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       The Oxbow Trail & Park... Cleanup Continues
   DIR By: Doug K
       Date: June 15, 2019, 1:47 pm
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       Happy Anniversary Erie Canal Neighbors Association...one year
       old today.
       So the ECNA co-founders took a little time to go clean-up their
       adopted Erie Canal Trail... Oxbow Loop.
       Here's Mike ready to trim
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       And Doug, ready to go
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       And here's what the view looks like today
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       And we managed to get the waterfront clean of all the ragweed
       and most cattails.. both on the invasive species list according
       to Mike. Here's a few other pictures showing the clean-up.
       Thanks to the Canal Corporation for moving some mounds, picking
       up the piles of debris and keeping ahead of the "stick piles" we
       keep building.
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       Have to say that the Oxbow Loop (as it's know by in Canal days
       of old) has quite a few folks using it now. Saw a good array of
       bikers, hikers and walkers, even one of our Adopt-a-Trail
       Members braved a night on the island. A Father & Son were
       fishing, probably wished we weren't working today with all the
       racket we made, and a couple kids playing in the shallows
       getting wet feet reminded us why the Erie Canal is a a real
       "gem" of New York State.
       It's not hard to understand why the Governor & Erie Canal
       National Heritage Corridor folks are supporting NYPA & the Canal
       Corporation with their "Reimagine the Canal" efforts.
  HTML http://www.canals.ny.gov/reimagine/home.html
       They want the Canal brought back to a time when you could
       actually see it. You could see the beautiful countryside and
       villages all around it... there were no trees growing on the
       embankments. And people all around, below the canal, saw boats
       that seemed to "float" above the ground in the sky... not trees
       obstructed the view either way.
       It's not hard to Reimagine the Canal... you only need to uncover
       it bib by bit... town by town.
       And that is what is happening right now.
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       Re: The Oxbow Trail & Park... Cleanup Continues
   DIR By: Michael Caswell
       Date: June 16, 2019, 7:16 am
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       That's not my new hairstyle, those are goggles atop!
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