From TTA-Nashville at tennesseetrails.net Sat Sep 17 14:34:45 2005 From: TTA-Nashville at tennesseetrails.net (TTA Nashville Chapter Mailing List) Date: Sat, 17 Sep 2005 13:34:45 -0500 Subject: [TTA-Nashville] TTA Nashville Chapter updates Message-ID: <9325fd9205091711344daa02b5@mail.gmail.com> Two events are planned in Middle Tennessee for National Public Lands Days, Saturday Sept 24th. YANAHLI WILDLIFE REFUGE A figure eight loop trail will be completed at Yanahli Wildlife Refuge near Columbia, TN, as area residents and volunteers join the largest annual coast-to-coast, single-day volunteer restoration effort for America's public lands. Local volunteers from Tennessee Trails Association (TTA) will roll up their sleeves and devote their day to trail building at Yanahli as part of the 12th annual National Public Lands Day (NPLD) on Saturday, September 24. Sponsored for the seventh consecutive year by Toyota Motor Sales, USA, the event gives Americans an annual chance to give back to the very lands they use to hike, bike, climb, swim, explore, picnic or just plain relax. Fount Bertram, TTA President, encourages both current and prospective TTA members to join him for trail building from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., including a short break at noon for lunch, a dedication ceremony and a short hike. Plans are to meet at the BP station just off I-65 at the Columbia exit (Highways 99 and 412). "We will provide tools, but if you have your own, bring them", says Bertram. Volunteers should also bring lunch, lots of water, gloves, snacks, insect repellant and sunblock. Bertram will give full-size NPLD posters and TTA handbooks to the first 40 registrants. >From building a footbridge along the Continental Divide National Scenic Trail in Rocky Mountain National Park, to helping preserve the National Monument to the Forefathers in Plymouth, Massachusetts, as many as 90,000 Americans are expected at 650 sites for NPLD in 2005, preserving and protecting their favorite public places for themselves and future generations. For the second year in a row, volunteers who work at a site managed by any of five federal agencies will be rewarded with a pass good for free entry any day during the next year at public land sites managed by those agencies: Bureau of Land Management, National Park Service, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, and USDA Forest Service. By educating volunteers at sites across the country, NPLD maintains the legacy of the Civilian Conservation Corps, an army of 3 million Americans who in the 1930's countered the devastation of the Dust Bowl and the American chestnut blight by planting more than 3 billion trees, building 800 state parks, and fighting forest fires. For more information, contact Fount Bertram at 615-765-5357 or via e-mail at fwbertram at heartoftn.net NATCHEZ TRACE PARKWAY Ranger T. J. Jackson of the Natchez Trace Parkway is planning a work day on the Garrison Creek trail on the NTP. Also Sept 24th, at 7:00 AM, please bring hand loppers if you have them. For more information, please call Ranger Jackson at 790-9323. NASHVILLE CHAPTER MONTHLY MEETING Also, the Nashville Chapter meeting place for September only has been changed. It's at the Holeman Building conference room at 7:00PM on Tuesday, Sept 27th. This is still on the Ellington Ag Center campus, up the hill from the normal meeting location. Signs will show the way. In October, the meeting will be back at the normal place. Questions, call Jim at 615.356.6246. On the night of the meeting call 615.300.3002. For a map and better directions see: http://www.state.tn.us/agriculture/administ/eac2.html Thanks for your attention, and hope to see many of you on NPLD. Jim -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://tennesseetrails.net/pipermail/tta-nashville_tennesseetrails.net/attachments/20050917/81f0eadf/attachment.htm From TTA-Nashville at tennesseetrails.net Sun Oct 23 22:14:02 2005 From: TTA-Nashville at tennesseetrails.net (TTA Nashville Chapter Mailing List) Date: Sun, 23 Oct 2005 21:14:02 -0500 Subject: [TTA-Nashville] TTA meeting reminder Message-ID: <9325fd920510231914i61a6624drc8160208345ec0a0@mail.gmail.com> The monthly Nashville Chapter meeting will be at 7:00pm CT at the TWRA Regional Office, Ellington Ag Center, 5105 Edmondson Pike. The program will be presented by TWRA's Big Game Program Coordinator Daryl Ratajczak, on elk re-introduction projects. Refreshment will be provided. Please plan to attend. From TTA-Nashville at tennesseetrails.net Fri Nov 18 21:16:09 2005 From: TTA-Nashville at tennesseetrails.net (TTA Nashville Chapter Mailing List) Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2005 20:16:09 -0600 Subject: [TTA-Nashville] Meeting reminder Message-ID: <9325fd920511181816k615fa530kd17c823bb513fc91@mail.gmail.com> This is a friendly reminder of the upcomming Nashville Chapter monthly meeting. It's on Tuesday, November 22 at 7:00 PM at the Region 2 Headquarters building on the Ellington Ag Campus. This month's speaker is Nancy Dorman, the head of Friends of Beaman Park. She will update us on the progress of the park. This is the last formal meeting of 2005. Please come and bring a friend. Jim