What you can do!

• Pick up dog waste (use hashtag)
  http://www.delawareestuary.org/dog-waste
  http://keepitcleanpartnership.org/wp-content/uploads/pdfs/KICPDogPoopFactSheet.pdf
• Pick up litter (use hashtag)
  http://www.litterproject.com/  http://www.philadelphiastreets.com/events/cleanup-events/  http://unitedbyblue.com/collections/cleanups
• Take your car to a car wash (use hashtag) https://cfpub.epa.gov/npstbx/files/KSMO_CarWashing.pdf
• Volunteer to help with PDE's citizen science mussel surveys
  http://delawareestuary.org/mussel-survey-program
• Never use freshwater mussels as bait for fish! It’s wrong and sometimes illegal!
  http://www.michigan.gov/documents/dnr/2015-MIFishingGuide-April10_486679_7.pdf
• Minimize or eliminate the use of chemicals, pesticides, and fertilizers in and around your home and control runoff!
  http://delawareestuary.org/how-guides
• Volunteer and support stream-side restoration to plant trees, shrubs, and other plants to stabilize banks, prevent erosion, and provide cooling shade for freshwater mussels during hot summer months!
  https://susquehannatu.com/2016/05/08/volunteers-needed-for-riparian-buffer-restoration/
• Support projects that restore in-stream habitats for fish and promote fish passage, such as dam removal!
  http://pawatersheds.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/damremoval.pdf
• Only rain should go down the storm drain! Dumping oil, trash and anything other than water in a storm drain will pollute waterways!
  http://www.phillywatersheds.org/what_were_doing/community_partnerships/programs/storm-drain-marking
• Be careful walking in streams, you never know who you are stepping on! Respect wildlife!
  https://lnt.org/learn/7-principles
• Take a photo of you learning about mussels and use it in your social media and hashtag #MightyMussel to raise awareness
• Level up to Field Scientist by contacting PDE to attend a mussel workshop 
  http://delawareestuary.org/mussel-survey-program
• Level up to Top Researcher by conducting your own mussel survey (don’t worry, we’ll tell you how!)
  http://delawareestuary.org/mussel-survey-program

Online: What can you find out about the ways to act above? Can you make a poster to help make others aware how to help?