Seneca Rocks Cleanup & Conservation Day

Please celebrate 2023 Earth Day by joining P. Pendleton Kennedy and Mountaineer Chapters of Trout Unlimited for a day of conservation, education, and fellowship at Seneca Rocks Visitor Center.

When: 9:30 to 4:00 on Saturday, April 22, 2023

Where: Seneca Rocks Visitor Center. We will meet at the pavilion in the lower parking area, near the historic Sites Farmhouse and the pedestrian bridge that crosses the North Fork. Note that the entrance to this lower parking area is off Rt 28/55, about 500 feet north of the Rt 28/55 bridge over Seneca Creek.
Schedule:
9:30 - 10:00 - Meet at the pavilion

10:00 - 12:30 - Conduct litter clean-up along parking areas, roads, trails, and river edge

12:30 – 1:30 - Lunch/Social (lunch provided) and discuss chapter and State TU activities. (PPKTU will conduct its raffle drawing and we plan to have a drawing for participation prizes!)

1:30 – 4:00 - We plan to have several flyfishing education opportunities for beginner and experienced anglers, including a stream bug session, led by Dave Thorne, DNR Coldwater Stream Biologist, where we seine for stream bugs and match them to the corresponding flies. Also, fly casting demonstrations will be available for any anglers wanting to learn more about flyfishing.

- If you are not a TU member but want to attend and learn more about TU, you are welcome to participate.
- TU will provide trash bags and have work gloves available for those who need them.
- Please wear appropriate clothing and footwear for being in brushy and rocky terrain along the streams, roads, and trails.
- We highly recommend that you bring and use your favorite tick repellant.
- If you are willing and able to help remove trash from shallow parts of the river (conditions permitting) and along the river’s edge, please bring your waders.
- Because of the risks associated with picking up trash along trails and streams, any children participating in the event must be accompanied by an adult.
- Special thanks to our friends at Still Hollow Distillery for sponsoring the door prizes.
- Both PPK and Mountaineer Chapters will have raffle tickets available for purchase at the event. PPK members not attending - Please mail in your chapter raffle tickets by April 15. PPK will conduct its raffle drawing at the event.
- If we get severe weather that makes it necessary to postpone the event, please check the PPKTU Facebook site for information regarding potential postponement.
- If you have any questions about the event, please contact PPKTU using its Facebook site.