Our next workday will be Saturday, May 12 at Fryes Feeder in Donald Park, north of Mt Vernon on Hwy 92. Here is a map to this location. We will begin at 9 and be removing willows. The usual gear … gloves, good boots, etc. are needed. Please join us!!

It’s been a busy month of making a difference for our streams! Below are photos and reports of plantings, brushings, burnings and more. See some great photos. 

Tree planting at Neperud
Thanks to Dan Oele, our fish biologist, a great DNR crew, and some weather-defying TU volunteers, we had another great day on the Sugar River at Neperud. We now have 55 oaks trees properly planted and watered in. Some will shade the creek and all will contribute some woody debris to the stream over time. And it’s a great step to having the stream run through a savanna. With some other TU volunteers, we then sowed some more native wild flower seed on what will one day be prairie/savanna. (See more photos courtesy Jim Beecher.)

Sugar River at Paoli
A fun and friendly workday with no snow underfoot! (See the full photo album courtesy Jim Beecher.)

Smith-Conley Creek – Phillips Easement
About two dozen volunteers worked three hours and cleared many large and medium box elders from the bank of the public easement. There’s a lot more left to do but we made a good start on a very fine stretch of water. From this day, we have some cool drone footage to share!