[Bristol-Birds] Preserving University Woods
- From: Don Holt <dnldhlt@xxxxxxx>
- To: bristol-birds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, butternuts@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, HerndonBirdClub@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2011 21:38:09 -0400 (EDT)
As reported in the Johnson City Press, Thursday Mar. 24:
"The ETSU student Environmental Conservation Organization (ECO) will hold a
University Woods Appreciation Day on Friday from 12:30 - 2 pm. At 12:30 pm
ETSU trails supervisor Ben Appleby will lead a trail maintenance excursion that
will involve simple trail clean-up, drain maintenance and trash removal. At 2
pm Tim McDowell. faculty member in the biological sciences dept. will conduct a
spring wildflower walk. Both events will begin in parking lot 13, just south
of Sherrod Library on the west side of Southwest Ave. near the concrete
railroad bridge underpass. An entrance to the trail is located at the far end
of this small parking lot. ECO vice-pres. Cheyenne Peavler said, "A lot of
people here feel that the value of the woods themselves far outweighs any of
the benefits that might come with development, so we want to get people out on
the trails and show administrators that we really appreciate them and are using
them." "
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I remember as a student going with John Warden to study botany in these
woods. He taught us about the old trees there that had probably seen the days
of native Americans who used fire as an ecological management tool to maintain
this forest. I remember feeling how special to be in the presence of a living
system that stretched back in time to ancient cultures, and even longer. It
never occurred to me that someday the university might consider throwing that
away, for whatever reason.
I will go to the Appreciation Day event and re-connect with the past on
several levels. And, I hope, with the future, both of the forest and of these
students who dare to care. Please join us.
Don Holt
Johnson City
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