Exerpts from Davis Judson on his Eagle Scout Project:

Davis R. Judson - 14 years old (pictured to the right)

8th grader at Twelve Corners Middle School in Brighton

Member of Troop 129 based at the United Church of Pittsford

I wanted to do an Eagle project in the outdoors. I went to talk with Paula Smith of the U. S. Dept. of Agriculture. She works in the Soil and Water Conservation Dept. She didn’t have a defined project for me but she referred me to Jonathan Friedlander. I called him and talked with him a couple of times. He set up a meeting with Warren Wallace. We met out at Mendon Station Park so that he could show me the place and tell me what needed to be done. I thought it was something that I could help with. I had to go to my Scout Master, Dr. Gerald Gacioch, to get his approval.

When I got the approval, I had to get my volunteers, borrow a chain saw and some tools, borrow a truck and get the key to the Mendon Highway Dept. so we could get rid of the brush. Luckily, the weather was really good. We worked 6 hours on Sat. Nov. 9th, 6 hours Sun. Nov. 10th and 4 hours Mon. Nov. 11th. The project included:

• Removing weeds, bushes, saplings, dead wood, railroad ties Trucking the stuff to the Mendon Highway Dept. for chipping (we made about 15 trips to the dump for a total of about 265 cubic yards of brush)
  
• Removing metal posts and fencing, huge nuts, bolts etc. from the old railroad (Mr. Wallace got a scrap metal dealer to take it away)
  
• Removing rocks
  
• Picking up garbage – (interesting finds – 4 tires, a sled, a frying pan, a broom, assorted eating utensils, cans, bottles and plastic jugs)
  

We focused primarily on the Mendon Station Park but we also went across the street and worked on the entrance to the Lehigh Valley trail.

A Special Thanks to all our Volunteers: Corbin Magee, Garrett Magee, Andy Nitschke, Andy Rzatkeiwicz, Kyle Jozefski, Steve Deneker, Andrew Fernsten, Andy Tschiderer, A.J.Paynter, Chad Paynter, William O’Brien, Evan Drahzal Gasster, Alec Greaves-Tunnell, Alec Hodgson, Matt Gacioch, Garrett Nelson, Chris Beckman, Matt Yates, Ryan Swisher, Lynne H. Magee, Bill Magee, Lauren Judson, Virginia Judson, Jay Judson, Louise Greaves-Tunnell, Jarrett Loeb, Roy Deminent, Warren Wallace,Tim Schiefen, Marcye Gregg, Dan Bears and Al Smith