Volunteers
Adopt a pond! Do you have a group of people or a few friends that like to regularly visit the ponds and want to make a difference? Consider adopting a pond! What would you do? Pick up trash in and around your pond on a semi-regular basis (scheduling up to you). Take notes on anything out of the ordinary. Help keep certain unwanted vegetation in check. Monitor newly planted trees and/or other vegetation. So many opportunities!
Contact Misty Hailstone for more information: Misty.Hailstone.1@us.af.mil
The Friends of Piute Ponds is always looking for volunteers who are looking for a community of like minded people whether for birders, photographers, hunters or hikers.
Bring your ideas, tools, time, talent and enthusiasm as we continue to maintain and improve the ponds as a valued wetlands for the beautiful creatures we enjoy.
Email your ideas to volunteer@piuteponds.org
Current projects include:
Vegetation
Plant trees along flow paths such as those in Pintail Flats and along the Ave C channel
Pull young tamarisk
Rip Rap
Hand place rip rap (small broken concrete) alongside the weirs where the backhoe was unable to place them.
Install boards in all screw gates to protect against debris entering culvert – priority is Shuttle Pond
Surveys
Document potential tricolored blackbirds during nesting periods throughout ponds from the southern ponds to the lakebed
Find and document all black willows planted in 2012 to determine survival rate
Water gages
Hand install gages near the weirs to assist in water control
Weirs
Develop method for sealing lakebed weirs so they don’t leak when we don’t want them to allow water onto the lakebed
Roads
Fill in, stabilize areas in the roads that pool water developing muddy unpassable areas. Can we put in more soil, gravel, broken concrete, etc? Maybe broken concrete with boards over the pieces allowing cars to drive over the boards ???
Signs
Clean of wildlife signs, design new signs, install
Wildlife viewing blind
Develop possible locations, type, install, etc
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