Hwy 24 Tree Planting Events
Volunteer opportunities are done for 2025. Stay tuned for 2026 opportunities in the New Year.
2025
April: Tree planting: 21 volunteers planted 150 native trees
May: Tree planting: 23 volunteers planting 150 native trees
2024
April: Tree planting, 26 volunteers planted 350 native trees.
September: Habitat structure installation, 13 volunteers from Greck and Associates Limited installed a new habitat structure in the bend pool.
October: Trail maintenance on the new pathway continued throughout the year. Chapter board members planted 25 cedar trees to help reroute another section of the trail away from the river's edge.
2023
April: Tree planting, 10 volunteers planted 115 native trees and 35 shrubs.
June: Electrofishing with CVC, Several chapter members assisted CVC staff in doing non-lethal sampling of the fish community to assess current health at the Hwy. 24 project site.
July and September: Habitat Structure installation, 8 volunteers installed cedar log habitat structures on existing older historic structures at two different locations.
2022
May: Tree planting, 11 volunteers planted 125 native trees along the North West side of the river.
June: Electrofishing with CVC, Several chapter members assisted CVC staff in doing non-lethal sampling of the fish community to assess current health at the Hwy. 24 project site.
July and September: Habitat Structure Installation, 11 volunteers installed cedar log habitat structures on the existing older historical structure.
October: Tree planting, 12 volunteers planted 25 mature white cedars along the existing footpath that was too close to the riverbank. The planted trees will stabilize the bank and increase shading of the river.
2021
August: Habitat Structure Installation
2023
May: Tree Planting, 9 volunteers planted 150 trees and shrubs
2022
May: Tree Planting, 10 volunteers planted 150 trees and shrubs and 50 live stakes
2019
November: Redd monitoring
August: Habitat Structure Installation
July: Habitat Structure Installation
2018
November: Live staking
September: Tree and shrub planting
August: Sediment trap installation
July: Sediment trap installation and augmentation
May: Vegetation monitoring, Tree and shrub planting
2017
October: Tree and shrub planting
September: Tree and shrub planting
August: Cross channel log installation
July: Gravel bed installation; electrofishing monitoring
May: Benthic monitoring
April: Tree and shrub planting
2016
November: Live stake installation
October: Tree planting
August: Habitat structure installation
July: Habitat structure installation
June: vegetation monitoring
May: Tree planting
April: Live stake installation
2015
October: Tree planting
August: Stream restoration
July: Stream restoration
June: Benthic sampling
February: Thermal data collection
2023
April: Sligo Bridge to McLaughlin Road and around Forks of the Credit clean up
2019
October: Forks of the Credit clean up
August: Hillsburgh stream clean up
April: Sligo Bridge clean up