May 28th, 2008
We are introducing our eNews Conservation Trivia this week. This week’s question is brought to us by Heather Rawlings, biologist with the US Fish & Wildlife Service. It’s a question pondered by many coldwater stream enthusiasts when looking at dams and road-stream crossings in our rivers.
Just how high can a brook trout (Salvelinus fontinalis) jump?
See the answer: http://www.huronpines.org/article/71
Below is the 5/28/08 biweekly update for Huron Pines.
Thank you!
Huron Pines
AMERICORPS PROGRAM FUNDING
We would like to thank the Higgins Lake Foundation for their donation of $5,000 to the Huron Pines AmeriCorps program. Their generous donation helps the AmeriCorps program to enable local groups and better protect and restore natural resources for all of Northeast Michigan.
Without this support, we couldn’t provide area conservation organizations with such critical help. Through the program, 10 members directly serve for a year with nonprofit conservation groups and conservation districts. Huron Pines AmeriCorps members provide assistance with organizational capacity building, volunteer coordination, on-the-ground restoration and habitat improvement projects, and public outreach and stewardship. AmeriCorps members’ service helps meet conservation goals that would otherwise go unaddressed.
Visit www.huronpinesamericorps.org to learn more about the program and see what members are doing.
GREENBELT WORKSHOP JUNE 14
Please join us for a greenbelt workshop on Otsego Lake. The day will include classroom instruction about greenbelts at Bagley Township Hall and in the afternoon, participants will help plant a demonstration greenbelt. The workshop is open to all who are interested in lake stewardship; other lake residents are encouraged to attend.
Everyone will receive a lakescaping manual as well as a watershed resource binder. Lunch is provided. The cost is $15 per person and can be paid the day of the workshop.
RSVP by June 6th to Casey Ressl at info@huronpines.org or (989) 344-0753 x14. For the full workshop announcement, visit http://www.huronpinesamericorps.org/Events.html.
CHALLENGE CHAPTER OF TU
On May 17th, the Challenge Chapter of Trout Unlimited volunteered to help restore the streambank at Claybanks on the Au Sable River. Human-caused erosion at this site is contributing over 250 tons of sediment to the river each year.
Work done by the Challenge Chapter of TU will help protect the site until further work later in the season. The Claybanks site has been an on-going project with Huron Pines, and we wouldn’t be able to get as much done without volunteers. We appreciate all the hard work!
For more information, visit http://www.huronpines.org/article/72.
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Pines is a nonprofit organization whose goal is to conserve the forests, lakes
and streams of Northeast Michigan.
Huron Pines
501 Norway Street
Grayling, MI 49738
Phone 989.344.0753
Fax 989.348.7945