The following events will take place in our local community:
The next meeting of the Brazos Valley Sierra Club will be Wednesday,
September 26 at 7:00 pm. We will be meeting at the Brazos Center, about 1/4
mile east of HWY 6 (Earl Rudder Freeway) on Briarcrest Drive (FM 1179) in
Bryan. The featured speaker will be Ayelet Hines, Texas organizer for the
national campaign to end commercial logging on public lands. She will make a
trip from Austin to meet with us. Ms. Hines states:
"Every year taxpayers lose over $1 billion subsidizing the timber industry
by paying for the construction of logging roads and selling our forests
below market value. What we get in return are waterways too silted to fish,
monocrop pine deserts in which no wildlife live, increased fire danger, and
clearcuts so ugly they break your heart."
For more information contact Dave Wade of the Brazos Valley Sierra Club at
846-3538 or dmwade@txcyber.com.
The Texas Bicycle Coalition and
the Texas Parks & Wildlife Department present a
Trail Construction Workshop
Tyler State Park
Make plans now to attend the natural surface Trail Construction/Maintenance Workshop
at Tyler State Park October 20th - 22nd.
This hands-on workshop is designed for crew leaders and park professionals who
want to learn the techniques for building sustainable natural surface trails.
Heavy emphasis will be placed on dealing with erosion problems.
The workshop starts at Noon on Friday and ends at Noon on Sunday.
The IMBA/Subaru Trail Care Crew
will conduct Friday afternoon and evening sessions on trail design and construction theory.
Saturday morning, attendees will divide into 5 teams to put those theories to work
at various locations of the Tyler State Park mountain bike trail.
Attendees will also construct a natural surface handicap accessible nature trail at the Park.
Workshop registration is $39 by September 30, 2000,
or $49 per person by October 15, 2000.
Meals and on-site primitive camping are included with the registration fee!
For additional information contact Jeanne Patterson at (214) 213-5631 or
mtbin@aol.com.
