** November meeting cancelled**

Members:  After much deliberation, the November meeting will be cancelled.  Apologies for the short notice.

Steve Cobb's Thanksgiving Turkey Fly (Photo:Orvis)

The Thanksgiving Holiday is a time when most of us will be gathering with family and friends, preparing large meals, and for many planning to travel or host out of town guests.  With the date of our meeting being so close to the Holiday, and not wanting to add another item to everyone's busy calendar, we will be cancelling this months meeting.

We truly hope you have safe, and Happy Thanksgiving.

Our next monthly meeting will not be until the New Year (January 28th, 2025), when we will welcome Zack Rudd our local Conservation Officer.  We hope to see you then.

Fall Cleanup Reminder for Oct 27th!!

 

October Meeting Reminder

 Just a quick reminder:

What: Monthly Meeting/ Annual Elections/ LRSA presentation

Where: DAR Log Cabin, Rose Garden Park, Bethlehem

When: October 22nd, 7pm

MCWA Fall Clean Up, October 27th

 

October Meeting Reminder

 Join us on Tuesday, October 22nd for our annual meeting.  This month we will hold our E-Board and Board of Directors elections, as well as welcome Matt MacConnell from the Lehigh River Stocking Association.  Earlier this summer, the LRSA placed a water quality probe in the Monocacy Creek, and Matt will be presenting the findings from that probe deployment.

Here is a video Matt made when he deployed the probe:

 

Meetings are held at the DAR log Cabin in the Rose Garden PArk on 8th Ave, and begin promptly at 7pm.  

Hope to see you there!

Monthly Meetings to Resume 9/24/24

Welcome backto the Monocacy Chapter Monthly meetings!  As summer comes to a close, we will resume meeting on the 4th Tuesday of the Month in the DAR Log Cabin at 7pm.  Below is the schedule to take us through 2024, with the Spring 2025 programing to be announced soon.  As always, our meetings are free and open to the public.  We hope you can join us.

If you have any questions, please reach out to monocacytu491@gmail.com.  Thanks!

9/24/24  Kristie Fach, Wildlands Conservancy: An update of stream restoration work being done in the Archibald Conservation Area, and on Bushkill Creek

10/22/24 Matt MacConnell, Lehigh River Stocking Association: Water Quality Data Collected on Monocacy Creek. 

11/26/24 Fly Tying Night: Format TBD.

The Dates for our 2025 meetings will be:

01/28/25

02/25/25

03/25/25

04/22/25

 

Other programs:  

Monocacy TU has partnered with the Monocacy Creek Watershed Association to hold a stream cleanup, October 27th 9-11:30, Meet at Illick's Mill

Fly Fishing Film Tour:  Spring 2025.  We are in the early stages of planing to bring the Fly Fishing Film Tour back to SteelStacks in 2025.  Stay Tuned!

 

May Meeting reminder

Monocacy Creek Day Hosted by MCWA 5/10/24

 

Public comment reminder

 One final reminder about tomorrow night’s PA Department of Environmental Protection public hearing regarding the proposed warehouse/distribution center at Routes 22 and 512 in Hanover Township.

The hearing is at Nitschmann Middle School, 1002 West Union, in Bethlehem, and it starts at 6 PM

April meeting canceled…

In what is probably a first in Chapter meeting history, there is a conflict with our meeting space (DAR House) for the second month in a row. We sincerely apologize that the April meeting will have to be cancelled.  Next month will be our “Fishing the Evening Hatch” meeting, which will go on come hell or high water, or both!

Additional programming is being explored to make up for the cancellations.  

Thank you for your understanding and support of our Chapter.