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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
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