Pumphouse Lake Clean-Up September 16, 2006:Be there!!!!

June 04, 2006 at 4:07 am

If you have been following this blog you will remember that I have been in contact with the great staff at the TD Canada Trust Great Canadian Shoreline Clean-up initiative (see Old Crow School and the Agonizing Tangle of a Marsh Hawk AND Great Canadian Clean Up Thanks Fish On Yukon).

Due in large part to discussions with Philip Merchant (Yukon Dept. of Environment) and the people at the TD Canada Trust Great Canadian Shoreline Clean-up I have decided to become the site coordinator for the Pumphouse Lake Shore-line Clean Up September 16th, 2006.

The Yukon’s lakes and rivers have given me incredible fishing opportunities and it is time to give back. I hope you will join me on this day to clean-up the lake. This will be a very child-safe initiative so bring your kids. I plan on bringing my two and four year old to teach them how take care of our environment and fisheries.

I have already spoken to a few corporate organizations and they are keen to help out. Let me know if you are interested or you can sign-on as a volunteer on-line at www.vanaqua.org/cleanup/. There are also a few other Yukon sites that you can clean-up.

I should also say that it has been a pleasure working with this national initiative, Philip Merchant and Yukon anglers. Philip made sure to mention that “the fellow that actually first saw the bird and brought it into me is Adam SKRUTKOWSKI . He really was the person in the field that recognized the problem, was interested enough to mention it to me, and then went back and recovered the dead bird”.

The TD Canada Trust Great Canadian Shore-Line Clean-Up also wanted to thank the Fish On Yukon blog for getting the message out through a story on their front page and a copy of Chuck Tobin’s Whitehorse Star story of the Marsh Hawk (see “Local Heroes” www.vanaqua.org/cleanup. I’ll keep you posted on this initiative.

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