The next meeting of the Bankhead Liaison Panel will be held Thursday, April 29, at 6:00 PM, in the upstairs meeting room of the Traders and Farmers Bank in the Bernice Hilton Walker Building in downtown Double Springs, AL. Please consider joining us and taking the opportunity to meet our new District Ranger, Elrand Denson. Alabama Program Manager Mark Kolinski will be giving a short report on the February restoration monitoring tour, and the proposed Lookout Trail will be on the agenda. This trail is the originally planned 6.5 mile extension of Sipsey Wilderness Trail 203, making it an 11-mile overnight trail. Wild South has been actively engaged in promoting completion of the Lookout Trail to take pressure off the Wilderness trails, which are continuing to experience heavier use all the time. Wild South would like to contribute substantial volunteer labor to this project and is going to need YOUR support. Attending this meeting and voicing your support for the Lookout Trail could make the difference between seeing it happen or not. Please consider taking this important opportunity to participate in the management of your National Forests. If we can convince the Forest Service to move forward with the Lookout Trail, we are going to need a commitment from our Helping Hands volunteers to help bring this project to fruition.

If you plan on attending the meeting and would like to carpool to Double Springs from the Wild South office in Wren, call Mark or Janice at 256-974-6166 or e-mail This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it . We'll be leaving the office at about 5:30 PM. Thanks to our volunteers for all you do for Wild South and thanks to the National Forest Foundation for supporting Helping Hands for the fourth year in a row with a grant from their Matching Awards Program.

Bankhead National Forest

Liaison Panel

Meeting Agenda

Double Springs, Alabama

April 29, 2010

6:00 Welcome Elrand Denson, District Ranger, Bankhead,

USFS

6:15 Brushy Creek Bridge Project Karen Pulliam, Engineer, NFs in AL

Paving of Leola Road

6:35 Conservation Education Outreach Projects

-Payne Demo Shortleaf Woodland Demo Jeremy McDonald, Silv Tech

-Alabama A&M Forestry Fair Stephanie Love, Silviculturist

-Tuscumbia Earth Day William Addison, TMA, Bankhead, USFS

7:00 Wagon Roads in the Sipsey Wilderness Jody Tetlow, Recreation Program Manager,

Bankhead, USFS

7:30 Timber/Thinning Monitoring Team Report Mark Kolinski, WildSouth

7:50 Lookout Trail Project Joe Nicholson, Recreation Unit Leader,

NF's in AL

8:15 Other Business Elrand Denson, District Ranger, Bankhead,

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8:45 Closeout and Schedule Next Meeting Elrand Denson, District Ranger, Bankhead,

USFS