What are we up to?
GEOCACHING WINNER!!!
So no one claimed the Geocaching prize this past week so next month we'll draw a new winner. Remember if you visit our geocaches and collect one of our 2011 geocoins, your number goes in the draw. So check back here often.
Where do I get these Geocoins you ask? Go to geocaching.com, create an account, search for the geocaches placed by “RiparianRover” (that’s us), and go grab a geocoin. We have five caches, one for each sub-watershed, placed throughout the Kennebecasis watershed. Collect a coin and watch for your number to be drawn. The next winner will be drawn in early May.
VOLUNTEER ACTIVITIES
The KWRC recently hosted a class of grade 8 students from Sussex Middle School as they volunteered to harvest some willow switches for our upcoming restoration activities. The students enjoyed a clear but cold morning outing along Trout Creek near Burton Park. They harvested off willow stock that will, grow new seedlings, be used as live stakes, be wrapped into fascine bundles, or be used as fence stakes. The effort of the students is greatly appreciated.
Following that event, Sarah Dawn Glinz volunteered to 
help our staff strike some willows into jiffy pots at a nearby nursery. These willows, in two months time, will be seedlings that will be planted along eroding stream banks in the watershed. In all we will grow 5000 strikes to become seedlings and may need help early in June planting them. If you wish to help give us a call.
FIELD ACTIVITIES
With some funding already announced, staff is preparing equipment, gathering baseline data, preparing permits, and talking to landowners. The New Brunswick Wildlife Trust Fund and the Atlantic Salmon Conservation Foundation have already provided us with a commitment to partner on three different projects and their support is greatly appreciated. We hope to hear from additional funding partners in the near future.
