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Bayshore Regional Watershed Council Meeting and Free Tree Distribution

Holmdel is included in the Bayshore Regional Watershed Council. The group welcomes people to come listen, or become involved, about projects of interest in the Bayshore. 

NEW BUSINESS 
1) Free Tress Available  
2) Letter Against Bayshore Regional Sewage Authority Wind Turbine 
3) NY-NJ Baykeeper Creek Clean-ups: Spring - May 14 in Keyport/Fall 
4) Clean Ocean Action Spring Beach Sweeps 
5) Shrewsbury River Clean up of Garbage Barge  
6) Horseshoe Crab Monitoring dates & times for 2011 
7)  Summer Seining Survey: Dates/Times/Locations 
8) Establishment of Keansburg Env. Commission 
   
OLD BUSINESS 
9) LNG - Update 
10) Conaskonck Point Preservation Access  
11)  Freneau Woods Preservation 
12) Stone Road Meadows & Hazlet Planning Board 
13) NJDEP & Raritan Bay Oyster Restoration Project 
14) Dredge Material Mgmt. & Monmouth County/Phase II of Bayshore DMMP 
  
Volunteer Projects: 
a)      Spring Horseshoe Crab Monitoring 
b)      Osprey Nest Monitoring 
c)       Harbor Heron Monitoring 
d)      Green Map for Bayshore 
e)      Storm Drain marking 
f)       Summer & Fall Seining Survey 
g)      Winter Seal Haul-Out sites Survey 

ABOUT THE TREES
Free trees will be given out on a first come and first serve basis.  Feel free to get some trees to plant in your community or around the Bayshore region.The free trees are bare root.

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The type and their sizes are as follows: Eastern Red cedar 6-10 inches tall (1 year old), Norway Spruce 8-18 inches tall (2 years old), Bayberry shrub 6-19 inches tall. Please bring your own pail or container to take the plants home. Please no more than 25 plants per person. As long as the roots are kept moist, not wet, and the plants are located in shady, cool location you have about 20-30 days to plant them. Once the trees are gone, they  are gone. First come, first serve.  



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