Newsflash

Our next meeting will be Tuesday, February 13th at Camp Ticonderoga (upstairs) on Rochester Road in Troy. This is a joint meeting with the Clinton Valley and Vanguard TU chapters. The meeting starts at 7pm and the speaker is Kristin Thomas who will be speaking on the Phase 3 restoration of Paint Creek. She will also talk about the habitat improvements on the Manistee River.

Come join us for some great fishing information and good food and drink!

Conservation Projects

Before 2011, Davis Rest, an access site on the Au Sable below Mio and Cummins Flats, was an erosion site with a pit toilet -- a well-built pit toilet. The Challenge Chapter submitted proposals to the U. S. Forest Service for steps, and started work in 2012. There's a picture below of the site before the project, and there are 14 pictures of how it looked in August, 2013. The project required two summers of work because a bank upstream from the steps started to collapse the year fter the staris were built. We went back again with the Forest Service's help and added some coconut fiber "logs" and some trees to protect the bank from being undermined by high water.

 

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