On Saturday, July 13th, about 25 volunteers showed up at the San Jacinto Wildlife Area check station parking lot bright and early at 0700. In addition to the volunteers some of the Boy Scouts from Troop 337 were in attendance to work on Riley Garrett’s Eagle Scout Project, which was to repair and upgrade the kiosks next to the check station parking lot. Tom sent the volunteers out across the Wildlife Area to clean-up several of the hunting area’s blinds. In addition to the general clean-up and trash and shell pick up some of blinds required trimming of natural growth that was overgrown and cleaning out tumble weeds and other plants that had taken over the inside of a few of the blinds. Due to this past winter’s heavy rains there was an unusual amount of vegetation this year.
Heading out to the blinds
Getting ready to work on Marsh A
Mystic Lake lookin’ good!
Working on the kiosks.
After working hard all morning the volunteer crew, Scouts and the SJ staff retired to the awning at the check station parking lot for a great lunch of Carne Asada, rice and beans along with soft drinks provided by the Boy Scouts.
A well-deserved lunch…yum!
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 start the process of getting things ready for the upcoming waterfowl. Also, a big thanks to Riley Garrett and the other Scouts for their hard work upgrading the kiosks along with a big thanks to Shane Tucker and Carlos Gutierrez for lending their expertise and assistance on the hot roofs of the kiosks. And finally, a big thanks to the Scouts again, from everybody, for providing a great lunch.
There will be at least two more blind brush-up/work days to finish getting things in ship shape for the coming waterfowl hunting season. The next one is scheduled for Saturday, August 24th and the one after that in late September (date to be announced). I’ll make a separate post with all the details for the August 24th workday when I get all the info and the flyer from the SJ Staff, but for now, go ahead and mark it on your calendar. The August 24th workday will concentrate on working on and brushing up the blinds, so palm fronds are needed. If you can get a hold of any palm fronds any time before the work day you can drop them off at San Jacinto. Just call Tom at 951-236-3040 and he’ll make arrangements for someone to be there so you can drop them off. Please make sure you don’t bring in the type of palm fronds with the thorns on their stalks, unless you’re willing to strip off the thorns first. Those things wreak havoc with waders if the thorns aren’t removed. Watch SoCalHunt for the “official” announcement and details of the next blind brush-up/workday.
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