12/15/1994 CONSERVATION COMMISSION Minutes

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appropriate to this on not but several people have come to us about herring ending up on the bogs and, not necessarily your bogs, is there any way of preventing this? RYN: I don't pump into mine. What happens is when I open my flumes here, the floodpit, within two hours of opening the herring are there. They sense the sound, they sense something; I think it's the sound of the water rushing. What I usually do is, the water comes in down this main ditch right here* Instead of putting my boards in here to back all the water up from here and flood all my bogs, I leave this open for about three or four hours. I know they are going t show up here within two hours. I let them come through, pass through and go through, as many as I can. I go out and check it and if I don't see a lot of them there again, then I go back and shut my boards up. This has worked good the last few years because a lot of them come up. But as soon as you crack that board, you pull one of those boards out and within two hours the herring are there. Even if you don't see them, they're there. SH RiAN: Nonny. may I ask a question? RRIDAY: Certainly) . The enforcement order given that occasioned this whole thing was November of ' ; the work was done when, Don, in ' In the spring. ERYN: When, no, it was done in the fall; it was done in August, before harvest. HER AN: My question is, the banks then came in under natural vegetation over the last year; is that your recommended procedure for the future to wait for natural vegetation to come in to stabilize the banks? ERYN: I wouldn't be doing it in the fall; I would do it in the spring. I discussed with you and other people, this is the fourth time I have done this and each time, I usually do it in the spring, very early in the spring and within a couple of months of doing it, the natural stand is growing back in, That particular time that you came in I had done it in the fall . I didn't do it in the spring. I should have done it in the spring but I did it in the fall and that is the wrong time to do it, it doesn't give the banks a chance to stabilize after you have knocked some of the vegetation down. Doing it in the spring, we have a couple of months, by the end of June the vegetation is right hack up three or four feet tall. That's why my recommendation and our recommendation is that I do it early in the spring to give natural vegetation a chance to come back in. You can clearly see from the picture just how the vegetation comes hack in here. It has done it and this is not the first time; this is the fourth time I have done this in thirteen years. SHER AN: I would have another question then for Don Liptac , . Would waiting for the natural vegetation to come in instead of doing some stabilization with mulch or something else, hydroseeding, or whatever, would that waiting for the natural vegetation to come in, would that be what SCS would recommend as hest management practice?