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Sravan Konda
Makes Eagle!
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Sravan Konda, Troop 27's Seventh Eagle Scout passed his board of
review on April 16, 2012.
He is the first Boy Scout in Troop 27 to earn the Centennial Eagle
Scout badge, marking the 100th anniversary of the Eagle Scout Award.
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Venture Crew 27 Celebrates Eagle
Scouts
Evan Iverson and RickJohn Dodge
Eagle Scout Evan Iverson |
2012 is the 100th Anniversary
of the Eagle Scout Award. |
Eagle Scout RickJohn Dodge |
March 14, 2012
Fox Island's
Venture Crew 27 recently produced it's first two Eagle Scouts, Evan
Iverson and RickJohn Dodge. Both young men had worked their way
through the ranks as Boy Scouts, and joined Venture Crew 27 in 2011.
Each had completed their Eagle requirements in December 2011, and passed
their board of review in early 2012. Both young men will receive
the Centennial Edition of the Eagle Scout badge. Congratulations! |
Coyote Control Update
March 14, 2012 -
Copyright 2012,
FoxIslandWA.net
Coyote activity is on the rise again.
Five new sightings in February and
sixteen in January, 2012 has already exceeded half of the total
number of coyote sightings reported in all of 2011.
Coyote Report, posted by Mark on
FoxIslandWA.net
March 09, 2012 9:07 PM - Attacked on Bike by 3 Coyotes - Island
Blvd. & Kamus Dr
I was riding my bike past the fire station when one coyote ran
out in front of my bike and was trying to bite my front tire. 2 more
smaller coyotes approached on my right side and were nipping at my
legs. I gave one of them a kick, I eventually outran them as I went
down the hill. A resident living near
the Tree Farm on 11th Ave reported this incident of coyotes
attempting to attack his dogs:
Two coyotes stalked my dogs last week. We live above a wooded
ravine. One coyote stood at the edge of the ravine as a decoy
distracting my dogs while the other started circling around behind.
When I came onto the deck, the 2nd coyote was about 15 feet from my
dogs who were barking at the decoy, they never saw the second
coyote. The coyotes saw me and ran back into the ravine. The coyotes are increasing in numbers every year, and several packs
are now roaming the island, hunting and killing family pets and aggressively approaching
people on a regular basis. Their howls can be heard in the wee hours
of the night. The most concentrated
activity recently seems to be along 7th Ave & Fox Drive, and along 11th Ave
near the Tree farm near Nootka. The USDA has indicated that
there are some aggressive coyotes that have lost their fear of humans,
triggering the undesirable behavior. They have indicated the best
method for dealing with this is to remove the problem coyotes. Post your coyote sightings on our
Fox Island
Coyote
Reporting page, to help the USDA focus on areas where they are
most active at the moment. The USDA staff will NOT enter private property
where they have not first obtained written permission to do so.
If you have coyotes on or near your property and wish to work with
the USDA, please
contact us to obtain a property owner
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FAQ's On the Coyote Control Fund:
Will someone come on my property to catch coyotes?
The USDA staff will NOT enter private property where they have not first
obtained written permission to do so. If you have coyotes on or near
your property and wish to work with the USDA, please
contact us to obtain a property owner
agreement.
How Will They Catch the Coyotes?
The USDA staff will use humane techniques approved by the American
Veterinary Association such as padded foot hold traps on private property.
There will be no snares, leghold traps or poisons used.
Where will the money be used?
A check for $5345 was written to the USDA on December 29th, comprising
all donations collected to date. The USDA has estimated it will take them 110
to 120 hours to do the work to
remove a select group of problem coyotes this year. $5000 is needed to provide initial remediation efforts, and follow up
control in the spring, when the new litters of coyotes emerge.
All funds collected will be spent on this effort.
Please continue posting
coyote sightings on the
Fox Island
Coyote
Reporting page, so the USDA people can get a sense of where they are most
frequently seen. They will use this information to identify and
locate the problem coyotes that are making aggressive contact with pets,
livestock and humans.
Please
contact us to get more information about
donating to the fund, or helping to resolve this important issue in our
community. - John Ohlson
Raised Walkway Extension
Eagle Scout Project CompletedDecember 4, 2011
Eagle Scout Candidate
Sravan Konda of Fox Island's Troop 27 recently completed his Eagle
Scout project, at the Fox Island Nature Center.
