In 2024, The CLEAN Team has been visiting all six current native planting sites and maintainng the plantings. Weeding, re-staking and maintaining the protective cages has been the focus to ensure these plants continue to thrive.
The Wyoming County Soil and Water Conservation District (WCSWCD) staff are working with landowner(s) to secure appropriate permissions for potential planting sites for 2025.
BIOREACTOR PROJECT
WCSWCD has delayed this project for the fall and is targeting a 2025 bioreactor project date at either the Fairview location or another site in the watershed. CLEAN will be supporting the Bioreactor Project with a $7,500 donation and a matching $7,500 donation from SLA. Click the picture on Frank's picture for more information.
500 native plants were distributed to SLA members for planting in lake homeowners' personal properties. Each Tract Director was given a number of plants to share with their tracts.
CLEAN'S goal is to educate our members about the benefits of using native plants and encourage our members to incorporate more of these native plants into their landscape designs.
LIST OF NATIVES PROVIDED:
Milkweed
Blue Flag Iris
Asters
Location: Silver Lake State Park (aka Silver Lake Boat Launch)
Date: Friday, October 14, 2022
Start Time: 9:00 AM
Volunteer removed existing tree tubes from the 2019 and 2020, cleared out the tributary, removing downed limbs and trees to an on-site disposal area. Then they installed new trees and shrubs along with weed barriers and mulch plus new weld-wire cages.
List of native plants used:
Tress: Sycamore, Swamp white oak, red oak, bald cypress, sugar maple
Shrubs: Silk dogwood, button bush, Nannyberry, Am hazelnut
Perennials: Wild ageratum, cutleaf coneflower, Joepye weed, hoary skullcap, NY ironweed, wild bergamot, clustered mountain mint
Thank you to everyone for volunteering.
Delighted to have a dedicated group of volunteers help with the removal of non-native plants from the 2021 planting site at Silver Lake. The attached photos (courtesy of Lee Loomis) show the team member’s in action. The following individuals provided tools, trailers, a site of debris disposal, and/or physical labor during today’s efforts:
Joe Caputo
Lee Loomis
Barb Petrie (and her twin 10 year old grandchildren Adele & Noah)
Peggy Philips
Bruce Penman
Frank Bright
Robert Ritz
Ron Norton
Bob Martin
Tom Szczesny
Cathy Volk
Rebecca Mann (Wyoming County Soil and Water Conservation District)
Emely Bell (Wyoming County Soil and Water Conservation District)
Special thanks to the property owner, Diane Donohue
Again, thank you to everyone for your help!!!
Our dedicated and hard working group of volunteers successfully completed the 2021 Silver Lake Watershed planting project on October 15, 2021. This year’s site was along an active tributary leading into Silver Lake located at the corner of East Lake and East Spring Brook Rds. The native flowers, shrubs, and trees that our team installed included the following:
NY Ironweed
Wild bergamot
Clustered mountain mint
Silky dogwood
Spice bush
Nannyberry
Eastern bluestar
Black elderberry
Wild ageratum
Culvers root
Joe-pye weed
Cutleaf coneflower
Blue flag Iris
Pink milkweed
White oak
Sugar maple
The 2021 planting team included these individuals:
Diane Donohue (property owner)
Larry Bauer
Gordy Solderholm
Kelly Paganelli
Don Starner
D.J. Starner
Frank Bright
Lee Loomis
Barb Petrie
Bruce Penman
Ron Norton
Tom Szczesny
Kevin Coburn (SLI President)
Bob Capurso (SLA President)
Mike Bellamy
Jim Engle (Nurser)
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