On Saturday, August 18th, SoCalHunt was on hand with about 30 other volunteers ready to get-r-done at San Jacinto’s first volunteer blind brush-up / work day for the upcoming season.
The volunteers met at the check station parking lot bright and early at 0700 and Tom sent everyone out across the Wildlife Area to brush-up several of the hunting area’s blinds. In addition, some general clean up was done around and inside some of the blinds, some of which included trimming natural growth that was overgrown and cleaning out tumbleweeds and other plants that had taken over the inside of a few of the blinds.
Tom giving us our assignments
Heading out to the blinds with some palm fronds
Brushing a blind (before)
A brushed-up blind (after)
The SJ staff is starting to flood some of the ponds and there were a lot of ducks already utilizing the wildlife area. Things are looking good for the upcoming season.
Some of the Wildlife Area’s ducks
After working hard all morning the volunteer crew and SJ staff retired Marcello’s Pizza in Nuevo for a great lunch.
Some of the crew at lunch!
Once again, Tom and his team at San Jacinto would like to give a big thank you to everyone that came out and worked hard to get things in ship shape for the upcoming waterfowl season.
There will be at least one more blind brush-up / work day to finish getting things in ship shape for the quickly approaching 2018/19 waterfowl hunting season. This one is scheduled for Saturday, September 22nd and volunteers are to meet at the check station parking lot at 7:00 am. Mark it on your calendar! Hope to see at least as many volunteers for this next work day as we had on this one. It’ll make things go quick and easy as more volunteers means less work for each volunteer.
(Info on the next Blind Brush-up day here: https://socalhunt.wordpress.com/2018/06/21/volunteer-clean-up-brush-up-work-days-set-for-san-jacinto-wildlife-area-august-18th-and-september-22nd/ )
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