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Protect Our Waters! Non-Profit Organization US Postage PAID Permit #217 Asheville, NC Suite 610 29 N Market Street Asheville NC 28801 Phone: (828) 258-8737 Protecting Western North Carolinaʼs Mountains, Rivers, and Forests Issue 86 Volume XXVII Number 1 ● SPRING 2010 Fax: (828) 258-9141 www.wnca.org Meetings & Task Forces Western Office: 16 Stewart Street Protect Our Waters! Franklin NC 28734 Phone: (828) 524-3899 ●CHAPTER MEETINGS● By Hartwell Carson Fax: (828) 349-1549 Buncombe County Chapter In 1966, the Hudson River north of New York City was so polluted that Third Thursday; 6:30 pm at the main office commercial fishermen couldn’t sell the shad and striped bass that they Contact (585) 944-9574; caught because tasted like diesel fuel. The river’s pollution imperiled [email protected] their livelihood. Instead of giving in, these fishermen formed the first Haywood Community Alliance Riverkeeper organization and channeled their anger into the Contact (828) 258-8737; enforcement of environmental laws to protect the river. Their efforts [email protected] spawned a national movement that led Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to establish the Waterkeeper Alliance, now an international non-profit that STAFF Macon County Chapter SAVE THE DATE! Contact (828) 524-2280; licenses Riverkeepers on over 190 waterways around the world. Julie Mayfield Executive Director [email protected] Bob Gale Ecologist Today, Waterkeepers patrol more than 100,000 miles of rivers, streams Ryan Griffith Community Outreach Save Madison Chapter Manager Contact (828) 778-1286; and coastlines in the Americas, Europe, Australia, Asia, and Africa. Part French Broad Riverkeeper Kick-off Party [email protected] Hartwell Carson French Broad Riverkeeper Before Michael Franti at the Orange Peel scientist, teacher and legal advocate, Waterkeepers combine firsthand Elle Henderson AmeriCorps/VISTA May 24 Watauga River Conservation knowledge of their waterways with an unwavering commitment to the Volunteer Partners (Avery, Ashe, and Watauga rights of their communities and the power of the law. Whether on the Counties) water, in a classroom or in a courtroom, Waterkeepers speak for the Save the French Broad Paddle Trip Contact (828) 264-3061; waters they defend – with the backing of citizens and the collective strength of Waterkeeper Alliance. [email protected] STEERING COMMITTEE June 18-28 The French Broad River watershed has been fortunate to have a Riverkeeper for the last nine years Phillip Gibson Chair Tusquittee Chapter (Cherokee, Clay, and Graham Counties) Linda Tatsapaugh First Vice-Chair Snorkeling Trip in the Little Tennessee River who has helped make this ancient, scenic river healthier by monitoring and protecting it from its Contact (828) 835-8473; biggest pollutant, sediment. The Riverkeeper has played a leading role in advocating for improved Tim Malone Second Vice-Chair August 14 [email protected] Greg Kidd Secretary stormwater and erosion control regulations, restoring over three miles of stream, training contractors Edward Pritchett Treasurer WNCA Annual Meeting at the SEE Expo Tuckaseegee Community Alliance and installing numerous measures to prevent polluted runoff from entering the river. The Riverkeeper (Jackson County) also created Muddy Water Watch, a citizen monitoring campaign to reduce sediment pollution, and Bill Crawford Macon County Chapter August 21 Tom Lowe Haywood Community Alliance Contact (828) 506-9163; educated thousands of children and citizens throughout the watershed on how to keep our streams [email protected] Matt Raker Buncombe County Chapter and rivers clean. Steven Rice Macon County At-Large A Swain County Chapter is Stan Schnitzer Buncombe County At-Large forming! The Waterkeeper Alliance recently approved a move by the French Broad Riverkeeper to WNCA, a Aurelia Stone Tusquittee Chapter Join WNCA Now! Contact (828) 777-4683; partnership that will strengthen water quality advocacy throughout Western North Carolina. The Julie White Forest Task Force [email protected] if you are Riverkeeper will continue its focus on sediment pollution and expand its focus to other pollution Membership levels: MAJOR DONOR: interested in joining! ___$30 Individual ___$250 sources, including coal ash, hazardous waste sites, bacteria pollution from sewage and animal waste, ___$50 Household ___$500 ●TASK FORCES● industrial point sources and pharmaceutical waste from 2010 MAJOR SUPPORTERS ___$60 Supporting/Business ___$1000 improperly disposed of pills and medicines. Appalachian Trail Conservancy ___$100 Sponsoring $_____Other Amount Forest Task Force Brad Stanback and Shelli Lodge-Stanback Last Tuesday at 4:30 pm at the main With the new Waterkeeper Alliance-WNCA NAME:__________________________________________________________ office