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Your Friends Board
Your Friends
Board of Directors works harder and has more fun than anyone can
imagine. We are all volunteers in the finest tradition of the
Volunteer State of Tennessee. We are always looking for talent and
have expanded the board in the past to bring new ideas, new faces and
new energy to our work. If you want to be involved all you have to
do is
join up and raise your hand! We have
plenty of work for you to do and have plenty of worthy projects.
Your current
board includes:
Norman Feaster,
Decherd, Tennessee President
Attorney at Law with the Legal Aid Society of Middle Tennessee and the
Cumberlands, long time hiker, tri-athlete, conservationist
Phil Johnson, Nashville, Tennessee Secretary-Treasurer
Financial Planning Professional
Glenn Himebaugh, Murfreesboro, Tennessee
Historian
Professor of Journalism, retired from full time
teaching at Middle Tennessee State
University but still serving as an adjunct professor, widely published outdoor writer,
editor of the Tennessee Outdoor Writers Association quarterly
newsletter, our
esteemed newsletter editor.
Henry Blizzard, Monteagle,
Tennessee
Ty Burnette, Monteagle,
Tennessee
Mary Priestley, Sewanee, Tennessee
Nancy Crais, Monteagle, Tennessee
Jean Jervis, Sewanee, Tennessee
Food scientist retired, on staff at the University of the South, birder
and wildflower enthusiast
Sally Hubbard, Sewanee, Tennessee
Jim
Poteet, Monteagle, Tennessee
Eric
Dempsey, Gruetli-Laager, Tennessee
Owner RUOK Studio,
avid outdoor photographer
Peggy Cregor, Altamont, Tennessee
Owner www.cregoradventures.com
and Friends volunteer coordinator
Ron Castle, Decherd, Tennessee
www.roncastle.com, web designer, strategic communications and search
engine optimization consulting, video production
Directors
Emeritus
Woody McLaughlin,
Nashville, Tennessee Past President
Real Estate Investor
and active hiker
Scott May, Memphis, Tennessee Past President
Attorney at Law, one of our land projects experts
Latham Davis,
Sewanee, Tennessee
Past president, book editor and publisher.
Charlie Nokes, Tullahoma,
Tennessee
Retired but busier than ever, membership coordinator and event planner
Advisory
Directors
Mack Prichard, Nashville, Tennessee
Tennessee State Naturalist Retired, photographer, one of
Tennessee's great treasures
Web Master
Ron Castle, Winchester, Tennessee
www.roncastle.com, web designer, strategic e-communications and search
engine optimization consulting, video production,
Friends first president and founding incorporator
Conservation Coordinator
Robert McCaleb, Cleveland, Tennessee
Coordinator & Membership
Questions
Patricia
Johnson, Nashville, Tennessee
PROJECTS
Our long term
vision for the park includes:
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Completion of
the Park Master Plan, which includes the permanent protection or
acquisition of land surrounding the park to create defensible wilderness
boundaries
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Preservation
of the Fiery Gizzard Trail through conservation easements or property
acquisition to keep one of the nation’s top twenty-five backpacking
trails open to the public
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Since the park was founded in the early
1970s, the cumulative area of the properties as grown from a little over
12,000 acres to 21,650 acres in June 2009.
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Providing
materials, funds and volunteer support for interpretive programs,
construction projects, trail maintenance and park security
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Creating and
supporting opportunities for citizen involvement and education
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Supporting
ecotourism as an environmentally sustainable economic enterprise for
Tennessee and the communities surrounding the park
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Preserving
biodiversity and a true wilderness experience for current and future
generations
AWARDS
The Friends of
South Cumberland State Recreation Area, Inc. is the recipient of the
Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation 2001 Civic
Volunteer Award.
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