ollie Posted March 6, 2009 Posted March 6, 2009 Hello to all who are watching this thread and to those of you who have joined our team. Our first litter pick-up is now official. The date is set for APRIL 11th at noon. That is on a Saturday and hopefully mosty can make it on that day. If the weather is looking bad I more than likely will move back the date to the next weekend. Hopefully though the weather will cooperate. I have made several contacts and the ball is rolling pretty fast right now. It's more like a snowball effect than anything. I have been so overwhelmed by most everyone's generosity and willingness to help that I am beside myself. We have the flyfishing group M.A.K.O. behind our efforts with a donation and possibly some them to help out with the litter pick-up. The city of Neosho will provide the pavillion (thanks to Scott Swope) to us to use down by the ballfields and will make sure the bigger dumpsters throughout the park will be emptied before we start. I have contacted the local paper (Neosho Daily News) and they will run an article for us along with the public service annoucement. I also contacted the local radio station KBTN and they are going to get back with me next week on the PSA they will run for us. Dave at the Hatchery in Neosho is commited to helping our efforts as well. They are donating some hot dogs and their time to help also. Steve Werries from MAKO is also helping out by securing another donor for food and possibly they will be cooking it as well. I don't know that that one will be a for sure deal or not. I have to wait until Monday to find out that one. I still have many businesses to contact before it starts. It's just hard when you have a regular job and kids in school to get everything cooridinated. I would like to see that flyer again re-produced with a few modifications to it. I can't remember at this point who designed it, but none the less please let me know! We need to add some kudos to the MAKO group,the National Fish Hatchery and both news medias as well. Hopefully I will find out about the third possible donor by Monday. If you haven't recieved your packet through the stream team by Monday please let me know so I can call them up and make sure I got your name on the list correctly. It's all starting to fall in place! Almost forgot the start time. It will kick off at noon in the park at the pavillion. Food will be served afterwards. ollie "you can always beat the keeper, but you can never beat the post" There are only three things in life that are certain : death, taxes, and the wind blowing at Capps Creek!
Members MarkinKC Posted March 6, 2009 Members Posted March 6, 2009 Great news Ollie. You are a one-man dynamo. The posts were quiet for awhile, but clearly you've been a busy guy. I just returned from business travel last night to find my MDC stream team packet waiting for me. It contained some good reading, a membership card, etc. For those of you who have not signed on yet, be sure and let Ollie know of your interest. You too can become a "card-carrying" member! As far as the initial flyer, Travis and I worked on it. I woud be happy to incorporate a sponsorship section. Just let me know which additional businesses or individuals should be listed. For organizations, maybe I can cut/paste their logos to give them a bit of advertising, and encourage their continued cooperation. Since I'm far from the stream, I will watch for long distance opportunities to contribute. Looking forward to the first clean-up on Saturday April 11th. MarkinKC
Members MarkinKC Posted March 7, 2009 Members Posted March 7, 2009 Ollie - Notice that the City of Neosho website has a "Calendar of Events". Let me know if you want me to ensure the clean-up is listed. Mark
Members MarkinKC Posted March 7, 2009 Members Posted March 7, 2009 MarkinKC again. Looks like somebody we want to get acquainted with, and maybe invite to the first clean-up? Andrew Branson Stream Team Biologist Ozark and Southwest Regions Phone: (573) 522-4115, Ext. 3501 Fax: (573) 526-0990 Email: Andrew.Branson@mdc.mo.gov A native to southwest Missouri, Andrew began with the Stream Team Program in October of 2007, and is responsible for Stream Team coordination in southwest and south central Missouri. Graduating from Drury University with a degree in Biology, he has worked for the Missouri Dept. of Conservation since 2005 as the mobile aquarium operator. Prior to that Andrew was Curator of the Aquarium and Children’s Zoo at the Tulsa Zoo in Oklahoma. When not involved with Missouri Stream Teams, he spends his time with his wife and two sons on their small farm south of Jefferson City, being a Boy Scout leader, and fishing Missouri streams.
Buzz Posted March 7, 2009 Posted March 7, 2009 I'll second that Mark. Good idea. If fishing was easy it would be called catching.
ollie Posted March 7, 2009 Author Posted March 7, 2009 Mark, go ahead and invite Anrew. It sounds like a good idea to me as well. It would also be great if you could list us on the city's website calender. I have been out today at the creek and I got a real schooling from the other stream team. They do mainly water quality monitoring. It is quit a process from what I could tell. It defenitly should take at least 2-3 people to do this chore. There were about nine students down there and two teachers and it still took them around 2 hours to completely do the task correctly. It was very educational to say the least. You will be interested to know that the insect or macro invertabre count was very positive. LOTS of scuds and sow bugs per each sampling. More of them than anything else it seemed. I don't think we will get much help from the High School team though. They do have their own agenda and they are pretty much sponsered through the science club. That means their interest are divided up among many other projects that they are doing. No worries though, they are doing other worthwhile things in the community for which they deseve kudos for. I still anounced our date and hopefully some of them can make it out for our clean-up. I also talked with the owner of a property that needs a LOT of work done to it. He is giving us permission to do whatever we can to help him out. You will see what I am talking about in the next post. "you can always beat the keeper, but you can never beat the post" There are only three things in life that are certain : death, taxes, and the wind blowing at Capps Creek!
ollie Posted March 7, 2009 Author Posted March 7, 2009 Here are some pics of the problemed areas that I have identified and would like to see cleaned up. I will just post them and let everyone see them, then I will comment on the where,what and why of them later. "you can always beat the keeper, but you can never beat the post" There are only three things in life that are certain : death, taxes, and the wind blowing at Capps Creek!
Members tgard27 Posted March 7, 2009 Members Posted March 7, 2009 Good grief Ollie. My question now is where are we going to put all of this debris and how are we going to get this stuff out of the stream? I'm sorry for not posting in a while, sometimes life gets a little too busy. I'm going to try to get the 11th off. Is there a landfill in the Neosho area? And if there is, do you think that they would allow us to put this stuff in their fill? Again, I'm not a Neosho nor Southwest MO resident so I'm not too familiar with the area. But this amount of garbage looks to be a challenge. Travis
ollie Posted March 8, 2009 Author Posted March 8, 2009 Ok, I knew someone would comment on that mess! Pictures 2 & 3 as your looking at them left to right are the biggest problem that's for sure. After I took these pictures I got back to the computer and read that the city will be contracting out work to take care of this log jam. The last two pictures are of the same two things. A big sink in the stream. The first picture is doable and on the homeowners land where we can go with his blessings. Picture 4 is of the other spring branch that flows out of the hatchery. The other was of the Big Spring branch. I am pretty sure we will be able to bring chain saws and possibly a small backoe or tractor to help out. However I cannot commit to those two ideas as of yet, although I know they were used before after the ice storm. "you can always beat the keeper, but you can never beat the post" There are only three things in life that are certain : death, taxes, and the wind blowing at Capps Creek!
ollie Posted March 8, 2009 Author Posted March 8, 2009 Mark or Travis, could you post a new link to the revised flyer if it is ready? I cannot find the old link anywhere in my emails. Thanks "you can always beat the keeper, but you can never beat the post" There are only three things in life that are certain : death, taxes, and the wind blowing at Capps Creek!
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