On Saturday, March 27th, about 15 volunteers were in attendance at the San Jacinto Wildlife Area check station parking lot bright and early at 0600. Tom sent the volunteers out across the Wildlife Area with the mission to clean-up the hunting area’s blinds. Much was accomplished and all the area’s blinds received a good cleaning. Many spent shotgun shells were picked up, (the most common kind of trash in and around the blinds), along with other various trash. Tom Trakes of San Jacinto Wildlife Area estimated they filled a dumpster about ¼ full of empty shells.
After working hard all morning the volunteer crew and the SJ staff retired to the El Comal Restaurant in Nuevo for a well-deserved lunch, (each person responsible for their own bill).
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 season.
There will probably 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 will likely be scheduled around mid-July and the one after that in late August or early September (dates to be announced). Watch SoCalHunt for info on these upcoming work days when the dates are announced.
In preparation for these upcoming work days palm fronds are needed. If you can get a hold of any palm fronds any time before the work days you can drop them off at San Jacinto. Just call Tom at 951-236-3040 and he’ll make arrangements for you to 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. Also, hopefully, SJWA will have a Hunter’s Education Class scheduled soon. Of course, this is pending state approval due to COVID restrictions but hopefully we’ll know soon. Watch SoCalHunt for the announcement of the Hunter’s Ed Class (hopefully) soon.
Ok, now I’m going to climb onto my soapbox (and this is me personally talking, not SJWA or anybody affiliated with them). Please…please try to pick up your empty shells, and any others’ shells you might find in and around your blind when you go hunting, along with any other miscellaneous trash. The best way to keep our hunting privileges at SJWA, or any other place for that matter, is to keep the area as clean as possible. I would hate to see any restrictions to our hunting privileges come about because some anti-hunting big wig from Sacramento sees a bunch of shells strewn about our hunting areas. It would be kind of hard to deny that hunters left all that litter behind when most of it is shotgun shells. A ¼ dumpster full of empty shells is quite a lot. Ah, yeah, ‘nuff said about that.
Looking forward to seeing everybody that can make it to the next work day. Watch SoCalHunt for the announcement when the date is set.
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