latest on Beaver Run

At the meeting of the Westm'd County Sportsmans league we discussed the progress being made on this project. We now have approx. 1500 names on the petitions & more are still out.almost everyone we talked to was in favor of opening it . Mike Reese,who is running for County Comm. on the Republican ticket,said he would support opening it as long as there were no safety problems in doing so.he also said that he would work with us to get this done.WE NEED YOUR HELP. this thurs., May 10th at 10 am at the commisioners meeting at the county court house,we need some one to ask each Comm. what his view is on this matter, for the record. I will be in the hospital & unable to make it,but since we are near the primary election we need to remind these gentlemen that we vote & that this is important to us.    IF NOT NOW, WHEN -IF NOT YOU, WHO ????       SAM

The proposal calls for fishing south of Rt. 286.  Sure the Beav is surrounded by woods, but it's also surrounded by a crap load of ATV trails and roads to access their dozens of gas wells.  Don't let anybody tell you that there isn't anywhere to fish there, it would just be a lie.  The physical location of the parking lots would have to be agreed upon between the PFBC and the MAWC.  One obvious place that comes to mind is that huge area that is already cleared and leveled at the 286 bridge.  There's another area that could be expanded upon to fit more vehicles down by Trees Mills.    At Slickville, it wouldn't take much to open up an area next to that bridge either.  As for the litter........ I am so tired of hearing about people not wanting to open an area to fishing because of littering fears.  The reality is that there will be some litter.  BUT, there are plenty of groups that want to help in adopting the lake and keep it clean.  I would even be willing to come and pick up litter on a scheduled basis.  One thing is for sure, the Quemahoning Dam is a beautiful lake and the PFBC is down there all the time now that it is opened to the public.  This resulted in a considerable decrease in litter.  I guess people got tired of paying fines.  As for boats........ sure it would be nice.   But lets not go there right now.  We fishermen need to show the MAWC and the PFBC that we can be good stewards of this resource before they would even consider us taking out boats out there.  Make that call to your county commissioners and local legislator/senator and lets get this thing moving.  I heard that this is becoming a topic in the commissioners office right now.  If we want this bad enough, and it's an election issue, we can get 'er done.

I'm not sure if I can make the meeting but did just call the commissioners office, mentioned that I called about a month ago to show support for this and wanted to know if they have taken a stance on this yet.
 
I live about an hour from the Beav but would love to come and help on an organized cleanup to open it and for future cleanups.
 
The northern portion of the lake will remain closed to serve as  nursery water and probably to keep folks away from the dam.
 
Go to the meeting, make a phone call to the commissioners, offer a hand to clean up... Do Something if you want to see this happen!