Glenmont OCVN opportunity August 2010

Hello all,

This is information Chris sent me on the Glenmont Baddow Pass volunteer information.
I'll try and get it in again closer to the event. For now, it's something you can mark on your calendars. It actually sounds like fun to me!

Pat


"Hi Pat,
I was finally able to get the additional information about the Baddow
Pass. As I noted in the meeting a portion of spur of the
Rail-to-Trails corridor south of Glenmont is identified as passing
through Baddow Pass. This spur is in primative condition. The rails
have been removed from the railroad bed through the pass, but there
is no pavement. This spur intersects the paved trail very close to
CR 75 and extends northward toward Glenmont for about 2.5 miles.

On or about the 2nd Saturday in August 2010, Glenmont will celebrate
their Glenmont Homecoming (an anniversary, I believe). We would like
to post some of our Vol. naturalists along the 2.5 mile spur to do some
nature interpretation on that date. The Baddow Pass is located at
the southend of the spur - at a higher elevation than the northern
portion of the spur as you approach the Glenmont area. Trains had to
work a little bit to climb to the "mountain pass."

Hope this helps.

Chris"

Volunteer Hours

Don't forget to send your volunteer hours via e-mail to Chris Sieverdes!

I have a small calendar that I write mine down as soon as I get home and then every couple months **try** to remember to send them to him!

Here's his work e-mail account for this:

csieverdes@ag.osu.edu

Pat Tirabasso

Vernal Pool Dig Day

At the November 12th meeting, Carrie mentioned the Vernal Pool dig. That's a Thursday morning from 10:00 am to 12:00 p.m. She mentioned TWC will provide lunch.

Past November 12 and coming December 10th meeting

Our second meeting of the OCVN Holmes County chapter met November 12th. Excellent turnout. Seventeen in attendance. Leslie Harrold gave us a great primer on toxic plants!
We enjoyed having two OCVNers from Ashland Co. join us, as well! We hope they'll continue to attend our meetings and be part of the group! Lot's of volunteer opportunities were shot around the room, and educational opportunities were shouted out as well. So many I wasn't able to write everything down quickly enough. I hope we'll be able to get some of these listed on the web page.

Next month (December 10th at 7:00 p.m.) we'll be having Gary Popotnik from The Wilderness Center speak on Invasives. We'll start the meeting with Gary's talk and then have the business part of the meeting, afterward.

Brief Bio on Gary from TWC's web site.

"Gary is a conservation biologist and is The Wilderness Center’s Director of Conservation and Land Stewardship. At TWC Gary’s primary duties include conservation planning for all properties and conservation easements (mapping, invasive plant management, Rx fire), working with other conservation organizations and agencies on a regional basis and grant writing. He is a native of Willowick, Ohio and graduated from Eastlake North High School in 1973. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in wildlife biology and a Master of Science degree in biology from California University of Pennsylvania. Before coming to TWC in the fall of 2008, Gary worked for the Ohio chapter of The Nature Conservancy. Gary also worked as a biologist for the US Fish and Wildlife Service’s Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge and Ecological Services office located in Vero Beach, Florida."



Refreshments will be provided for the December 10th meeting. Thanks!!!

Hope you all can attend this meeting. I look forward to seeing you all there!

Photo gallery

Please take photos of some of your volunteer activities so we can add them to the OCVN web site!
Contact Carrie or Pat and we'd like to add them to the new blog.