GREEN DRINKS - this should be FREE Drinks and light food
at MILLER and MARTIN (attorneys offices), 6-9 pm

832 Georgia Avenue,
Suite 1000, Volunteer Building
Chattanooga, TN 37402-2289
main voice: (423) 756-6600

View map: www.millermartin.com/cgi-bin/acuweb/acuweb.cgi?t=chattanoogaNew.htm&s=mmweb&a=search&b=new_offices&UID=21

Directions: From Atlanta, Knoxville, or the Chattanooga Airport: Take I-75 to I-24 West toward the Chattanooga city center. From I-24, take the Downtown Chattanooga exit (Hwy. 27 North). From Hwy. 27, exit onto Martin Luther King, Jr. Blvd. East (Exit 1-A). Cross Chestnut Street, Broad Street and Market Street. The Volunteer Building is a 12 story, white structure on the far left corner of the next intersection (Georgia Avenue). Drive past the Volunteer Building on Martin Luther King, Jr. Blvd. Turn left into the Volunteer Garage at the end of the block just before going through the next intersection (Lindsay Street). A parking attendant will show you where to park your car and give you directions into the Volunteer Building. The Miller & Martin main reception area is on the 10th floor.

ALL DAY HIKE: Farr Gap to the beaches of Chilhowee Lake via Tallassee Mt.

MEET at 8:20 AM Saturday July 18 at the Cherohala Welcome Center, Tellico Plains, the 3rd building to the left when heading east on the Cherohala Skyway (TN Hwy 165). Tellico Plains is about 2 hours from Chattanooga, 15 minutes from Madisonville.

It’s about an 8 hour hike, depending on route, and counting time at the lake but not counting drive time. I rate the hike as difficult, meant for people who routinely hike for
a whole day.

Between Farr Gap and the lake, the hike will pass through an area that the Southern Appalachian Forest Coalition wants added to the Joyce Kilmer-Slickrock Wilderness. Jeff Hunter, of the Southern Appalachian Forest Coalition, will be along. (I'm assuming that Jeff & SAFC won't mind the exposure).

You may want to bring a swimsuit, towel, lunch, liquids, & flip-flops. (Both beaches are gravelly, their size depending on lake level). I will be taking 4L of water for my own use, half of it frozen.

We LEAVE at 8:30 AM Saturday July 18 from the Cherohala Welcome Center, Tellico Plains: the 3rd building to the left when heading east on the Cherohala Skyway (TN Hwy 165).

Rick Foster: habitathound@gmail.com

Chattanooga Green's call out for volunteers:

Thank you for signing up to serve on the BUILT ENVIRONMENT & SMART GROWTH Action Team.

Your Action Team meeting will be Monday, July 13 at 5:30pm at the Development Resource Center, 1250 Market Street, 3rd Floor (Planning & Design Studio Office). Free visitor parking is available behind the building off of King Street.

The doors to the building automatically lock at 5:45pm, so please arrive on time or let us know in advance if you will be late.

Also, please remember to review your section of the Climate Action Plan prior to the meeting so you are familiar with the recommendations, potential greenhouse gas reductions, and other information. You can download the Climate Action Plan at www.chattanooga.gov/ChattanoogaGreen.

We have tried to select the best meeting days and times for all 17 Action Teams based on the survey we distributed to all of you, but please confirm your attendance by calling Alma Knowles at 423-668-2262.

Karen Hundt, AICP Brad McAllister

Director Chattanooga Green Staff

Planning & Design Studio

1250 Market Street, Suite 3010

Chattanooga, TN 37402

423.668.2262

Legendary Wilderness Crusader Doug Scott to speak at Rock/Creek

National Wilderness Historian Celebrates 45th Anniversary of Wilderness Act With New Book, Urges Local Citizens to Help Leave a Natural Legacy

Who: Doug Scott, author and Policy Director, Campaign for America’s Wilderness

What: Book discussion and signing opportunity with Doug Scott

Where: Rock/Creek at Two North Shore, 301 Manufacturers Rd. St. 109 Chattanooga, TN 37405

When: Friday June 26, 2009 at 6pm (RSVP required by calling Rock/Creek at 423.266.8200 ext: 1112. Leave a message with your Name, Number, and Number of expected attendees)

Doug Scott, one of the country’s top experts on the American wilderness movement, will be speaking and signing books at Rock/Creek's Two North Shore location in Chattanooga, TN on Friday June 26, 2009 . Scott will discuss the resurgence of the movement to protect the nation’s remaining wild places, and will give local citizens advice on how to protect special wild areas in Tennessee using the tools granted to us all under The Wilderness Act.

Scott, Policy Director for the Campaign for America’s Wilderness, will read from his latest book, Our Wilderness: America’s Common Ground, a celebration in photographs of some of the country’s spectacular wild treasures and the people who have worked to forever protect them. Robert Redford writes in the book’s foreword, ”Inspired by this book…we can get to work on ensuring that more of these last great places on Earth remain wild and pure and free.” Doug is also the author of The Enduring Wilderness: Protecting Our Natural Heritage Through the Wilderness Act, a look at how the law came about and continues to be used today.

Local wilderness advocate Jeffrey Hunter will introduce the talk. Books will be available for purchase prior to the event.

A living legend in the wilderness and conservation world, Scott helped launch the original Earth Day and worked on every major piece of wilderness legislation in the last 40 years, including direct involvement in the passage of the Eastern Wilderness Acts in 1975 and the recent omnibus lands package (the first environmental legislation signed by President Obama), which protected more than two million acres of wilderness across nine states, including Virginia, West Virginia, California and Oregon.

Jeff Hunter
Tennessee Field Organizer
Southern Appalachian Forest Coalition
423-322-7866
jeff@safc.org