Day: January 25, 2018

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Volunteers Needed For Birmingham Park Workday To Improve Trails

Posted on by Milton Coalition

January 25, 2018

20140716040335-f81f-birmingham_parkDear Friends and Neighbors:

Your support is needed for a volunteer effort to help clean up Birmingham Park (750 Hictory Flat Road).  A work day has been scheduled for February 3rd (Saturday) from 10 am to 2 pm.  The emphasis is on clearing the paths for hikers and horse riders.  Some volunteers that maintain Garland Mountain’s trails will be on-hand to help and to advise us.  We need additional local volunteers to help with this effort.

We also need equipment.  Following is a list of tools that are needed.  If you have such tools and are willing to loan them to the effort, please bring them with you.  Gas-powered equipment is preferred; battery-operated electric equipment would be acceptable; please bring extra batteries, if you have them.

    • Power saws
    • Hedge trimmers
    • Hand pole saws

If you own safety gear (e.g., gloves, safety glasses, hard hats), please bring that gear.  Snacks and refreshments will be provided.

Please consider contributing to this worthwhile effort.  There are plenty of opportunities to help regardless of your skill level—e.g., spotters for clearing teams, manual labor to deposit trimmings in the woods, etc.  At over 200 acres, Birmingham Park is a treasure to our hiking and equestrian communities and to citizens that generally enjoy nature.  Unfortunately, the City has not had the resources to properly maintain the trails, requiring a volunteer effort to clear the trails to make them more usable for citizens.

The primary point of contact for this effort is Larry Covington.  He can be reached at Larry.Covington@ymail.com or at 770-826-6288.  Please email Larry if you would like for volunteer for this worthwhile effort; we would like to get a good estimate of the number of volunteers.  However, if you cannot commit at this point, we certainly will welcome last-minute, walk-on volunteers.

Please forward this information to others that might be interested in helping.  This might include hiking/equestrian organizations and school environmental/equestrian/agricultural clubs.

Thank you.