{"id":639,"date":"2016-07-28T21:09:38","date_gmt":"2016-07-29T02:09:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/extremephysiology\/?p=639"},"modified":"2016-08-09T22:03:40","modified_gmt":"2016-08-10T03:03:40","slug":"day-12-service-day-at-sweeney-beach-on-the-lackawanna","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/extremephysiology\/2016\/07\/28\/day-12-service-day-at-sweeney-beach-on-the-lackawanna\/","title":{"rendered":"Day 12 – Service Day at Sweeney Beach on the Lackawanna River"},"content":{"rendered":"

Seeing that we attend a Jesuit university that cultivates men and women for others, this class wouldn’t be complete without a service day. \u00a0For the day, we spent hours at the Lackawanna River’s Sweeney Beach trying to put a dent in the elimination of the\u00a0Japanese knotweed \u2013 a highly aggressive invasive plant \u2013 that has plagued the beach.<\/p>\n

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Lackawanna River Conservation Assoc. Exec. Dir. Bernie McGurl with the EP NEPA crew<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Bernie McGurl shared with us a small portion of his trove of geographic and historical\u00a0knowledge on all things Lackawanna \u2013 maybe even on all things. \u00a0It was interesting to hear him pull together all the different elements of local history\u00a0that we had come to learn of in bits and pieces\u00a0in the previous weeks, such as the Tocks Island Dam controversy<\/a> that ultimately led to the creation of the Delaware Water Gap National recreation area\u00a0and the prescribed\u00a0fires<\/a> used to reclaim the ecology of a number of local lands. He told us how Sweeney Beach was named after the Sweeney brothers paving company located nearby.
\nAfter Bernie finished – well, not quite finished –\u00a0we were handed gloves, brand new machetes, and we turned toward the knotweed. We split up so that we were in no ones “blood circle” and took on the weed. We chopped, “raked”and grunted\u00a0for a couple hours with a hoagie break in\u00a0between. Gared almost lost a finger in the process… It was a successful day and a great way to end the last week of activity before we returned to the human performance\u00a0lab.<\/p>\n

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A day well spent tackling the notorious knotweed<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Virginia, for the EP NEPA crew…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Seeing that we attend a Jesuit university that cultivates men and women for others, this class wouldn’t be complete without a service day. \u00a0For the day, we spent hours at the Lackawanna River’s Sweeney Beach trying to put a dent in the elimination of the\u00a0Japanese knotweed \u2013 a highly aggressive invasive plant \u2013 that has … Continue reading Day 12 – Service Day at Sweeney Beach on the Lackawanna River<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":164,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","hentry","category-ep-nepa-blogs","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/extremephysiology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/extremephysiology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/extremephysiology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/extremephysiology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/164"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/extremephysiology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=639"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/extremephysiology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":645,"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/extremephysiology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639\/revisions\/645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/extremephysiology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/extremephysiology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/extremephysiology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}