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Four August Hosted Weekends – Come join us at camp!

Come visit Nawakwa for a weekend – we’d love to see you if it’s been a while, it’s your first time, or if you just need some more outdoorsy fun. Details on registering are in the links below.

Hosted Weekend: Lazy Days of Summer 8/7-8

Hosted Weekend: Pleasures of Summer produce with a Russian accent 8/14-15

Late Summer Work Weekend 8/21-22

UPDATE: Registration is full – Hosted Weekend: Lazy Late Summer Duck 8/28-29

Trip to Silver Mine Lake to Remove Invasive Water Chestnut – August 1st

From our neighbors at the ACA:

 

Explore a new lake and help keep it clean.  Please join us in helping the Lower Hudson Partnership for Regional Invasive Species Management (PRISM) to remove invasive water chestnut from Silver Mine Lake on Sunday, August 1st at 1 pm.  This is a great chance for us to give back to a group that has helped out so much on Lake Sebago!

 

We’ll need to cartop boats over to Silver Mine Lake to help.  Load your boat on your car and meet at 1 pm in the main parking lot at the ACA Camp on Lake Sebago to head over to Silver Mine Lake.  Lindsay Yoder, PRISM coordinator, and some volunteers will also be at the lake from about 12:30 – 4 pm if people want to bring their own boat and go on their own.

 

What you’ll need
– Your own boat to cartop to Silver Mine Lake.  We also may have a couple spots in canoes and there’s work that can be done on shore if someone wants to help but can’t bring a boat.  (Please note in your sign up if you have a boat to bring or need a spot in one.)
– Rubberized work gloves if you have them.  The barbs on seeds can be sharp!
– Wear shoes that can get wet and you might want long pants/sleeves in case of bug bites

Wondering what to expect at a water chestnut pull?  Watch this quick video to find out https://youtu.be/-5gHmvd4OGQ

 

Email me back to sign up and please let me know if you can bring your own boat, need space in one/want to help on land, or have any questions.

Thanks and hope to see you this weekend!

 

Best,

Erin

 

Erin Thelen

ACA Atlantic Division Board – Conservation and Public Policy

thelene@gmail.com

 

Nawakwa Contributes To The Fight Against Invasive Species In Harriman State Park

Camp Nawakwa is involved in two conservation projects involving invasive species.

Nawakwa is participating in the ongoing Invasive Species Task Force led by the New York/ New Jersey Trail Conference, against land based invasive species. As a continuation of the fall program, we contributed volunteers, as did the ACA camp on Sebago Lake, to the Task Force’s June 12 work day to uproot and kill invasive species around Sebago Lake and along the road to Nawakwa. We destroyed hundreds of plants, focusing mainly on burberry bushes.

We are also involved in the AIS (aquatic invasive species) program being conducted by Teatown under the auspices of the NYS Dept of Environmental Conservation. On July 11 we and ACA volunteers were treated to a one hour educational presentation on identifying and fighting aquatic invasive species. This was followed by 2 hours in canoes and kayaks surveying part of Lake Sebago to discover the extent of the invasion of non- native species ( which have ruined many lakes in the area). We searched for invasive animal life such as clams and snails as well as invasive plants.

Though invasive species are present, we discovered that, at this time, there is not a major problem in the lake. Harriman State Park employees are scheduled to do a full survey of the lake at the beginning of August. I have asked for the report from that work to be sent to the Nawakwa Board of Directors when it is completed.

Submitted by

Ira Stahl Conservation Committee Chairperson

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Founded in 1923, the Nawakwa Outdoor Association of New York, Inc. is a membership organization dedicated to the enjoyment of the outdoors through hiking, walking, camping, swimming, skiing, sailing, canoeing, and kayaking, and to the conservation and preservation of our wilderness, particularly the mountains, lakes, trails, and camping areas of the metropolitan New York region.