Keeping Current

For a variety of reasons we have changed our name.  The Yadkin Pee Dee River Alliance is now the Yadkin Riverkeeper. 

Shacktown Falls on North Deep Creek

Photograph by Dan Heimsoth 

Text Box: We Have a New Name!

Volume 1, December 2007
Text Box: NEWS UPDATE Text Box: WE HAVE A VISION! Text Box: The Board defined the organization’s mission on November 4, 2007. We hope you like it: The Yadkin Riverkeeper’s mission is to respect, protect, and improve the Yadkin Pee Dee River Basin through education, advocacy, and action. Text Box: WE’RE ON A MISSION!

This holiday season, give a gift that reflects your loved one’s concern for clean water and strong

communities—give a supporting membership to the

Yadkin Riverkeeper.

 

Holiday gift Membership

SUGGESTED DONATION FOR HOLIDAY CARDS

Individual: $25 or 5 for $100

Family: $50

Please send a check with the contact information for your loved ones and we will send them a special card from you. 

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As we have not yet received our 501(c)(3) status, please write a check to our fiscal sponsor “The Catawba Riverkeeper® Foundation”, with FYPDR in the memo line. 

We have had a busy first few months, drawing up our mission and vision statements as well as the paperwork to gain official nonprofit status.  Most importantly, we have completed and filed our application for Riverkeeper® certification from the Waterkeeper Alliance Board of Directors.  If you would like to see a completed copy of this application please contact our President Zoë Gamble Hanes at YadkinPeeDeeRiver@gmail.com or 336-293-9078. 

 

Many pressing issues face our river basin today—and tomorrow. Together, we can meet the challenge.  Look for us in the news as we are beginning a concerted effort to bring awareness to Yadkin Riverkeeper.  Over the next six months we aim to secure status as a Riverkeeper® program, build our membership base, purchase a boat, move into a permanent office, publish a website, create a hotline, begin bringing members onto the river, engage the public and hire a Riverkeeper®.  challenge. 

We are creating a clean and healthy river that sustains life and is cherished by its people.

 

To achieve this vision, we seek to accomplish the following:  

 

· Sustain a Riverkeeper® program;  

· Bring legal action to enforce our state and federal environmental laws;

· Measurably improve water quality;  

· Re-establish native bio-diversity;  

· Preserve and enhance the forest canopy;

· Teach  and practice a “river ethic” of ecological respect to all ages.