Warm Springs Watershed Association

Our Watershed Association, the Sleepy Creek Watershed Association and the Friends of the Cacapon River are hosting a year-end gathering at Angus and Ale beginning at 6pm with buffet dinner served at 6:30. There will be door prizes.

 

Come on down, meet old friends and make some new ones while we talk about accomplishments and plans. The cost is $20 per person.

 

You can register and pay on the Sleepy Creek website ( https://sleepycreekwatershed.org/3watershedceleration/) or you may call Susan Jones to RSVP. She can be reached at [email protected] and at 304-258-6122. Mail payments to to SCWA, PO Box 991, Berkeley Springs, WV 25411.

Angus and Ale is located at 146 Southridge Dr, Berkeley Springs.

 

Hope to see you there.

Elizabeth Byers of the WV Dept of Environmental Protection will lead a field trip to the Widmeyer Wetlands following a presentation about wetlands, use, protection, legal status and beauty.  This is co-sponsored by Sleepy Creek WA and the Potomac Valley Audubon Society.

 

Cacapon Institute is sponsoring a Summer Camp for children (6th to 8th grade) interested in learning about stream and watershed activities.

The Summer Camp takes place Jul 15 - 19. There are 3 days and 2 nights camping at Westmoreland State Park, VA and a visit to Washington DC. Scholarships are available. Call 304-258-8013 for information. You can register on line at www.cacaponinstitute.com using the Stream Scholars tab.

 

 

 

The WV Make-it-Shine event was enthusiastically promoted and carried out by more than 16 friends the morning of Apeil 9. 31 bags of trash, 5 tires, one TV, plywood and gutters (86’ were retrieved from the proposed Rail Trail and from along the run crossing Jimstown Rd, just north of Berkeley Springs. Thank you all!

The 45 trees ordered by 12 residential property owners in Morgan County and the Sheetz Corp.  were distributed yesterday, April 6, after a demonstration planting led by Zach Norris of the Cacapon Institute who organized this overall BMP project for the Eastern Panhandle.  Participants then helped plant the 11 remaining trees on the Sheetz hillside site. 

Thank you all for helping us "keep green". We gratefully appreciate the guidance and active support of the Cacapon Institute, one of six national winners of the Arbor Day Award in 2018, for its help in this work regarding tree planting, conservation and stewardship. Also of note, the Town of Bath has been a Tree City USA Community award winner for the last 11 years.