Salt Point Cleanup - Elbow Grease at its Best!

: By Katrina Binkewicz; Around Town; | Jul 3, 2015 |

Many volunteers descended on Salt Point to give it a spring face-lift. Cargill volunteers- John Alnutt, Darren Reeves, Rick Powers, John Galbraith, Steve Mosch, and Ron Butts- worked hard on Wednesday, June 17, finishing up the Knot Weed control project. They had a few hours to spare so they also weeded and mulched the trees in the picnic area and trimmed deer damaged branches from the cedars.

Knotweed patch by Osprey nest pole- before and after

Salt Point

Landscape fabric covering Knotweed along Salmon Creek

Salt Point

Paul Paradine and his NYSEG crew have constructed more primitive cedar pole benches in the picnic overlook area and for the North Beach. They generously dropped of 2 truckloads of mulch which is being used to cover fabric at the osprey pole, mulch plantings and benches.

The following Saturday (June 20), we accomplished even more with the help of 25 community volunteers. Friends and neighbors of Salt Point gathered at 9 am and worked for several hours on a myriad of clean-up tasks that included trash collection, invasive weed removal (mugwort, swallowwort, and angelica), selective trimming and ‘limbing up’ of trees on the picnic bluff edge to allow for better views and spreading of mulch on fabric and at the new bench sites.

There are 3 new Leopold benches installed on the perimeter loop drive. This is important because the full loop at Salt Point is now accessible to people that have mobility limitations and need a place to sit and rest periodically as they walk the trail.