Annual Musky Clean Up Saturday, April 12th

[Rusty Spinner]

Come out in support of our partners at the Musconetcong Watershed Association for the annual Musconetcong water-shed clean up on Saturday, April 12th from 9 am until noon. TU members and other volunteers typically gather at one of three locations and bring our waders so that we can reach debris that has made its way into the river. Local youth including Scouts, church groups and others clean the sides of the roads through-out the watershed because roadside trash always makes it way into the river when it rains or when the wind blows.

Volunteers can meet at Hampton Borough Park right off route 31(Valley Road or Main Street to Park Drive into the park next to the river). Volunteers clean up the middle section of the river from this location. The lower river meets at the former paper mill at Cyphers Road off rt. 627, Riegelsville Warren Glen Road and works downstream to the Delaware River. Our upper river clean up crew meets at Hackettstown’s San Bar Park/Alumni Field off Willow Grove Street which is off route 46 in town. Garbage bags, gloves and bottled water will be supplied and collections sites will be told to our volun-teers at the 9 am meeting time at the location of your choice.

Bring your rods and fish the hatch afterward!

Contact Brian Cowden for more details at: BCowden@tu.org

(or just PM me here if you are planning to help this spring)

Thanks

 

[lightenup]

Come out in support of our partners at the Musconetcong Watershed Association for the annual Musconetcong water-shed clean up on Saturday, April 12th from 9 am until noon. TU members and other volunteers typically gather at one of three locations and bring our waders so that we can reach debris that has made its way into the river. Local youth including Scouts, church groups and others clean the sides of the roads through-out the watershed because roadside trash always makes it way into the river when it rains or when the wind blows.

Volunteers can meet at Hampton Borough Park right off route 31(Valley Road or Main Street to Park Drive into the park next to the river). Volunteers clean up the middle section of the river from this location. The lower river meets at the former paper mill at Cyphers Road off rt. 627, Riegelsville Warren Glen Road and works downstream to the Delaware River. Our upper river clean up crew meets at Hackettstown’s San Bar Park/Alumni Field off Willow Grove Street which is off route 46 in town. Garbage bags, gloves and bottled water will be supplied and collections sites will be told to our volun-teers at the 9 am meeting time at the location of your choice.

Bring your rods and fish the hatch afterward!

Contact Brian Cowden for more details at: BCowden@tu.org

(or just PM me here if you are planning to help this spring)

Thanks

Can't you people schedule some of this stuff on Sundays....Some of us work every Saturday..... I will be there in spirit....

 

[Rusty Spinner]

Can't you people schedule some of this stuff on Sundays....Some of us work every Saturday..... I will be there in spirit....

So can I count on you for the Sunday, March 30th willow stake plantings?

I haven't yet posted it because I'm awaiting a harvest permit from State Parks, but the plan is to cut native willows (black willows and pussywillows) at the former Tilcon quarry in Allamuchy Mountain State Park along the Musky on Saturday, March 29th. Then we would plant them the next day at several locations with fresh volunteers or those masochists willing to work back to back days.

 

[lightenup]

So can I count on you for the Sunday, March 30th willow stake plantings?

I haven't yet posted it because I'm awaiting a harvest permit from State Parks, but the plan is to cut native willows (black willows and pussywillows) at the former Tilcon quarry in Allamuchy Mountain State Park along the Musky on Saturday, March 29th. Then we would plant them the next day at several locations with fresh volunteers or those masochists willing to work back to back days.

Make it happen captain..I'll be there with the kid in tow.......

 

[Oliver10]

So can I count on you for the Sunday, March 30th willow stake plantings?

I haven't yet posted it because I'm awaiting a harvest permit from State Parks, but the plan is to cut native willows (black willows and pussywillows) at the former Tilcon quarry in Allamuchy Mountain State Park along the Musky on Saturday, March 29th. Then we would plant them the next day at several locations with fresh volunteers or those masochists willing to work back to back days.

Willow does well when freshly transplanted like you are suggesting. it does much better if you cut it a few weeks earlier before any chance of leaf out and soaked the ending in a bucket of water. They would probably all have roots by time of planting my way.

 

[Rusty Spinner]

Willow does well when freshly transplanted like you are suggesting. it does much better if you cut it a few weeks earlier before any chance of leaf out and soaked the ending in a bucket of water. They would probably all have roots by time of planting my way.

No need to pre-soak them based on our projected harvest date. If we cut a week or more later, then they will be showing signs of leaf-out. But late March we're still good to go. We get nearly 75% or more success and what typically doesn't do well is either from deer, beavers or when people pull them out which is far more frequent than you'd imagine in public areas, unfortunately.