Nesmith and especially the Old Young’s area is making a comeback! Stop by and walk around to witness the transformation and grab a glass of ice cold lemonade to carry with you!
This is a quick review of what will be coming in the near future with this watershed. Kary Burns-Bailey and Harley Baily had contacted River Guardians Ohio through Summit Soil and Water Conservation District about this watershed that runs through their community. Short version, I have met with them on site a couple times and…
Wednesday morning I went down to the lake to clean some trash only to find the Akron City Parks Department Crew hard at work clearing the shoreline. I made sure to give our thanks to these professionals and joined in the fun pulling out trash they were exposing. By Friday afternoon, we suspect that most…
Link to the cleanup this Saturday is here. I misspoke on the video, Tinker’s Creek Watershed Partners, not “conservancy”
Matt volunteered his time and equipment, without which we would not have even attempted this. Dan volunteered his skills with the chainsaw that again, without we would not have taken this on. Watching these two work together for the first time, you would have thought they had done this for years as a team. RGO’s…
Featured in the short video are two community watersheds that have been brought to RGO’s attention, Pigeon Creek and Springfield Lake Outlet. According to those that live along the banks, past cleanups have been done with some positive results. Yet these pictures tell a different story. Without eyes on the water, consistent smaller efforts and…
We have been working this area consistently since last spring and the fruits of our labor are showing more and more. Our manual removal of the phragmites, though very labor intensive, is allowing the native species to regain a foothold. We are stopping the trash from overwhelming the watershed with our booms and we are…
Thursday we spent time with an amazing group of middle schoolers participating in Camp Explore sponsored by TomTod Ideas at the United Methodist Church in Canton. We wandered over to the Canton Museum of Art for an exhibit of “The Art of Recology”. Theo was my guide here as he had visited this before and…
Took us a little while to pull the booms out of the debris from the storms a few weeks back. Turns out with a little fixin’, we were able to get them to a new location upstream and will put them back in the rotation. Part of the delay was because of the tree at…
I will catch them up starting with a most recent event this past Saturday on Summit Lake and working back into some of the more ambitious projects we are working.Summit Lake Float 2026 sponsored by Summit Metro Parks and Ohio & Erie Canalway Coalition was a pretty fun day.