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SPREE Force: Special Agent Training, SPREE Camp July 14-18, 2025

July 24, 2025

Our second session of SPREE Force: Special Agent Training camp was a blast! New and returning campers embarked on an exciting adventure this week, as they learned all about SPREE’s …

Camp, Elementary, SPREE, Stewardship
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SPREE Staff are ready to teach kids about beavers at Beaver Bonanza

April Events Recap!

May 2, 2022

April was quite the busy month here at the Greenway Foundation, as earth month always should be! Not only were we doing our regular thing working towards a cleaner South …

Elementary, Events, SPREE
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Happy International Beaver Day!

April 6, 2022

It is International beaver day and at the Greenway Foundation we are always excited to celebrate these environmental engineers! Our environmental education program’s mascot is even a beaver – and …

General, SPREE
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Beavers: Building Nature’s Neighborhoods

April 7, 2020

Beavers (like SPREE’s mascot, Chompers!) are cute, funky looking creatures that have inspired human curiosity for centuries, but did you know that they play an essential role in our river …

SPREE
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Animal Fun Facts: Beaver Edition

May 14, 2018

Happy International Beaver Day! To celebrate, here are some facts about the beaver and a Native American story from the Ojibwe tribe about how the beaver got his tail. Beaver …

SPREE
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April 7th is International Beaver Day

April 5, 2017

MORE THAN JUST A FURRY FACEInternational Beaver Day is a great opportunity to celebrate the hard work of Denver’s furriest engineers! As integral members of the South Platte River community, …

SPREE
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Campers Explore Nocturnal Animals and Beavers

November 7, 2016

SPREE’s Fall Holiday Camps are underway, getting kids to the South Platte River on their days off from school. In October, SPREE held two days of programming at Johnson-Habitat Park …

Elementary, Family, SPREE
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