Stewards of the White Oak River Basin Current Events

This Wednesday we need outboards like Jon Boats to come with chains saws to open up a canoe trail through a few scattered blown down trees across the White Oak River.

I will be at Haywood Landing at 8:30 to meet you. You can launch there and cruise upstream past the power lines and you will come to an area called Dixon Filed. It is about here you will encounter trees across the river. If you can open it up so you can get through with your motor boat that is all we need. Continue on like this up toward the lakes. I will leave to go to the White Oak River Campgrond on Route 17 and meet people there at 9:00.

Depending on how many we have and what equipment they are coming with we will go up stream and down stream from there. So we should meet those coming up from Haywood. Also, some of us will go up to Gibson Bridge and come down. Others will go up to Emmetts Lane bidge and go upstream one mile to the big cypress and back.

All of the above will count as "in kind" credit toward a Grant Jones County is sponsoring. This will allow all of the Grant money to go toward the section between Emmetts Lane and Gibson wihich is totally blocked by inumerable blown down trees and has been so since Floyd. That section is about 8 miles long.

If we are successful in all this we will have a continuous unobstructed canoe trail about 45 miles long on The White Oak River
from Hofmann Forest to the Atlintic Ocean. Elmer.

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Elmer, The White Oak River Trashman
Stewards of the White Oak River Basin
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