Winding Waters Group

Bartholomew, Brown, Decatur, Jackson and Jennings Counties

The Winding Waters Group General meetings are normally held the first Wednesday of the month, 7:00pm, Bartholomew Public Library. Please check the notices below for exceptions. Contact Charlie Mitch for location.

Newsletter (Click on link below to download)

Winding Waters Newsletter May 2008.pdf

Outings and Meetings and Other Events

May 7, 2008, 7:00 pm - General Meeting: Bartholomew County Public Library, Red Room. Our May program will feature Greg Buck, economist and Director of the Center for Sustainable Economics. Mr. Buck will demonstrate that, not only are there limits to growth, but that there is a viable alter- native to the dominant economic mantra of endless expansion.

May 10, 2008, 10:00 am – Hike at Crosley Fish and Wildlife Area (south of Vernon) and lunch at Stream Cliff Farms (Commiskey) - Crosley FWA (south of Vernon) and Stream Cliff Farms (Commiskey) Meet at the Crosley Office just off of State Road 3 after the 7 & 3 split at 10am or meet in the Hobby Lobby parking lot in Columbus at 9:15am. Hike at the Wildlife Area and lunch at Stream Cliff Herb Farm a few miles down the road. For more information, email Brian with subject heading "Hike May".

http://www.in.gov/dnr/fishwild/publications/crosley.htm

http://www.streamclifffarm.com/

June 4, 2008, 7:00 pm - General Meeting: Bartholomew County Public Library, Red Room. Local Winding Waters member Dave Porter will share some of his mountaineering adventures with us. Dave is a very experienced mountain and ice climber and has scaled some very challenging peaks from the Cascades to the Andes.

June 7, 2008, 10:00 am - Bean Blossom Bottoms (a Sycamore Land Trust property) near Bloomington - 9AM at Jay-C at West Hill Shopping Center on SR 46 in Columbus or 10AM at the site. For more information, email Brian with subject heading "Hike June".

http://www.bloomington.in.us/~sycamore/bbbnp.html

July 2, 2008, 7:00 pm - General Meeting: Bartholomew County Public Library, Red Room. Permaculture Activist editor/publisher, Keith Johnson will be with us. Keith has taught permaculture concepts for 25 years, was a co-designer of Earthaven Ecovillage in North Carolina and is founder of A.P.P.L.E. (Alliance for a Post Petroleum Local Economy) located in Bloomington.

July 19, 2008, 10:00 am - Outing: Hike, Off the People Trail, Columbus. Hike off the People Trail in the woods along Haw Creek. If traveling East on 25th Street, turn left on Marr Road. At 32nd Street, turn left and park along the people trail (parking may be limited, so bikes and carpooling suggested, or park in the neighborhood). We will meet where 32nd dead ends at the curve. Good hike for children, about one hour, more or less, depending on weather. This is a heavily wooded area with lots of trails running through it along the creek, very pretty. Some of you in the area will know it as the spot "where there is a park bench with a pile of mulch next to the People Trail". For more information, email Brian with subject heading "Hike July".

August 9, 2008, 2:00 pm - Outing: Picnic at Dennis Tibbetts'. Swimming, botanizing, feeding the fish, and a pitch-in supper. Directions: From Columbus on State Road 11, go exactly 1.1 miles south of the green “Waynesville” sign. The drive is on the right; look for an orange traffic cone. For more information contact Dennis Tibbetts, 812- 372-6476.

September 13, 2008, 9:00 am - Outing: Knobstone Trail Hike. The 58 mile Knobstone Trail is the longest continuous hiking trail in Indiana. We will hike a 7 mile loop beginning and ending at the Spurgeon Hollow Trailhead, near Salem, Indiana The first half of the hike will be easy walking through a moist valley. The second half will be moderately rugged ridge top hiking. For more information on the Knobstone trail see the Indiana DNR website at: http://www.in.gov/dnr/knobstone/ .

Directions to the Spurgeon Hollow Trailhead: From Interstate I-65 take exit 29, Scottsburg, IN. Go west on Hwy 56 for aprox. 18 miles to first stoplight in Salem. Turn right (North) onto Hwy 135 and go 3.5 miles and turn right on Delaney Park Road. After 4.4 miles the road goes left after crossing an old iron bridge. At 5.6 miles from Hwy 135 is Spurgeon Hollow Trailhead on right down a gravel road. Watch for the “KT” post.

For more information on the hike, email Charlie with subject heading "Hike September".

We welcome your suggestions or offers of program / speaker ideas. Contact Tim Wilson with your ideas.

Winding Rivers Executive Committee Members and Other Contacts:

     Chair:                                   Charlie Mitch
     Program:                              Tim Wilson
     Conservation:                      Shondra Zaborowski
     Political and Legislative:     Rebecca Lorenz
     Outings:                                Brian Smith
     Publicity:                              Dennis Tibbetts
     Membership:                        Rovene Quiqley