hammerhead
May 8th, 2009, 07:53 AM
Posting this from an email I received from Tom McCrumm
Where: Hawley (Dubuque) State Forest. We will meet at 9:30am at the Americorps HQ upper parking lot at Hallockville Pond on Rte 8A near the Plainfield/Hawley town line. (NOTE: This is not the firehouse parking lot in East Hawley where the kiln is.)
Directions:
From Rte 2 in Charlemont: Follow Rte 8A uphill quite a ways, eventually you'll see a sign on the right for Americorps HQ, you'll also see Hallockville Pond with a small dam. Drive in and keep going up to the upper parking lot.
From Rte 116 coming from the west: Pass the Savoy/Plainfield town line into Plainfield, after a few miles you'll see Plainfield Pond close on the left side of Rte 116. Go another mile or so, and turn left on Rte 8A. Go about one mile downhill to the Americorps HQ and Hallockville Pond on the left. Turn left and drive up to the upper parking lot.
From Rte 116 coming from the east: Go through the 4 corners at the top of the hill in Plainfield Center, down and up a long hill to Rte 8A on the right. Turn right and go about one mile downhill to the Americorps HQ and Hallockville Pond on the left. Turn left and drive up to the upper parking lot.
When: Saturday May 9th, 9:30am meeting time, we'll plan to leave the parking by 9:45am.
What: We will drive into the forest in whatever 4WD and high clearance vehicles we have. The road is washed out and badly rutted, so 4WD is needed. We'll park at the wood shelter at Gould Meadow and work on some of the four trails that disperse from there.
Bring: Small chain saws (98% of the stuff down is under 4"), safety equipment (helmet and chaps), rakes or pitch forks, loppers, work gloves, maybe a folding saw. Also bring some water and maybe lunch. Black flies are out - bring bug dope!
Update: A bit over 25% of the trails have been cleared so far, taking close to 100 man-hours to date. Every trail is a mess and will need to be hand cleared, even some sections of forest roads are not passable.
What is needed: Mostly we need bodies to pull, haul, rake, pick up and move all the sticks and limbs covering the trails. Three-person or four-person crews of one chain saw person and two/three rakers/haulers/pickers seems to work the fastest.What we need most is BODIES - to pick up, haul and drag the thousands of limbs off the trails, and to rake off the smaller stuff. Please help. If you ride, ski or hike on the trails in Hawley, please volunteer some time to "pay back" to the land.
Weather: Heavy rain cancels, a drizzle does not cancel.
Questions: Get back to me.
Other Work Days: Other dates will be scheduled soon, including our regular Thursday evening work sessions. The next weekend work day will be over Memorial Day weekend.
Please RSVP if possible.
tom at southfacefarm dot com
Where: Hawley (Dubuque) State Forest. We will meet at 9:30am at the Americorps HQ upper parking lot at Hallockville Pond on Rte 8A near the Plainfield/Hawley town line. (NOTE: This is not the firehouse parking lot in East Hawley where the kiln is.)
Directions:
From Rte 2 in Charlemont: Follow Rte 8A uphill quite a ways, eventually you'll see a sign on the right for Americorps HQ, you'll also see Hallockville Pond with a small dam. Drive in and keep going up to the upper parking lot.
From Rte 116 coming from the west: Pass the Savoy/Plainfield town line into Plainfield, after a few miles you'll see Plainfield Pond close on the left side of Rte 116. Go another mile or so, and turn left on Rte 8A. Go about one mile downhill to the Americorps HQ and Hallockville Pond on the left. Turn left and drive up to the upper parking lot.
From Rte 116 coming from the east: Go through the 4 corners at the top of the hill in Plainfield Center, down and up a long hill to Rte 8A on the right. Turn right and go about one mile downhill to the Americorps HQ and Hallockville Pond on the left. Turn left and drive up to the upper parking lot.
When: Saturday May 9th, 9:30am meeting time, we'll plan to leave the parking by 9:45am.
What: We will drive into the forest in whatever 4WD and high clearance vehicles we have. The road is washed out and badly rutted, so 4WD is needed. We'll park at the wood shelter at Gould Meadow and work on some of the four trails that disperse from there.
Bring: Small chain saws (98% of the stuff down is under 4"), safety equipment (helmet and chaps), rakes or pitch forks, loppers, work gloves, maybe a folding saw. Also bring some water and maybe lunch. Black flies are out - bring bug dope!
Update: A bit over 25% of the trails have been cleared so far, taking close to 100 man-hours to date. Every trail is a mess and will need to be hand cleared, even some sections of forest roads are not passable.
What is needed: Mostly we need bodies to pull, haul, rake, pick up and move all the sticks and limbs covering the trails. Three-person or four-person crews of one chain saw person and two/three rakers/haulers/pickers seems to work the fastest.What we need most is BODIES - to pick up, haul and drag the thousands of limbs off the trails, and to rake off the smaller stuff. Please help. If you ride, ski or hike on the trails in Hawley, please volunteer some time to "pay back" to the land.
Weather: Heavy rain cancels, a drizzle does not cancel.
Questions: Get back to me.
Other Work Days: Other dates will be scheduled soon, including our regular Thursday evening work sessions. The next weekend work day will be over Memorial Day weekend.
Please RSVP if possible.
tom at southfacefarm dot com