The Preservers GeoTour
Nature’s Superheroes, The Preservers!
You can follow their adventure through The Preservers GeoTour and stop at each Geocache location to experience part of their story.
GeoTour Locations
Grand Master Snapper (GCA6W9T)
The Frog (GCA6W9V)
The Green (GCA6W9W)
D.K. The Decomposer (GCA6W9X)
Owl Girl (GCA6W9Z)
Red Hawk (GCA6WA1)
Queen Bee (GCA6WA3)
Miss Sunflower (GCA6WA4)
Monarch (GCA6WA5)
The Preservers - Grand Master Snapper
My Name is Grand Master Snapper and I have lived here for many years, and throughout those years I have seen many things change including my home.
The environment where I live has been threatened by forces greater than me and I cannot stop them by myself, I need a group of friends that can help me fight these evil forces.
My friends need to be brave and fearless and they need to have the power to preserve the environment. In fact, they need to be more than just my friends, they need to be SUPERHEROES!
SUPERHEROS are people that work to protect our homes from forces that threaten them, SUPERHEROES seek to identify these evil forces and then take action to eliminate them and finally work to restore our environment.
Come along with me as we find these SUPERHEROES and bring them together so that together we can fight forces that threaten our homes.
Good luck my friends!
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This is my home, my friends. The wetlands are part of the foundation of our water resources and are vital to the health of waterways and communities that live downstream.
Wetlands can be bogs, fens, or marshes, they all act like a sponge, trapping water and filtering out pollution.
When they become totally saturated wetlands feed surrounding waters, such as rivers or groundwater aquifers.
These wetlands provide a unique habitat for many plants and animals providing a safe haven for nesting and foraging.
Michigan has over 2300 native plant species 50% of which are wetland species, and 25% of those are endangered or threatened.
More than 40% of the 575 vertebrate species in Michigan live in the wetlands:
• 15 of the 66 mammals
• 180 of the 375 birds
• 22 of the 28 reptiles
• all of the 23 amphibian species
TAKE ACTION!
• Protect wetland areas by not littering
• Reduce pesticide use around wetlands
• Keep invasive pests from establishing in the area