Our East Coast Earthquake yesterday was probably a once-in-a-lifetime event, so if you missed it, well, you missed it. I was sitting in an office overlooking Raystown Lake, the largest lake of any kind in PA, which is held back with an enormous earthen dam and manipulated by a large water-control structure. So, this particular venue had a number of subplots, none of which played out with any drama due to the quake. However, it was fun to experience it with a few other people. We pretty much under-reacted, but you can bet they had the guy who monitors the dam structure on the radio in short order. I wasn’t entirely sure he even realized there was a quake. There was no sunami on the lake. It took about 30 seconds for the phones to start ringing.
Oh,yeah, I was there because that was Jeff Krause’s office. Jeff is the biologist for the Corps of Engineers Raystown Lake project. Jeff is growing chestnuts on a small patch of the 22,000 acres of uplands that surround the lake. He and his wife also lead the Raystown Branch of the PA Chapter of TACF and Jeff is a new member of the science cabinet of the TACF Board of Directors. Jeff and I were discussing the upcoming Raystown Branch restoration event on September 25 and plotting how we are going to restore the American chestnut to the 22,000 acre-Raystown project. And we will….