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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/agricul<http://www.state.tn.us/agriculture/administ/eac2.html>ture/administ/eac2.html<http://www.state.tn.us/agriculture/administ/eac2.html>

Thanks for your attention, and hope to see many of you on NPLD.
 
Jim
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