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for the July training, contact Tricia ○ ○ The next board meeting will be held at ○
Mynster at 515-5363 or Scott Bahan at ○ the Sahara West Library at 5:30 p.m. on ○ ○
515-5371. Tricia Mynster, BLM ○ ○ July 8. Committee and board reports are ○ by Tom Pfaendler
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due to the secretary no later than July 1. ○
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Volunteer Opportunties ○ ○ ○
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○ his month, Im taking you hiking
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on The SMYC Trail, the first of
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ont let the summer sun dull your ○ Teaching Project Tthree legs that make up the ten-
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volunteer spirit! Red Rock ○ mile Escarpment Base Trail. This short
DCanyon needs help year-round. ○ ○ he Mojave Max Project 2003 ○ ○ path also links the Lost Creek and Ice
Landscaping: The P.L.A.N.T. team ○ ○ is looking for volunteers to ○ ○ Box Canyon trails and can be accessed
needs gardeners to help with the Native ○ Tteach school children about ○
○ our threatened desert tortoise.You ○ from either of those parking lots.
Plant Nursery. Collect, plant and nurture ○ will be well trained to teach a specific ○
seeds; work in the early morning, first and ○ ○ lesson on eight separate days. You ○ ○ The first and most logical question
third Saturday, second and fourth Tues- ○ ○ must be available one day a week ○ ○ that you may ask is what does SMYC
day. Call Clara Hatz, 643-1296 and leave ○ during school hours this fall. ○ stand for? Six Million Years Coming?
○ ○ Several Miles Youll Cross? Theres no
a message. ○ The number of positions is lim- ○
Tortoise Habitat: Volunteers needed ○ ○ ited. ○ ○ handy interpretive sign to clue you in.
in the habitat teaching visitors about the ○ ○ Questions? Call me at 526-7773. ○ ○ Seven Mules Yodeling Coherently? Well
desert tortoise. Also includes some habi- ○ Cynthia Pfaendler ○ anyway, grab your hat and bottle of wa-
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tat planting, weeding watering, burrow ○ ○ ter, stretch out those calves and lets see
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maintenance and scat removal. Call Carol ○ ○ whats out there. From the Lost Creek
Snyder, 368-2820. ○ ○ ○ ○ parking lot, follow the trail about a tenth
Photo Contest: Ranger Gina Mele ○ ○ In Memoriam ○ ○ of a mile. Youll then see a little sign
needs volunteers NOW to assist with pub- ○ ○ directing you south onto the SMYC trail.
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licity for the next photo contest which will ○ riends member Hank ○ If you look at a trail map, the SMYC
be held in September. Call her at 515-5355. ○ ○ Berkowitz passed away on ○ ○ appears to be a quick little interconnect-
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F Thursday June 19, 2003 ○ ing route between two major areas of
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June Board Notes ○ ○ after surgery. ○ ○ interest. There cant be much to see on
Hank and his wife, Judy, joined ○
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○ such a short trail, right? Staircases Make
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Friends in 1994 and were honored as ○
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o A motion to accept the 2003-04 ○ Volunteers of the Year for 1996. ○ ○ You Climb? Six Minute Yucca Cooking?
Budget Proposal was unanimously ○ ○ Hank was an Army veteran of the ○ The path starts out very pleasantly, criss-
passed. The budget will be presented to ○ ○ Korean War. Electronics was his ○ ○ crossing Red Rock Wash with hundreds
the membership for a vote at the General ○ specialty. Until the new wand sys- ○ of carefully laid cobblestones, presum-
Meeting on August 23. ○ ○
○ tem arrived at the Visitor Center, Hank ○ ably done to keep the trail intact after
o A Friends Operational Hand- ○ ○
○ kept the old solid state wands going ○ flash flooding. Have I mentioned the
book, coordinated by Pat Williams, is ○ ○ staircases yet? The first of many
nearing completion and will replace the ○ with patience and a lot of solder. ○
○ Whether it was teaching kids about ○ handcrafted stone stairs are nestled here
Officer’s Handbook and the operational ○ ○
portion of the Volunteer Handbook. ○ ○ the desert tortoise, working on the Desk ○ among cholla, beavertail, pincushion and
o A conceptual proposal for the ○ or giving Red Rock tours to ○ ○ strawberry hedgehog cactus. These red
Speaker’s Bureau was approved by BLM. ○ ○ Elderhostel, he attacked every project ○ steps are really picturesque and just a
Volunteers will be solicited for a fall imple- ○ with enthusiasm and dedication. ○
○ prelude to the fantastic gardens that
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mentation. ○ Hank helped man the Fee Station, ○ await you during the next mile. The trail
o The goal of 400 memberships ○ ○ too. He had a kind word and a smile for ○ ○
for the current year, ending September 30, ○ everyone, no matter how well or how ○ climbs and dips and winds around dra-
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is well within sight. Reported volunteer ○ poorly he felt. ○ matic mountain foothills revealing
hours are up two percent year to date. ○ ○ Donations may be made to ○ ○ hidden vistas and surprise gardens that
Friends of Red Rock Canyon, at the re- ○ just spring up on you. Be sure to take a
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BLM Report: ○ quest of the family. ○ camera because youre going to see
o Ranger Scott Bahan and RRCIA ○ Your Friends will miss you indeed, ○ amazing things around every turn. About
naturalist Athena Sparks are working on Hank . . . . ○ ○
a “Strolling Docent” program for talks ○
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around the Visitor Center. ○ Boot Tracks, continued on p.5
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