FROM THE NETWORK STAFF
Our Volunteers Make the Difference!

Bill Foster
Watershed Educator

While those of us who work for the Network strive to make a lasting impact in the Watershed, it is the volunteers we support who truly make the organization visible throughout the watershed. Without their continuing good work, we would merely be drops in the proverbial bucket. We hope that with an understanding of the scope of their efforts, you will agree that your investment in us is well served.

Workshops and informational events have been a strength of the network since its inception, and we continue to concentrate on these as prime opportunities to reach and teach the public. Network staff have recently conducted workshops around the watershed dealing with private well safety, stormwater management, and farmstead emergency planning. Our volunteers, however, have addressed audiences on lake levels, landfills, sediment pollution, stewardship and more as they have participated in a broad range of seminars, tours and discussions.

Volunteers like Roxy Johnston and Gene Hocutt have met with classes from Wells College to South Seneca, demonstrating watershed concepts and helping students develop concepts for our annual essay contest. In all, our ability to provide volunteers with materials and information as they present information to the public has allowed the Network to address nearly fifteen hundred residents over the first three months of 2003.

There is much more in the works for the coming months. Check the Cayuga Lake Watershed Network website for more on the efforts mentioned above and for upcoming opportunities. Our website has greatly expanded over the past months, due in no small part to the efforts of our new volunteer web-master, Judy Pipher. A big THANK YOU to Judy and all of the other volunteers that make so much of what we do happen. The Network would not exist without people like YOU.