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A rusted-out stove and gnarled steel jut out of the riverbank. Save Our Seine, an environmental advocacy organization, is celebrating 30 years of its summer river keeper team, which picks up litter around Winnipeg’s third-largest river. NIC ADAM / FREE PRESS Katherine Terra (left) and Monique Ellison hunt for garbage and debris along the Seine River.
Co-ordinator Monique Ellison is starting her second year with the team. She and three other river keepers get into a canoe and paddle up and down the Seine clearing brush, picking up trash and monitoring invasive species. “It’s just a very special place.
The amount of wildlife you get to see is beautiful. I hold the Seine River pretty near and dear to my heart,” said Ellison on Friday. The team has pulled out everything from shopping carts to bunches of coconuts.
Ellison’s next task is pulling out an old mattress that’s too big for the canoe. The crew spends up to six hours a day in the canoe. Because the water level is so low, canoeing is the best way to tra.
