After more than a year of work the old prison camp on Sayres Lake has all but vanished. In September of 2007 SVSES was approached to see if it could take over the lease on the camp and use it as a environmental education center. The poor condition of the main house due to vandalism and the general lawlessness of the area convinced the Society's executive that operating the camp was beyond their means. As an alternative SVSES agreed to salvage usable materials from the site and return the area to its natural condition.
That autumn a large shed in the parking area was dismantled and the dimension lumber and metal roofing was salvaged. Attempts were initiated to remove and salvage the eighteen floating net pens but it quickly became apparent that that the cost of the salvage/clean-up would be beyond SVSES's budget abilities. Following discussions with the Fresh Water Fisheries Association, who last operated the site, SVSES was granted funding for the salvage and began removing the docks in the early spring of 2008. To view the site on Google Earth go to : http://maps.google.com/maps?t=h&hl=en&ie=UTF8&ll=49.319548,-122.30777&spn=0.033233,0.070038&z=13 Google earth has several pictutes of the camp taken before it was heavily vandalised.
The story of the Sayres Lake clean up will be continued over the next several days.
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