NYCkayaker FREE Oct 14, Jamaica Bay: TREE PLANTING, PADDLING, STAR PARTY, POT LUCK BBQ!

[Erik Baard]

For coordinating the event, please feel free call my cell this weekend: 
917 569 9822

But please understand that this is a pre-paid cellphone and on week 
days before 9PM I am paying by the minute. Thanks!

On Oct 13, 2006, at 3:51 PM, Erik Baard wrote:

> Oct 14: Jamaica Bay Planting, Paddling, BBQ/Solar Oven Cookout, and 
> Star Party
>
> FREE FREE FREE FREE FREE FREE FREE FREE FREE FREE FREE FREE
>
> Organizers: LIC Community Boathouse, Friends of Gateway, Amateur 
> Astronomers Association of NY, NatureCalendar.com
>
> We are gathering 15-20 people for a wonderful day in Jamaica Bay, 
> perhaps New York City's most vibrant ecosystem. We still have spots 
> open!
>
> You can travel directly to Floyd Bennett Field or meet at the LIC 
> Community Boathouse at 10AM. See the directions page for the Anable 
> Basin boathouse at http://www.licboathouse.org
>
> DAY PLAN
>
> First we'll enjoy snacks and an orientation at 11:30 AM. Then at noon 
> we'll plant trees with Friends of Gateway (our largest local national 
> park -- http://treebranch.com ) for about 2.5 hours. A potluck BBQ and 
> an SOS Sport Solar Oven-cooked meal ( http://www.solarovens.org ) will 
> follow. Those who want to paddle can then hit the water for a couple 
> of hours (launching sometime between 4PM and 5PM, at a bit after high 
> water slack and heading into the bay -- ebb current will carry 
> paddlers back), while others might opt to hike and bird watch. We'll 
> all reconvene at 7PM for snacks (perhaps more BBQ) at sunset and a 
> star party, viewing the heavens through volunteers' telescopes and new 
> friends from the Amateur Astronomers Association of NY 
> (http://www.aaa.org)!
>
> PLEASE REMEMBER THAT THE TREE PLANTING IS THE MOST IMPORTANT, CENTRAL 
> MISSION OF PUBLIC SERVICE FOR THE DAY.
>
> Volunteers with cars and telescopes are urgently needed. Small BBQ 
> grills are welcome too. All others please bring something to BBQ or 
> cook in a solar oven, generously provided by the Solar Oven Society 
> through ECOFEST's ( http://www.ecofest.com ) Nancy Callahan and the 
> West Side Cultural Center. Potluck food for the BBQ is up to you! 
> Please also bring a dry change of clothing and the usual common sense 
> items -- hat, sunglasses,aspirin, etc.
>
> Email erik at licboathouse.org with your interest and resources.
>
> More about the core mission of the day provided by FoG's Dave Lutz, an 
> urban outdoors pioneer:
>
>
> Plant a Trail of Trees at Gateway National Recreation Area
>
> Get your hands dirty on the Second Saturday of each month at Floyd 
> Bennett
> Field in Brooklyn. Friends of Gateway (FoG) seeks a score of 
> volunteers to
> help plant over fifty trees in a single day on October 14th. "Floyd 
> Bennett
> Field is Brooklyn's National Park and the largest single park in 
> Brooklyn.
> Changing it from its former military and aviation uses and making it
> hospitable for park uses will require special attention to its need for
> shade, especially in an era of global warming" noted Dave Lutz, 
> executive
> director of Friends of Gateway. "The fall planting season is critical 
> to the
> success of FoG's effort to grow plants for the park. Meeting this 
> one-day
> goal will make a big difference in years to come."
>
> The event will take place on Saturday, October 14th and be part of 
> FoG's
> Second Saturday series of conservation efforts at the Gateway 
> Greenhouse.
> Participants will meet at the greenhouse at 11:30 for snacks. The event
> begins at 12 noon. Participants will plant a trail of trees from the
> greenhouse to the Park entrance.
>
> The day is designed to be family friendly. There will be enough to do 
> so
> that adults with or without children can contribute and have fun at 
> the same
> time. FoG also has a long list of projects that need to be done which
> require special skills, so people with horticultural background, art 
> skills,
> carpentry, plumbing, or electrical backgrounds are especially welcome 
> at the
> Gateway Greenhouse. People with special skills should call 
> 212-228-3126 so
> that arrangements can be made.
>
> Gateway National Recreation Area was created 30 years ago with the 
> transfer
> of mostly military infrastructure to the National Park Service. 
> Friends of
> Gateway is now encouraging New Yorkers to help improve their own park. 
> "We
> hope to develop a community of volunteer stewards to work with us to 
> make
> Gateway as much a stellar example of urban land restoration as 
> Yosemite and
> Yellowstone are of rural land preservation", said Dave Lutz.
>
>
>
>
> LIC Community Boathouse
> http://www.licboathouse.org
>
> Nature Calendar
> http://www.naturecalendar.com - coming soon!
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