Ranger Rick Raccoon reminisces with his animal friends about the day they saved Shady Pond from trash and pollutants and decided to form Ranger Rick's Nature Club to guard and protect wild and beautiful places forever.
Reluctant to help out on Earth Day, Boomer Badger is convinced by his animal friends that there are many ways for individuals to work to help keep the world clean.
After Chester Chipmunk is bagged with a pile of fallen leaves and almost thrown into a landfill, he and his friends hear from Ranger Rick about more environmentally sound uses for leaves.
While in Montana, Ranger Rick Raccoon and his animal friends find out about a project to use beavers to help renew overgrazed land by damming streams and creating ponds.