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ANNUAL WILD GAME/HARVEST DINNER Saturday, October 8, 2011 @ 6:00 PM Gold Community Church Route 449 Genesee, PA 16923 Autumn 2011 The Susquehannock Trail Club’s ANNUAL WILD GAME/HARVEST DINNER Saturday, October 8, 2011 @ 6:00 PM Gold Community Church Route 449 Genesee, PA 16923 This covered dish dinner is always a great feast and one we look forward to each year. Fare consists of delicious recipes made from wild game and plants harvested from the great outdoors, as well as a few dishes made from prepackaged foods. There will be main dishes and desserts, wild and domestic meats, fish, vegetables, fruits, pie and cakes. There is always a great variety for all to enjoy. This year, club member Randy Cimeno will be sharing his trail stories from how he began hiking on a whim when invisted by a college buddy, to his adventures hiking the Applachian Trail, Pacific Crest Trail, as well as regional trails around the US and abroad. We hope to see you there! STC 2011 Camporee The Annual STC Camporee was held July 16 - 18, 2011 at Inside this Issue Sinnemahoning State Park. Nine members of the club participated. Joe and Barbara Allis joined Wanda Shirk and George Petrisek Friday STC 2011 Camporee .......................1 morning to do volunteer work in the park under the direction of park .Susquehannock State Forest District personnel, in return for free camping for the STC. Overhead limbs were Annual Public Tour .........................2 trimmed along park trails and educational signboards were given a Susquehannock State Forest District scrubbing. A Friday night campfire was highlighted with the tales of the Annual Public Tour .........................2 Alaska trip Joe and Barbara had just returned from three days previously. STS Circuit Hiker Award .............2 Saturday morning found the two camping couples joined by Curt & Memberhsip Renewal Time ............2 Penny Weinhold and John & Jerri Smeigh. Wanda, Joe and Barbara Map & Compasss Workshop ...........3 headed out for an 8 mile hike on the Quehanna Trail and the Trail Guide Tidbits ..........................3 Sinnemahoning Road Trail in Elk State Forest, starting on Wykoff Run. Curt, Penny and George explored various trails in Sinnemahoning State Big Tree Tour of Potter County.......4 Park and the Smeighs headed off for the Brooks Run Area of the Finding the Great Rhododendron ....5 Bucktail Trail. Long Hollow Trail Upgrade ............6 On Saturday evening, Wayne Baumann joined the group for a delicious Prince Edward Island ......................7 dinner and STC meeting, held in the park pavilion. A presentation on STC Government .............................8 migratory songbirds by the park naturalist in the amphitheater was Notes from the wild .........................8 followed by mountain pies made over the campfire by Joe Allis .Susquehannock State Forest District and mandates of the Bureau of Forestry’s timber management program, and pointed out specific Annual Public Tour examples of how the district is attempting to achieve By Tom Fitzgerald those objectives. The tour this year was held on May 1, 2011, and A field lunch of sandwiches and salads was provided focused on the Bark Shanty division of the by the forest district. Unfortunately, the cold rain Susquehannock State Forest. Several members of induced most of the group to eat lunch on the bus. the Susquehannock Trail Club attended plus a number of folks from the North Central Forest The final stop on the tour was a large wildlife Landowners Association and a few interested opening established by the Pennsylvania Game members of the public. About 23 persons in all Commission in the 1950’s. In the early 1970’s, the attended the tour. site was turned back to the forest district for management. The National Wild Turkey Federation The first stop was the private Tree Farm and provided grant money for improvements to the site Stewardship Forest of Allen McCullough in Odin which included herbaceous food crops and ever- Hollow. Service Forester Stan Hess introduced Mr. green shrubs for cover. STC member Paul Lilja, McCullough, now in his mid 80’s, who has owned who is a retired staff forester from the Susquehan- the property since about 1960. He practices nock District, had once been in charge of managing intensive silviculture with special emphasis on the the opening. Paul was present, and reviewed the management of black cherry. Deer browsing has history of the wildlife opening and described the been a continuing impediment to regenerating his various enhancements carried out over the last half forest, and he has had to fence in large areas to century to make the site attractive to wildlife. exclude deer until the new seedlings grow too tall for the deer to reach their tops. The effort has paid off, he said, for revenue from timber sales has exceeded the expenses incurred with no degradation of the STS Circuit Hiker Award forest. The condition of his forest is better than it Congratulations to the following for completing