WWALS Treasurer Gretchen Quarterman invited everyone to discuss river etiquette
and private property and to see the prizes awarded to the high school logo contest winners at the
Alapaha River Water Trail Conference tomorrow,
and to go on the
river outing afterwards.
She spoke in Citizens Wishing to Be Heard at the Regular Session, Lowndes County Commission (LCC), Valdosta, Lowndes County, Georgia, 10 March 2015.
Here’s the video:
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The Tifton Gazette today printed
the WWALS PR about the logo contest
and the conference tomorrow.
Winners will be announced, prizes awarded, and the winninglogos unveiled at the
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Saw: tupelo, cypress, maple, river birch, pine, live oak, titi, mayhaw, native blueberries, palmetto; only maple in bloom. Not much wildlife.
River: several small streams entered river through breaks in the bank, winding course, couple of bluffs and some exposed karst
Comments: a good level to run this section, saw 2 other canoes with a family of campers, and a fisherman in a john boat skinning a catfish, 2 rope swings, the side trip up the Alapahoochee River to the waterfall just up from the take out was worth the effort.
Pictures: see separate post by Bret Wagenhorst. And pictures by John S. Quarterman.
Ten of us met at 12 noon Sunday afternoon, February 15th 2015, continuing our exploration of the Alapaha River Water Trail, as announced.
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Here’s the
outing announcement,
here is Bret’s summary of the outing, and below are Bret’s pictures. Continue reading
4PM Saturday March 14th
at GA 135 in Berrien County near Willacoochee:
paddle upstream on the Alapaha River and float back.
The river will be higher than pictured here.
All are welcome, boats are available! facebook event.
This is immediately following the WWALS Alapaha River Water Trail Conference being held at the Gaskins Forestry Education Center near Alapaha, GA from 1-4 p.m. Come see the high school student logo contest winners for the Water Trail, and then paddle on the Trail!
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Plus Chris Mericle has joined the WWALS Board, the board now meets quarterly, and much of the work is done through Committees, but the big addition is a map and access points for the Alapaha River Water Trail. Here’s PDF for printing, and images are below, all thanks to Karan Rawlins.
Update: 2015-06-08: See the new Alapaha River Water Trail Brochure, Map, and Card all in one!
A surprising number of the Board’s nine goals for 2014 have been accomplished, and some new ones have already been added. What goals should WWALS have for 2015?
Goals accomplished include
becoming an
IRS 501(c)(3)
and raising money for and purchasing
insurance.
Some we’ve been doing right along:
cleanups, including Rivers Alive.
Some are so much the core of what WWALS does that we
didn’t even list them as goals, but we’ve been doing them anyway:
monthly outings
and
indoor events.
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WWALS is most appreciative of this letter of support (PDF). -jsq
Valdosta-Lowndes
DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY
January 21, 2015
Mr. John Quarterman, President
WWALS Watershed Coalition, Inc.
3338 Country Club Road #L336
Valdosta, GA 31605Dear Mr. Quarterman;
The Valdosta-Lowndes County Development Authority works diligently with our existing companies and prospective companies looking to relocate to Valdosta, Georgia. There are several components that are part of this process and one of those is quality of life. Communities that have a wide variety of activities, arts and entertainment and outdoor recreation do better in the selection process as opposed to those that are limited.
The Valdosta-Lowndes County Development Authority understands that Continue reading
Update 2015-03-10: Prizes to high school logo contest winners Saturday at Alapaha River Water Trail Conference.
Florida noticed the ARWT logo contest.
Joyce Marie Taylor, Jasper News, 19 January 2015,
HamCo: High school student logo contest for Alapaha River Water Trail by WWALS,
HCHS [Hamilton County High School] invited to participate
Valdosta, Ga.— Willacoochee, Withlacoochee, Alapaha, Little River System (WWALS) is excited to announce a contest among high school students in Echols, Lanier, Lowndes, Berrien, Atkinson, and Tift Counties in Georgia, and Hamilton County, Fla. to design a logo for the Alapaha River Water Trail. The logo will be used on the Water Trail website, on promotional brochures, and on information at access points along the river that will be posted on kiosks.
Our judges for the contest include:
The rest is verbatim from The WWALS press release of 14 January 2015.
-jsq
Planning for the
Alapaha River Water Trail, we need to put
river etiquette guilelines in brochures, on kiosks, on the web, etc.
What should we include?
Here are some possibilities.
Update 2016-02-21: Here’s what we put in the ARWT Brochure, Safety and Etiquette.
The latest of the old brochures from the 1970s contained these six items:
Georgia River Network’s Water Trails website has this ten-point version: Continue reading
