On Dec 9, 6:04 pm, "Edward Frank" <[email protected]> wrote:
> Will,
>
> Sounds great! For those of you who missed it in the news is this note about
> the expansion of Congaree National Park from November:
>
> http://wilderness.org/content/congaree-national-park-expanded
>
> Congaree National Park expanded: Our work with South Carolina’s local youth
> and legislators
>
> By Alex Morris on November 12, 2009 - 12:58pm
>
> Of the 50 states, South Carolina is not one often associated with land
> preservation. But that’s not the case this fall. A bill passed by Congress in
> October has granted part of the funding to expand the state’s only national
> park and the home of the nation’s largest tract of old-growth bottomland
> hardwood forest.
>
> By adding 2,000 acres to the park, the expansion will unite the park, which
> currently exists in two separate neighboring units.
>
> Connecting the eastern and western portions of the park, the land is almost
> completely acquired and will offer a refuge to songbirds, owls, woodpeckers,
> white-tailed deer, otters and raccoons. The addition will also create
> protection for trees including dwarf cypress, large swamp cottonwoods and
> rare water hickories. Congaree needs about $1.37 million to complete the
> acreage.
>
> Read the full story at the link above.
>
> Edward Frank
>
> "Oh, I call myself a scientist. I wear a white coat and probe a monkey every
> now and then, but if I put monetary gain ahead of preserving nature...I
> couldn't live with myself." - Professor Hubert Farnsworth
>
> Volunteer-ChuckSchaeffer-teaching-on-the-boardwalk-CongareeNationalPark-SouthCarolina.jpg
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I'm ready to help anyway I can again. Also looking forward to a great
group of guys and gals. Two things on my list to do is a boat put-in
from the river to measure more old champs and find new champs and the
other look for new big tree's in the new land the park has there talk
of there beening nice big tree also on the new land. I like for one
day to put -in by canoe to measure the BIG pine island and other pine
growing tall in the park away from the trail!
One big big problem is the rain right now the congaree is
flooded !
here the web site that will let you know where the water is
http://newweb.erh.noaa.gov/ahps2/hydrograph.php?wfo=cae&gage=sans1&view=1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1&toggles=10,7,8,2,9,15,6&type=2
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