Carl Guffey
Well-known member
<font face="georgia,palatino" size="2">I started my first habitat project today on Ft. Loudoun. This event is being coordinated through the Girl Scouts so that Scout Laura Hulen may work her way toward a Gold Award. She started working post holidays at one of the Home Depots collecting Christmas trees for us to recycle in this project. Today she was on site dragging trees, tying ropes and working hard to make this habitat effort a reality.</font></p>
<font face="Georgia" size="2">We were hoping to have a complete "standing tree" project but most of the area we are trying to enhance is silt. On the first day we moved the trees from dry ground out to the lake site and started putting them into five tree bundles. We have a total of 39 bundles most of which we are going to stake down with metal ground substrates and nylon rope .Tomorrow our plan is to try and drill holes along the creek bottom and stand a small portion of trees. We are going to just wait and see if the ground is solid enough to support our efforts.</font></p>
<font face="Georgia" size="2">There were a couple of crappie fishermen who stopped to help us today. Steven Siddons and Derrick Sise were a great help prepping the trees and moving them down to the shoreline. The first photo is a group shot of those involved today. Special thanks go out to Steve Henegar, Darrell Hill, Russell Young, Steven Siddons, Derrick Sise, Laura Hulen, and Kathy Smith.</font></p>
<font face="Georgia" size="2">We were hoping to have a complete "standing tree" project but most of the area we are trying to enhance is silt. On the first day we moved the trees from dry ground out to the lake site and started putting them into five tree bundles. We have a total of 39 bundles most of which we are going to stake down with metal ground substrates and nylon rope .Tomorrow our plan is to try and drill holes along the creek bottom and stand a small portion of trees. We are going to just wait and see if the ground is solid enough to support our efforts.</font></p>
<font face="Georgia" size="2">There were a couple of crappie fishermen who stopped to help us today. Steven Siddons and Derrick Sise were a great help prepping the trees and moving them down to the shoreline. The first photo is a group shot of those involved today. Special thanks go out to Steve Henegar, Darrell Hill, Russell Young, Steven Siddons, Derrick Sise, Laura Hulen, and Kathy Smith.</font></p>
