Can you help at the Friends of Shimek Workday?
The next FOS Group Work Day will be held on Tuesday, May 16, 2023 and coordinated by FOS Board Member Sonny Gipe. Meet with Sonny and Forester John Byrd and Technician Patrick Thomas at 8:30 AM in the Lick Creek Lower Campground. Forester Byrd will give assignments for the day. Priorities will include clearing trails (ATV's and chain saws needed) and lots of campground work. Campground work needed includes cleanup camp sites and horse stalls prior to Memorial Day plus collect and sort recycle items.
A major project needed is to spread lime chips around hitching rails and in the horse stalls, provided the soil is dry enough. For this we need people who can rake lime chips. Please bring rakes, shovels and wheelbarrows to do this. These lime chips help greatly to keep campers and horses out of the mud and must be done every few years.
After a morning of work, all will return to the Lower Campground at noon to report back on progress, discuss upcoming activities, then rest a while with friends. Bring a sack lunch (if you like), water provided. Don't forget your blaze orange Friends of Shimek work vest if you have one. There will be some loaners available to identify all of us as volunteers. Remember—no previous volunteer experience necessary.
We will post on Facebook and the FOS blog if rained out. NOTE: If you let us know you are coming by an e-mail to FOShimek@gmail.com, we will call or e-mail you if we are rained out.
Kathy's Tid Bits:
The wood ticks are out very thick again this year. It would be advised to use some type of good tick repellant. Sunscreen would be advisable if you are working in the hot sun also.
A good pair of gloves would be beneficial also.
Hand pruners (if you are going out on the trails) would be helpful to trim back the pesky multiflora rose bushes that are hanging out in the trails.
Thank you to all that can make it out to assist on this workday.
Kathy
President/EditorFOShimek@gmail.com
A major project needed is to spread lime chips around hitching rails and in the horse stalls, provided the soil is dry enough. For this we need people who can rake lime chips. Please bring rakes, shovels and wheelbarrows to do this. These lime chips help greatly to keep campers and horses out of the mud and must be done every few years.
After a morning of work, all will return to the Lower Campground at noon to report back on progress, discuss upcoming activities, then rest a while with friends. Bring a sack lunch (if you like), water provided. Don't forget your blaze orange Friends of Shimek work vest if you have one. There will be some loaners available to identify all of us as volunteers. Remember—no previous volunteer experience necessary.
We will post on Facebook and the FOS blog if rained out. NOTE: If you let us know you are coming by an e-mail to FOShimek@gmail.com, we will call or e-mail you if we are rained out.
Kathy's Tid Bits:
The wood ticks are out very thick again this year. It would be advised to use some type of good tick repellant. Sunscreen would be advisable if you are working in the hot sun also.
A good pair of gloves would be beneficial also.
Hand pruners (if you are going out on the trails) would be helpful to trim back the pesky multiflora rose bushes that are hanging out in the trails.
Thank you to all that can make it out to assist on this workday.
Kathy
President/EditorFOShimek@gmail.com
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