BUCKEYE TRAIL ASSOCIATION FOUNDED 1959 SPRING 2019 VOLUME 51 NO. 5 www.buckeyetrail.org BTA Trailblazer Spring 2019 1 IN THIS Issue… 3 Buckeye Trail Inventory 14 Silas Chamberlain, On the Trail 4 President's Message 15 Buckeye TrailFest 2019 6 On the Trail 16 Jack Watkins Memorial 8 Buckeye Trail Member Honored 17 2019 Schedule of Hikes and Events by The Ohio Parks and Recreation 20 Biodiversity on the Buckeye Trail: Association Erupting Ephemerals! 10 The Florida Trail 21 The Volunteer Corner 11 BTA Funds Report 22 Hiker on the Go #5 & Map Trailblazer 12 2019 MLK Hike at Hueston Woods 24 New Member Form Published Quarterly by the State Park Buckeye Trail Association, Inc. P.O. Box 5 Shawnee, Ohio 43782 740-394-2008 Circulation: 1,200 Kristen Vandervaart Production & Editing DEADLINES Deadlines for submission are February 1 for the Spring issue, May 1 for the Summer issue, August 1 for the Fall issue, and November 1 for the Winter issue. SUBMISSIONS
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