Over 67 students from Pi Beta Phi School in Tennessee recently spent an afternoon volunteering at three different sites on the Little River (Great Smoky Mountains National Park).
They worked to remove the rock dams that visitors to the park have built over time. The constructed river dams and channels in the river disturb local fishes breeding habits, along with critical habitats for aquatic invertebrates and stream dwelling salamanders.
Local park visitors had built the dams and water channels to create space for tubing down the river, not knowing the effect it would have on the river as a whole.
Great work guys! It looks like they were able to have a good time as well. Check out the photo stream, you can really see a difference.
One of the best parts about the whole day was that no one busted any fingers or toes! Believe me, that’s no small feat.
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