Beatty Farm buffer planting on May 22nd on Musky

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Musky Home Rivers Action Alert<o></o>​

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What: Riparian tree and shrub planting along <st1><st1>Musconetcong</st1><st1> </st1></st1>tributary (West Portal Brook)<o></o>
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When: Saturday, May 22^th from <st1:time hour="8" minute="00" w:st="on">8 am</st1:time> - ? Come out for any time that you can help out even if you arrive late and leave early!<o></o>
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Where: Beatty Farm which has a sign out front “BSB Holsteins” at 244 Asbury – <st1:street w:st="on"><st1:address w:st="on">West Portal Road</st1:address></st1:street> (county road 643) in Asbury 08802. This is a short distance off routes 78 and 173. Drive down the dirt farm lane to the barn and you will be instructed where to park. <o></o>
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What to bring: Work gloves, hip waders and/or old clothes.<o></o>
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Please contact: Brian Cowden at: bcowden@njtu.org or by phone at 201-230-3383 or just come on out for as long as you can!<o></o><o></o>

This site is a diary farm on the banks of the <st1><st1>Musconetcong</st1><st1> </st1></st1>with an important spawning tributary running through it. TU is planning a river restoration project using Joseph Urbani & Associates out of <st1><st1:city w:st="on">Bozeman</st1:city>, <st1:state w:st="on">MT</st1:state></st1> to complete the river restoration and fish habitat enhancement project in 2011. The funds for the riparian restoration came from the North Jersey Resource & Conservation Development and the future river restoration funding will come from the Natural Resources Conservation Service, a part of the USDA. TU will perform a second riparian buffer planting on this property in the fall of 2010 using USFWS funds to increase the existing buffer along the <st1><st1>Musconetcong</st1><st1> </st1></st1>River; the plantings on the 22^nd will be on the West Portal Brook section of this farm. <o></o>
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We need lots of helping hands for this project. It will be a shining example of conservation once we are completed with all of the buffer plantings and river restoration.<o></o>

 

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Another buffer planted! Yesterday members of 6 NJTU chapters came out to the Beatty Farm to complete a 12 year project to fence diary cattle out of an important Musky trib and plant a lasting buffer within the newly excluded area along this trib now that the cattle cannot trample the streambanks any longer. This was the 2nd riparian buffer planting project on this farm by TU with one more planned for this fall to double the current 25' buffer along the Musky and to augment the buffer we finished yesterday on the tributary where it jogs back into/near the lower crop fields. I'll try to post some pix later, but tree and shrub planting along a river/stream is pretty self-explanatory

Thanks to all who showed up to help, we even gave out free beer and pizza (really). 4 Advils later and I'm feeling just fine...