee’s eco systems. 

10. We support other local environmental groups and their programs. 

11. We support The Southern Environmental Law Center, Georgia Conservancy, Nature Conservancy, Georgia River Network, and Middle Chattahochee Water Coalition. 

12. We are a River Network Partner and a member of American Rivers. 

13. We conduct research on local creeks, streams and wetlands and on the Chattahoochee often in partnership with faculty and students in Columbus State University's graduate program in Environmental Science.