TAKE THE RED CEDAR RIVER PLEDGE
As much as we all have the privilege to enjoy our shared waterways, we also have a shared responsibility to protect and care for them. The Red Cedar River pledge is a promise to protect, care, and leave the Red Cedar River in better condition than we found it.
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TO PROTECT, CARE, AND IMPROVE
The Red Cedar River is a scenic, narrow, winding, treasured river. Beginning in Livingston County, it flows 51 miles until it meets the Grand River in Lansing, our state’s capital city.
It is a beloved icon of Michigan State University and the focus of many campus traditions. Its history with MSU is as vast as the land through which it flows. So important, it is part of MSU’s fight song, sung by tens of thousands on Spartan game day. As the Red Cedar passes through campus, on the north side is the five-acre W.J. Beal Botanical Garden, the oldest continuous botanical garden in the United States.
Making it way through Lansing, also on the north side, is the 102-acre Potter Park Zoo. It is home to over 350 animals including lions, tigers, leopards, and other rescued exotic and domestic species. With its official opening in 1920 it became Michigan's first public zoo.
When thinking about the Red Cedar River we can’t forget its early history, when it was primarily used as a waterway for travel and trade. The Red Cedar River flows through the lands of the Ottawa and Ojibway, and as such it was a shared space for the Anishinaabe to gather and help facilitate travel across southern Michigan.
Because of our Red Cedar River’s rich history and traditions, importance to the connecting communities, we ask that you take the Red Cedar River pledge. It just takes one-minute. Simply down to the next section and complete filling out the Red Cedar River pledge. It will take less than 1-minute.
The Red Cedar River is a scenic, narrow, winding, treasured river. Beginning in Livingston County, it flows 51 miles until it meets the Grand River in Lansing, our state’s capital city.
It is a beloved icon of Michigan State University and the focus of many campus traditions. Its history with MSU is as vast as the land through which it flows. So important, it is part of MSU’s fight song, sung by tens of thousands on Spartan game day. As the Red Cedar passes through campus, on the north side is the five-acre W.J. Beal Botanical Garden, the oldest continuous botanical garden in the United States.
Making it way through Lansing, also on the north side, is the 102-acre Potter Park Zoo. It is home to over 350 animals including lions, tigers, leopards, and other rescued exotic and domestic species. With its official opening in 1920 it became Michigan's first public zoo.
When thinking about the Red Cedar River we can’t forget its early history, when it was primarily used as a waterway for travel and trade. The Red Cedar River flows through the lands of the Ottawa and Ojibway, and as such it was a shared space for the Anishinaabe to gather and help facilitate travel across southern Michigan.
Because of our Red Cedar River’s rich history and traditions, importance to the connecting communities, we ask that you take the Red Cedar River pledge. It just takes one-minute. Simply down to the next section and complete filling out the Red Cedar River pledge. It will take less than 1-minute.