Community Foundation of Western North partnership, you can be assured that the entire French (IF PAYING BY CREDIT CARD, PLEASE GIVE THE NAME AS WRITTEN ON THE CARD) Contact Bob (828) 258-8737; Carolina [email protected] Broad River watershed will continue to have a full-time Estate of Claude and Maxilla Evans ADDRESS: ____________________________ CITY/ZIP:___________________ protector and defender for years to come. To kick off Liberty National Public Parks Task Force EMAIL:_______________________________________________ Contact Bob at (828) 258-8737; WNCA’s Riverkeeper program, we will take an 11-day Clear Channel Asheville and its Family of “Save the French Broad” paddle trip down the entire Stations (USING EMAIL SAVES TREES AND OTHER RESOURCES-PLEASE INCLUDE IT!) [email protected] length of the river at the end of June. We invite PHONE:________________________________ COUNTY:__________________ ●COMMITTEE MEETINGS● everyone to join us and camp along the riverbanks to Steering Committee learn about the gifts of and challenges facing this ☐VISA ☐ MASTERCARD __________________________________________ 1st Wednesday of every other month majestic river. We will also be conducting regular Contact Ryan at (828) 258-8737; WNCA welcomes Hartwell Carson as the EXPIRATION DATE:___/____ SIGNATURE _______________________________ monitoring trips to assess various impaired streams [email protected] throughout the watershed. Visit www.wnca.org for more French Broad Riverkeeper. Clip and mail to: WNCA, Suite 610, 29 N Market St, Asheville, NC 28801 information on our programs and the paddle trip. www.wnca.org We look forward to seeing you on the river! ■ WNCA ● 2 Protecting Western North Carolinaʼs mountains, rivers, and forests WNCA ● 3 Protecting Western North Carolinaʼs mountains, rivers, and forests What it Means What is Blue Ridge Blueprints? to be Resilient From the Executive Director By Julie Mayfield By Ryan Griffith In 2009, WNCA and the Asheville Design Center (ADC) partnered to create a new program called By Julie Mayfield Imagine waking up one day to a world Blue Ridge Blueprints, a community-driven planning program that helps communities plan for and Greetings to our members and friends! I am pleased to design their future while preserving local character and protecting natural resources. WNCA without oil. What would be different for announce that we have returned to our quarterly print you and your family? Your neighbors? provides overall project management and leads the community through a visioning and goal-setting Your community? How would you version of Accent! We will continue our monthly e-Accent, Forest article continued from pg 2 process, while ADC’s team of volunteer architects, planners, landscape architects, and designers address food security and the challenges and you should look to it for news and events. Accent, Also, there are opportunities to address new gives shape and definition to that vision. we face without the use of cheap, however, will give you a more in-depth understanding of issues, such as additional National Scenic abundant energy? Communities all over our work to protect and defend the mountains, rivers, and Areas, further limits to road building, Blue Ridge Blueprints provides the region with a powerful combination of grassroots organizing, western North Carolina are awakening forests of Western North Carolina. increased riparian protection, and resilience community empowerment, and professional design services. The cornerstone of this program is the collectively with these questions and are of forest communities to climate change. engagement of local citizens in planning for their own communities. Why did we start this program? coming together to “transition” their Because over the last 20 years, Western North Carolina has experienced rapid and unplanned Within this issue, please take particular note of the outings The Nantahala/Pisgah management plan localities from non-renewable resources development to meet the demands of a 23% population increase and a booming second home and events planned for this year. We start with an 11 day paddle trip down the French Broad revision is years overdue (plans normally toward a more sustainable future. River in June, then host a snorkel trip on the Little Tennessee River in August, and end with have a 10-year lifespan) and will have to market. While this growth is beneficial in many ways, it can also have negative impacts on the The Transition Town movement was another exciting performance by Lee Stetson as John Muir in October. There are more wait until the NFMA rule is finalized. mountain landscape, farmland, water resources, and founded in 2005 in the United Kingdom events in between, so keep your eyes open and come join us! Nevertheless, this delay provides
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