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CRM presents programs at Rota junior high today
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Posted on Apr 29 2009
The Coastal Resource Management Office will be doing a presentation of its programs today at the Rota Junior High School in connection with the celebration of Environmental Awareness Month.
CRM director John Joyner, who will be joined by some CRM program officers, will talk to students not only about the marine environment but also its relation to the terrestrial system and its impact to the waters around the islands.
“I am very glad about the way the people of Rota are taking care of their environment,’ Joyner said.
He said the municipality has been conducting regular cleanup activities. Just recently, Joyner said, Rota volunteers helped dispose of a vessel that had been abandoned since 1982. Joyner said Rota volunteers also planted some 15,000 seedlings this month.
He also lauded the efforts of government agencies such as the Historical Preservation Office, Division of Environmental Quality, Division of Fish and Wildlife and CRM in helping preserve the CNMI’s pristine waters.
He said CRM works closely with other agencies under a “people first” motto.
“If you don’t’ take protection as your goal and if you don’t take care of the environment, you lose everything,” said Joyner.
Joyner had just arrived from a 10-day consultation meeting in Hawaii regarding the Mariana Trench National Monument, which he is one of its Advisory Council members.
