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Stop the Rock Harvesters from Deep Creek in Tenn (From the Friends of the Cumberland Trail) New

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Date: Jun 02 2008, 14:33 GMT
From: ditchbitch

Dear friends of the Cumberland trail:

You are getting this email because you either:

1)      want to see the rock harvesting stopped and:

2)      have a flexible work schedule and can work on a weekday or:

3)      can hike down challenging steep areas or:

4)      are adept at using a GPS unit or reading a map

In the next 2 weeks a few groups of us are going into Deep Creek in areas ahead of the rock harvesters to look for a population of an endangered flower that hopefully might give us a legal reason to try to halt the rock harvesters that have “mineral rights” to land owned by the state of Tennessee. These roc! k harve sters are devastating the land to sell the rocks to folks that live in Florida or elsewhere.

We are going out this Friday June 6^th at 10 am. We will meet in Soddy-Daisy at the McDonalds off highway 27 at the Sequoia access exit (which is the 3^rd exit from highway 153).

We will have maps and will work close to the trail along Deep Creek ahead of the rock harvesters. We will not be near them although we may hear them and I am sending you an attachment of an area they have “repaired” after they finished just to get you worked up enough to help us. The picture doesn’t even capture it. The rhodies are blooming in profusion this year amongst the devastation.

Please forward this to anyone you think could give us a hand.
Please email me back if you want to join us/or can possibly go another day next week. ALSO I will consider going next week if we have at least 4 of us if a group of you want to go then. Tell me the day you could do it.