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Next
BRWP Meeting
Date: Wednesday Feb. 24, 2010
Time: 7:00 PM
Place: Room 52
Owens
Community College
Bright
Rd., Findlay, OH
Recent
Wildlife News for the Lake Erie Basin
Satellite images clearly show that Lake Erie is in a
predicament that is translating into fewer fish.
"Environmental issues are more problematic for fish
and fishing than many people realize" says a Lake
Erie fisheries administrator.
Read more...
The North Central Ohio Wildlife Mgt. Conference
The 4th Annual North Central Ohio
Wildlife Management Conference will take place
on Saturday, January 30, 2010 at the Firelands
BGSU, Cedar Point Center. Hosted by the Erie
and Ottawa Soil and Water Conservation
District's and the OSU Extension, this
conference will feature some of the top
professionals in their fields. If you enjoy
nature and wildlife, you won't want to miss this
opportunity to see, hear, and learn about
wildlife management and conservation.
Read more...
Northwest Ohio Flood Mitigation Partnership is formed
The Northwest Ohio Flood
Mitigation Partnership, Inc. was established to
expedite the design and development of a long-range
flood mitigation plan to help alleviate flooding
throughout the Blanchard River Watershed.
The City of Findlay, Village of
Ottawa, and Hancock and Putnam Counties have signed
resolutions endorsing the Partnership. Hardin County
and the Village of Bluffton officials also are
expected to sign a similar resolution.
Additional assistance and
expertise will be provided by consultants, local
government, The Blanchard River Watershed
Partnership, the Ohio Department of Natural
Resources, the Natural Resource Conservation
Service, the U.S. Department of Agriculture, and
state and federal legislators.
Visit
http://floodpartnership.org/to
learn more.
Watershed
Volunteer Program
The watershed partners are forming a
group of volunteers to being a mapping and stream quality
assessment of the land drained by Lye Creek. The team will be
trained to observe and record the condition of the water flow,
the characteristics of the stream bed, the appearance and
conditions of the bank, the location of drainage pipes and tiles
emptying into the creek along with the location of log jams,
silt islands, debris piles and any other visual pollution.
The second phase of the project
is to identify locations along Lye Creek for a volunteer water
quality-monitoring project to establish a current water quality
conditions as a base line for Lye Creek and the Blanchard
River. This data will collection will be an ongoing project to
enable us to recognize changes in water quality over time and
access the effects of changes in land use activities.
Phase three of the teams objective
is to write a water quality action plan that will be used to
seek funding for projects to assist communities and landowners
to improve conditions along the waterways and improve the value
of the rivers and streams for all our citizens.
The first volunteer training
session was held in April and the mapping project started
in early May 2007. Everyone in the community is invited to be
trained, find out what we are planning to do and sign on for the
parts of the project they are willing to work on. This project
will take an estimated two years to complete the entire
watershed. For more information call stream flow committee
chairman, Phil Martin at 419-422-6487 or contact us using the
link on this site
chair@blanchardriver.com.
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