EGN Week 2012 Name of Geopark: .............Fforest Fawr Geopark.................................................................... Dates of geoparks week: .23 May – 10 June............................................................ Contact person: ...Alan [email protected]................................................................................... Motto of geoparks week:.......Festival 2012..................................................... Category Date Activity / Event dd.mm. 1. Geo & Geo - 26 May - Carreg Cennen Roundabout – a 11 km walk exploring a rocky landscape - 27 May - From Cwm to Cwm- an 8 km walk focusing on the landsacape - 27 May - 3. Geo & Education - 27 May - Brynaman Field Study Visit – a 4km walk introducing geology landscape and flora - 28 May - Limestone and Landscapes – a talk involving geology and industrial and cultural history - 29 May - White Water and Black Powder – a 3km walk focusing on landscape and industrial history - 29 May - Fault Folds and Firebricks – a 4 km walk focuses on the relationship between tectonics, geology and industrial history - 29 May - Dry stone walling and geology- a talk about dry stone walls, an important feature in the geopark - 30 May -Walk, talk and possibly lunch – a 4 km trail exploring the intangible heritage of Mynydd Illtud -30 May - Bountiful Bogs and Marvellous Mires – a 4 km walk explores the wildlife in a glacially -30 May - Geodiversity and geological sites – a talk concerning geoconservation in the geopark sculpted landscape - 31 May -Tropical Seas, Dusty Deserts and Grinding Glaciers – a talk about the geological history of the geopark -Cairns and Ferns on Cefn Cil-sanws – a 9 km walk exploring archaeology, palaeontology and Flora - 4 June -Llwch Lively- a 8 km walk to view the life in a lake, the legacy of the Ice Age - 5 June - Fossils, Ferns and Faults at Henrhyd Falls – a 3 km walk introducig the geology and history of - 6 June a wooded gorge - Romans to Railways – a 5 km walk focusing on cultural and industrial history -8 June - Cwm Gwrelych Geo Heritage Trail: walking back in time – a 5 km walk focuses on climate change in the Carboniferous. - 10 June -Limelights of Allt Rhongyr – a 4.5 km walk focusing on botany, geology and zoology - Mynydd Myddfai Field Study Visit -a 5 km walk examines the restoration of the landscape following the construction of a gas pipeline Bronze Age sacred mountain - the cairns of Mynydd-y-glog- a 5 km walk to look at the way in -18 July which prehistoric people used the landscape and its geology in planning their monuments. 4. Geo & EGN/GGN - 23 May -Myddfai & the Geopark -a talk introducing the EGN and showing how activities in and around the Myddfai community contribute to Fforest Fawr Geopark and to the aims of the - 6 June geopark concept - Penderyn and the Geopark - a talk introducing the EGN and showing how activities in and around the Penderyn community contribute to Fforest Fawr Geopark and to the aims of the of the geopark concept .