Some of the trash picked up at Misssiquoi NWR by volunteers at Green Up Day - Photo Credit: ken sturm/usfws

Volunteers from IBM and the community helping with the refuge's Green Up Day - Photo Credit: ken sturm/usfws

Each year the refuge asks for volunteer assistance to help pick up trash along the refuge's floodplain forest as part of Vermont's annual "Green Up Day". Thanks to a special relationship with IBM and with the help of several local volunteers the refuge annually removes enough trash to fill a dumpster each spring. This year we had the help of 12 volunteers who dedicated their morning to "Greening Up" their National Wildlife Refuge!