Lamberton Creek Preservation

11/19/2025

The 8th was a wonderful Saturday workday along Lamberton Creek in Riverside Park with the Friends of Grand Rapids Parks volunteer Conservation Crew. There were 14 of us cutting down invasive buckthorn and honeysuckle, opening up the forest floor and providing space for natives to return. Thank you to all the volunteers who joined and to the tireless Melanie Manion for coordinating, leading, and inspiring. Can't wait to see what starts to pop up there next Spring.

The next opportunity to engage with Lamberton Creek is this coming Saturday Nov 22 then again Nov 29 same time at St. Andrews Episcopal Church 1025 3 Mile Rd. NE. You may have seen this in the news (link to story below), but the church recently hired a squad a goats to eat up the invasive bittersweet and buckthorn in their woods. The two upcoming workdays will be hauling brush and limbs, cutting large vines and daubing. All are welcome and needed! See their Facebook post linked below.

https://www.woodtv.com/news/grand-rapids/goats-chow-down-on-invasive-species-in-west-michigan/

https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1Jj11uN7WC/

Top Brush Intervention is a West Michigan company that uses goats to chew through invasive plants and landscapes. It’s an eco-friendly way to target bad plants without any chemicals or machin…

11/06/2025

Two pieces of exciting news to share.

First, Lamberton Creek now has its own page on the Lower Grand River Organization of Watersheds - LGROW website, accessible via the Watersheds drop down. Thank you to the folks at LGROW for the support.

Here is a direct link:
https://www.lgrow.org/lamberton-creek

Second, Friends of Grand Rapids Parks is bringing their amazing newly formed volunteer Conservation Crew to Lamberton Creek in Riverside Park this coming Saturday at 10AM. Anyone can join. Come out for some fun invasives removal work along the creek banks. Hope to see you there.

See more details here:
https://friendsofgrparks.org/event/conservation-weekend-workdays-2/

Park maintenance goes well beyond bathrooms and parking lots. Maintaining the ecosystems is important for wildlife and the people who enjoy the parks. These workdays will primarily remove invasive species and plant native species to improve the biodiversity and ecological health of the park. Each wo...

04/01/2025

Thank you to KCD for the opportunity. Thanks to LGROW for the photo and encouragement. Appreciate that this angle did not reveal how much more professional looking all the other tables were than mine!

📢LGROW would like to give a big shout out to Nathan McArdle for the first-ever Lamberton Creek tabling display! Nathan recently took it upon himself to create a subwatershed group for this lesser known Lower Grand River subshed, and then tabled at the Kent Conservation District Annual Showcase. If you are unfamiliar with Lamberton Creek, check out Nathan's nascent LC page, Lamberton Creek Preservation. More to come soon!

03/30/2025

Hazel and I filled a 60 gallon trash bag from the creek at Riverside Park on Friday. Lots of tennis balls which was odd. This is where Lamberton Creek enters the Grand River.

03/29/2025

***UPDATE***
Unfortunately, Friends of Grand Rapids Parks has had to cancel the Apr 12 workday at Riverside Park. Hopefully, it will be rescheduled later in the year. For now, the next opportunity to launch Lamberton Creek Preservation is the May 13 Eco-Stewardship Workday at Ball Perkins Park. Stay tuned.

My hope is to launch this group into the public so to speak at the April 12th Eco-Stewardship Workday at Riverside Park put on by Friends of Grand Rapids Parks. This event will focus on the wooded area where Lamberton Creek enters the Grand River. Its the perfect launch party. Thank you to Kal for the idea!

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