May 2025 Conservation Report

On May 3,2025 100 trees were planted on Trout Brook at Hillside Bridge Road on a cold rainy day. 15 volunteers braved the elements, and my thanks go out to all. We also removed treetubes on the North Branch of Wiscoy Creek.

On May 5th, Kyle Glenn from Northeast TU had an electroshocking demonstration on Wiscoy Creek with 13 students from the Genesee Valley BOCES along with their instructor Jerry Krajna. The students really enjoyed learning about fish electroshocking studies and helped capture and measure fish. They also placed conifer trees along the bank on Wiscoy Creek that will be used over the summer for another section of Conifer tree bank stabilization. These students are the future and WNYTU is proud to be partnering with Genesee Valley BOCES.

Local students from 16 Western NY schools will be releasing the trout that they raised during this past school year Trout in the Classroom programs in area waters. Chuck Godfrey, who heads up the program said it was another great year for the program.

Joe Morgan