Project Watershed Workshops, Ppt
Beartrap-Ley Creek GLRI Project, Ppt
Thursday, November 23, 2017
Friday, November 10, 2017
Beartrap Creek
Izaak
Walton CNY Chapter Releases Final Report
on
G.L.R.I. Habitat Restoration Projects
(January,
2017)
In 2010, the Central New York Chapter of the Izaak Walton
League of America partnered with the national IWLA to receive an $118,000 grant
from the USEPA under the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative (G.L.R.I.) grant program. Titled “Restoring Degraded Tributaries of
Onondaga Lake”, the project was aimed at undertaking restoration measures in
several habitat degraded tributaries of Onondaga Lake – namely Beartrap Creek
in the Town of Salina, Baltimore Brook in Marcellus, and Ley Creek in the Town
of DeWitt.
Habitat restoration work in Beartrap Creek and Baltimore
Brook was undertaken in the years 2011 to 2014, while the most recent project
on the South Branch of Ley Creek was completed this past October. Our principal partners in the overall
G.L.R.I. grant elements were the Izaak Walton League’s national office in
Gaithersburg, MD, and in Central New York, the CNY Chapter’s Project Watershed
Program, the Onondaga Environmental Institute, the Onondaga County Soil and
Water Conservation District, the Nine Mile Creek Conservation Council, and our
consulting engineer firm of Natural Systems Engineering.
The Central New York Chapter received substantial
volunteer help with stream water quality data collection, with placement of
stone cobbles in several locations along Beartrap Creek, the stocking of brown trout,
and with staff and volunteer help from the Baltimore Woods Nature Center. A final report on the G.L.R.I. project,
covering the habitat restoration initiatives completed between 2010 to 2016,
was sent to the Izaak Walton League and the U.S. Environmental Protection
Agency in late December.
To Review a Powerpoint of the Project click here Beartrap powerpoint
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