The first BFS Volunteer workday for 2016-2017 academic year was held Saturday, September 17, when 14 volunteers, including Claremont Colleges faculty and students, Citrus College students, and community members, cleared cattails from the south shore of pHake Lake, where this heavily used lake access point had become almost unusable. Here are some photos of the volunteers hard at work:
Cutting the cattails. ©Nancy Hamlett
Piling cut cattails into a boat. ©Nancy Hamlett
Rowing the cut cattails across the lake. ©Nancy Hamlett
And here’s the result:
‘South Beach’ before cattail clearing. ©Nancy Hamlett
‘South Beach’ after cattail clearing. ©Nancy Hamlett
What a difference! Thank you, volunteers!
We plan to continue cattail removal for the next two workdays, so join us if you can!