The extension to the 2007 raised walkway project, added a new section to
the Western Loop Trail entrance. |
Volunteers lay the beams that will hold up the new walkway.
Sravan and his father, attaching the final boards to the walkway. |
FICRA Sponsors New Cub
Scout Pack 27
October 6, 2011
 At the October FICRA meeting, the
FICRA Board voted unanimously to sponsor Cub Scout Pack 27,
to be based at the Nichols Community Center on Fox Island.To date, 9
boys have joined the Pack, and most have already earned their Bobcat
badges! Their next outing will be a bike hike to Orting.
Fox Island boys ages 7 - 10 years old are encouraged to join,
visit
our Pack 27 website for more information.
Troop 27 Scouts Help Clean Up Fox Island Sand Spit
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On Saturday, June 11th, Boy Scouts from Fox Island's
Troop 27 organized a work party to help PenMet Parks clean up the
Fox Island
Sand Spit, which was recently acquired by PenMet Parks from the Tacoma Demolay organization.
With state funding approved recently during this year's legislative session,
the plans to improve the property for public use can proceed.
Work on
the property Saturday included demolishing an old swimming float, removing invasive
plant species and installing no trespassing signs at the boundaries of the
property. |
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Ivy removal from the old growth cedar trees.
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Scouts Cameron and Colin install a new no trespassing
sign at the southern boundary of the sand spit property. |
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 Fox Island Celebrates Six New Eagle Scouts
 April 9, 2011
As 2010 came to a close, Fox Island's own Scout Troop 27 produced its first Eagle
Scouts. Five Eagle Scouts to be exact. The five
boys completed their Eagle requirements prior to the end of
2010, the BSA's Centennial celebration year, marking 100 years
of Scouting in America. In March, a sixth Eagle, joined
them and all received their awards at the Fox Island Yacht Club on
April 9, 2011. Sponsored by FICRA, Troop 27 was formed just three
short years ago in November 2007, led by Scoutmaster John Ohlson.
 The boys topped off an exciting year of Scouting in 2010,
including sleeping in snow caves, canoeing in Puget Sound,
sleeping under the stars at summer camp, and taking a trip to
Fort AP Hill, VA to participate in the 2010 National Scout
Jamboree, where they joined 40,000 other Scouts in BSA's
Centennial Celebration.
Each of the Scouts completed a
Community Service Project at
the Fox Island Nature Center, which involved building three
picnic areas, a raised walkway and staircase, and trail
improvement projects that creates a new trail leading to the
Nature Center's footbridge, and a new brick path at the Nature
Center's native species garden.
From left: Dallas Thornton of Fox
Island, Jesse Long
of Gig Harbor,
Max Reetz, Grant Toepfer, Jensen Bond, and Alex Ohlson
of Fox Island
all earned the special '2010 Centennial Edition' of the Eagle badge.
 Only 5 percent of Boy Scouts earn the rank of Eagle,
and of the 13 charter members of Troop 27, these six boys make up
46 percent of those who started the trail to Eagle together in Troop
27's first year.
Tony Moore, FICRA's Chartered Organization
Representative to the Troop, presented a commemorative plaque to
Troop Committee Chairman Bill Reetz, listing the names of the Eagle
Scouts who have joined the "Troop 27 Eagle Scout Honor Roll".
The plaque will be displayed in the Scouts meeting
place at the Nichols Center.
As 2011 begins, the boys have helped form Venture Crew 27, a BSA young adult
oriented youth group sponsored by FICRA, for boys and girls aged
14 - 21.
FICRA congratulates the new Eagle Scouts!
Learn more about Scouting on Fox Island at:
www.Troop27BSA.com
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12
Years On The Web!
On Thursday, June 11, 2011 FoxIsland.net celebrated the anniversary of it's
12th year online!
With over 195,000 visitors as of June 2011, FoxIsland.net has become the south sound's
online resource for what's going on in the Fox Island - Gig Harbor area.
On June 2, 2011, FICRA has announced it will discontinue the
FoxIsland.net website, and pursue a new website under a new domain name.
FoxIslandWA.net has become our new home, serving the Fox Island
community into the future.
We have also launched a new Smartphone enabled website:
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Domain Name for the Fox Island Community
June 30, 2011 marked the last day for our website under the FoxIsland.net
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it for personal use, and we are now found under a new domain name:
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