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Hike Report and Photos added 
Hike report and photos from June 25th Day
Hike at Morris Bridge Wilderness Park have been added.
See Hike/Trip reports and Photo gallery. |
Hillsborough
County's regional parks are in jeopardy of closing.
Due to the 140 million dollar Hillsborough
County budget cut, the Hillsborough County Regional Parks are in
serious jeopardy of closing. Click HERE
to read a letter intended to update and familiarize the taxpayers
of Hillsborough County and the users of the regional parks with
what is happening.
Parks on the closure list include:
The Wilderness Park - Dead River & Flatwoods parks
Lettuce Lake Park
and several more! |
Congratulations
to our 2009 Florida Trail Annual Award Recipients.
25-Year Anniversary Awards were earned by
the following Suncoast Chapter members:
June Durham
Burt Golub
Marjorie Golub
Ronald Homan
Pat Hutto |
Temporarily trail closure.
Hiking Trails at Little Manatee River State
Park are temporarily closed due to wild dogs in the area. |
Get
your Suncoast T-Shirt!
Click HERE
for an order form.
Click HERE
for available color combinations. |
Burn
Ban lifted for Citrus, Hernando and Pasco counties & all SWFWMD
properties.
A list of web resources for additional information
can be found on our Links page. |
Please
excuse the mess!
You may notice some oddities with the website.
They are being worked on.
It's an improvement gone bad!! Please overlook mild formatting errors.
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let me know .
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you are using. |
Missing
Hiker
The family of a hiker who started hiking on
the Florida Trail in November is looking for him. The Walton County
Sheriff's office is looking for Jonathan Tew who started hiking
on the Florida Trail heading east from Eglin in November 2008. Tew
is a 53 year old white male from Lake Wales. If you know anything
about this man, please contact Kent Wimmer (kwimmer@fs.fed.us) so
he can pass the info onto the authorities. |
Photos
from Joe Spooner's ClamBake at Werner-Boyce
Open Iris'
Picasa web album (opens in new window).
Thanks to Iris for sharing the great pictures. |
Remember
to report your volunteer/work hours.
The deadline to report volunteer hours is
the 10th of each month.
Volunteer Hour Reporting
Guidelines
Top 10 Suncoast Chapter Volunteer Hours
for 2008
Member
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Hours Reported |
Mitch Almon
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590 |
| Tom Hogan |
420 |
| Neil Fox |
404.5 |
| Ted Youngblood |
375 |
| Ralph Hancock |
328 |
| Joe Spooner |
282 |
| Linda Dawson |
264 |
| Skip Neill |
225 |
| Jan Meeks |
182 |
| Lisa Alspaugh |
161 |
Complete summaries for 2007 & 2008 are
available on the Volunteer Hours page. |
| VOLUNTEERS NEEDED |
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If you have time to volunteer a few hours a month, please consider
one of the Trail Leader
positions which need filling. |