the was when he bought the property, or would have circuit, and in turn earning the Circuit Hiker Award! been today had nothing been done. 1016 Cathy Vonderhide Next, we stopped at a pipeline on Lookout Moun- Wellsville, NY tain where District Forester Christian Nicholas If you would like more information on the required discussed the challenges to the Bureau of Forestry qualifications for earning the Circuit Hiker Award, or resulting from gas well drilling. The state does not would like some “insider tips,” you may contact the club own the mineral rights on all state forest land. Gas at PO Box 643 Coudersport, PA 16915 or email to rights are owned by other parties on large areas. [email protected]. Nicholas displayed a map of the Susquehannock State Forest showing the extent of state ownership of the gas rights. DCNR Wildlife Ecologist Emily Memberhsip Renewal Time Just discussed the impact that gas well sites and To provide for a better management of the club’s pipelines have on the sylvan fauna. The chill wind, membership we have moved the membership drizzling rain, and muddy soil made it impractical to renewal to the October issue of the Susquehannock walk to a nearby gas well drilling site. Hiker. You will find enclosed a membership renewal After a brief pit stop at the Bark Shanty Forest form on page 9. Please fille this form out and return Maintenance Shop, the bus continued on to the it with your membership renewal. It is important Gaswell Road (named for a shallow well drilled that this form be returned, for it facilities us in decades earlier) where we walked down a skid road keeping up-to-date records on club member’s into an active state forest timber sale. Nicholas and interest as well as the member’s demographic Staff Forester Troy Stimaker discussed the objectives information (address, phone number, etc). 2 Map & Compasss Workshop have at least one magnetic north line drawn on the map to do this accurately. Pat explained how to use By Jasper Reamerstraff Pat Childs demonstrates the On Sunday afternoon, proper way to hold a compass. the compass to determine the bearing from one May 22, STC members point to another on the map. She also stressed the Pat Childs and Ralph importance of laying the map on a non-metallic Stockman hosted a surface when using a compass for this purpose. (If training session on how you have a circular protractor and a straight-edge, to read USGS you can determine a compass direction on the map topographic maps and use without the compass, but you must still have the a magnetic compass. The magnetic north lines drawn in. location was the Childs Our visit to the Childs’ camp lasted only three camp near Stannards, NY. hours—not enough time do steps six and seven of A few interested club the training. Step 6 involves longer compass shots members plus a Cub across a large nearby field, and Step 7 is a five-mile Scout and his mother from Photo by Jasper Reamerstraff compass hike. Bolivar, NY attended. Although the actual distance hiked was small, the mental challenge of the exercise made it a fun afternoon. Trail Guide Tidbits Pat Childs and her husband work extensively with ©By Chuck Dillon Boy Scouts in the Wellsville, NY area, and have an Mile 79.34 - The Eastern excellent permanent compass training course set up Continental Divide is less at their camp. After the boys receive instruction on than ¼ mile west of [the] how a compass works, they practice finding their Sunken Branch Road [and way with a compass by navigating through a series of STS] intersection. There the labeled concrete pads on the ground. Each headwaters of the Allegheny participant starts at one of the pads and follows a River run west, eventually specified series of bearings (azimuths) from one pad joining the Ohio and to the next. The second step of the training involves Mississippi Rivers, emptying standing at one of the pads, sighting through the into the Gulf of Mexico. At this same location, the compass at a specified bearing, and correctly headwaters of Pink Creek run east, eventually joining identifying the major object in the line of sight. The the Susquehanna River, and emptying into the third step consists of following a longer compass line Atlantic at Chesapeake Bay. About five miles north that has to be done in Pat instructs Cub Scout Seth of Denton Hill, near Gold, PA, the Divide also Brisky and his mother. stages while avoiding forms the headwaters of Triple Divide sign near STS obstacles. Fourth, the the Genesee River, which participants follow a flows to the North course through a series Atlantic via the St. marked trees in the Lawrence River. The nearby woods. ecological health of this The fifth step of the area is important to all of training is instruction in those watersheds, and the significance of problems here could have magnetic declination and widespread potential learning to orient a map consequences for many with the aid of the areas of the eastern North Sign Illustration by missfitzmedia compass.
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