Loantaka Brook & Park Clean up June 7th
The Great Swamp Watershed Association (GSWA) and the Morris County Park Commission are organizing a clean up of Loantaka Brook from 9:30 a.m. to noon on Saturday, June 7, as part of National River Cleanup Week 2008.
If you would like to join in go to the Loantaka Brook Reservation Kitchell Pond Area Pavilion in the Convent Station section of Morris Township, or contact Kelley Curran at 973-538-3500, ext. 16 or email kcurran@greatswamp.org.
More information is availible at www.nationalrivercleanup.org.
For local information on the Convent Station neighborhood and to see all the homes currently listed for sale in the MLS system visit Convent Station Real Estate. Other events happening in the Convent Station area include the Bike & Hike at Loantaka Park.
Tags: Convent Station, Convent Station Real Estate, Great Swamp, Loantaka, Morris County Park Commission, Morris Township
May 23rd, 2009 at 11:48 pm
It seems that someone has already cleaned out Loantaka pond. There is a fake coyote and a flashing light has been installed to discourage water fowl from landing and breeding. My husband and I always enjoyed seeing the baby ducklings and geese every spring.
I loved watching the swans glide and the troops of geese land with swishing precision of ace pilots. We also viewed with great interest the family of snapping turtles that lived below the little foot bridge.
The loss of the fowl seems to have caused these turtles to disappear as well. The field of rosemary that was home to bevies of gold finches has been mowed to crew cut precision. Also mowed down were grasses that were home to blue birds.
Clean up Loantaka??? It’s been cleaned out of everything that we had come to love about the place!!
I know what the “company line” to this comment is. The geese poop and this is unclean and annoying. Yes, geese poop, but so does every animal. That’s no reason to banish them. I recently saw a mother goose and her babies stuck on a small median on
Columbia turnpike.
There is a sign at Loantaka that says feeding the waterfowl is unhealthy for them. The way they are treated now is infinitely more unhealthy.