WWALS Ambassador
Dave Hetzel will speak about the
Alapaha River Water Trail
(now looking to place signs)
and the
Withlacoochee and Little River Water Trail
(Committee just formed and looking for more members)
at the
Southern Georgia Regional Commission Council
meeting 11AM July 23rd in Pearson, GA 31642.
Update 2015-07-23: Civic Center, 786 Austin Ave. East, Pearson, GA
According to New Georgia Encyclopedia, Continue reading
In April the WWALS board approved a dozen goals for 2015,
reviewed upcoming outings and the since-approved
WATERKEEPER® Affiliate application, as well as the
Valdosta Wastewater and
pipeline situations,
and moved ahead on planning for the since-solidified
Withlacoochee and Little River Water Trail Committee,
while adding to a couple of committees.
Here are the Minutes of the 8 April 2015 WWALS Quarterly Board Meeting
approved at last night’s Board Meeting, and videos of that April meeting.
Here’s a video playlist:
Adopted 2015 Goals, WATERKEEPER, Valdosta Wastewater:
WWALS Board Videos and Minutes 2015-04-08
Videos by Gretchen Quarterman for WWALS Watershed Coalition (WWALS),
IHOP, Adel, Cook County County, Georgia.
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Continue reading 
Alapaha River Water Trail Committee Chair Chris Graham
went with a few friends down the middle section of this Blueway:
Which is roughly 12 river miles. It was amazing epic river trip. Continue reading
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Withlacoochee and Little River Water Trail Committee members wanted by WWALS Watershed Coalition
Hahira, June 23rd 2015 –
WWALS Watershed Coalition is pleased to announce the formation of the
Withlacoochee River Water Trail (WRWT) Committee.
With the Alapaha
River Water Trail well on its way to completion, WWALS is ready to
take on the Withlacoochee and Little Rivers. We are looking for
people to take an active part in developing a recreational water
trail for all to enjoy.
Chris Graham, Chair of the Alapaha River Water Trail, said:
“I feel I have accomplished a good deal in our area. Now that the Alapaha River Water Trail brochures are printed and WWALS is starting on the Withlacoochee River Water Trail, I feel it is time for someone in the Little River or Withlacoochee River watersheds to have an option to join the WWALS board to do something good for their river.”
WWALS has already started mapping and gathering information for the Withlacoochee River Water Trail,
/maps/withlacoochee-river-water-trail/
WWALS co-sponsors the “Big Little River Paddle Race” at Reed-Bingham State Park each spring on the Little River, a tributary of the Withlacoochee River. There is the potential for another paddle race on the Withlacoochee in the fall, and we’re looking for ideas for where and who wants to help.
Some of the benefits of a water trail include:
Continue readingWe just added another member to this committee, and we’re looking for more (see press release, for multiple committees, and for the WWALS board. If interested, please fill out the application form.
Withlacoochee River Water Trail Committee
Meeting Agenda
7:30 PM, Monday, 22 June 2015
by telephone
Contact Committee Chair Chris Mericle for details
mericle@gmail.com, 386-855-5096 cell, 386-938-5943 home
- Review Proposal that was accepted by the WWALS Executive Board for this new committee.
Create a working document from the proposal: a blueprint for the water trail- Discuss the water trail name:
- Withlacoochee and Little River Water Trail
- or Withlacoochee River Water Trail
- or something else?
- Review material on the WRWT web page (to be continued in further meetings)
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Board and Committee members sought by WWALS Watershed Coalition, a WATERKEEPER® Affiliate
Hahira, June 20th, 2015 — From paddle races to opposing
pipelines to building water trails for recreation,
landowner protection, and economy, local nonprofit WWALS Watershed Coalition
seeks additional members, committee members, and board members to
extend advocacy for the watersheds of the Withlacoochee,
Willacoochee, Alapaha, and Little Rivers. Applications are now being
accepted online for committee and board members to be elected at the
July 8th Annual Meeting in Adel, Georgia, and anyone can pay for a
membership at any time.
WWALS Secretary Garry Gentry of Tifton said:
“I have been involved with WWALS since almost the beginning and common sense says we need clean water and good stewardship of our planet to leave as a legacy for the next generation.”
Last month thirty people paddled and won prizes Continue reading
Pope Francis makes a religious, ethical, humane, scientific, and practical case for stewardship of this earth and its waters, with moral and ethical bases for “the choices which determine our behaviour”. His case does not require any reader to be Catholic or Christian, as the Pope integrates his faith with the science of an integral ecology. You don’t have to agree with everything he wrote (I don’t) to agree with the gist of it, in the words of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.:
“all life is interrelated”
Pope Francis’ letter to the world is long but well worth reading in full, and these excerpts I hope will encourage everyone to do that.
ENCYCLICAL LETTER LAUDATO SI’ OF THE HOLY FATHER FRANCIS ON CARE FOR OUR COMMON HOME, 18 June 2015, Vatican City. Continue reading
Boating not prudent.
