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Saturday, March 13

Payne Creek Demonstration Area and Hiking Trail

8:30 a.m., Warrior Mountains Trading Company in Wren, AL

Wild South has been working with the U.S. Forest Service to develop the Payne Creek Demonstration Area on Highway 33 just north of the Sipsey River.  On March 13, Wild South staff and volunteers will assist with digging post holes, installing signs and doing maintenance on the 1/2 mile hiking trail down to Payne Creek.

Tools will be provided.  Volunteers may bring their own loppers, bow saws and hand pruners if desired.

Bring lunch, snacks, drinking water and work gloves.

Saturday, March 20

Sipsey Wilderness Trail #206 (Thompson Creek Trail)

8:30 a.m., Warrior Mountains Trading Company in Wren, AL (or at the trailhead)

The third Saturday of every month is a Wild South volunteer work day.  Trail #206 is one of 2 wilderness trails that Wild South has contracted with the USFS to maintain.  Our certified crosscut sayers will be needed! Besides crosscut work, this trail also needs trimming, downfall and debris removal.

Tools will be provided, but favorites such as bowsaws, loppers and hand pruners may be brought.

Lunch will be provided, too, to those who sign up no later than 5:00 p.m. on Thursday, March 18.

Bring drinking water, a snack and work gloves.

Wild South's Helping Hands Program is funded in part by a grant from the National Forest Foundation and by a grant from the General Fund of the Walker Area Community Foundation.