[Trilug-mtb-announce] [NCFATS] American Tobacco Trail - Chatham County

[Jeremy Portzer]

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From: "Morris, Robert" <RMorris at intersil.com>
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Subject: [NCFATS] American Tobacco Trail - Chatham County
Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2003 08:54:49 -0500

Subject: HELP RE-OPEN THE AMERICAN TOBACCO TRAIL IN CHATHAM COUNTY

Here is your opportunity to fulfill your New Year's resolution to get more
exercise and be involved in a project to better your community! The
American Tobacco Trail is a converted rail trail that when completed will
stretch 22 miles from downtown Durham to southern Wake County.
The trail is being built by public and private partnerships and a LOT of
volunteer labor. The Friends of the American Tobacco Trail have almost
completed the southern Durham County section and are ready to move south
into Chatham County. This is where we need your help.

At one time the Chatham County section was open and in relatively good
condition then came last December's ice storm. Now large stretches of this
section are simply impassible due to downed trees. We would like to get as
much of this storm damage cleaned up this winter as possible.

Opening this section of the trail now will allow folks to start using it
years earlier than would otherwise be possible. It will also raise public
awareness and support among the local community for completion of the 2
bridges in this section over Panther and Northeast Creeks.

The Friends of the American Tobacco Trail will be holding several work days
this winter in an effort to put a dent in the cleanup task. These work days
will be held on days other than the 1st. and 3rd. Saturdays to avoid
conflicts with the Durham County work.. Some may be on Saturdays and some
on Sundays.

Right now no firm dates have been established but we are making a list of
people who would like to be notified of upcoming Chatham County work days.

We can make use of volunteers of all abilities but we especially need folks
with chain saws and also a few folks with pickup trucks that wouldn't mind
hauling logs and branches up and down the corridor to locations that we can
dump them. Even if you don't have a chain saw or pickup truck we still need
even more hands to make light work of this task.

If you would like to be put on the notification list or have questions
please contact:
Steve Lund at:
slund-att at pobox.com (preferred) or
(919) 481-1300

Please indicate if you have access to a chain saw or pickup truck and have
a preference for Saturday or Sunday workdays.
Happy Trails,
Steve Lund

Triangle Rails-to-Trails Conservancy
Friends of the American Tobacco Trail
P.S. Please fee free to forward this message to any other individuals or
groups that you know of that might be interested in helping out.


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