[Green] Sierra Club/Wayne National Forest opportunity

Tue Aug 13 19:26:56 CDT 2019

Thanks for asking, Rebecca.

Definitely avoid Labor Day weekend and  the weekend of Stern wheel Festival.

Is the FUUSM Board planning a "committee recharge for September? 

---- Rebecca Phillips via Green <green at fuusm.org> wrote: 
> Do we have an answer for Becca? Our usual Social Justice Sunday falls on September 1, which is both Labor Day weekend and the county fair--not likely good times for attendance.
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> What might be other good dates if we want to host an event. The 8th is Sternwheel Festival, which also inteferes with attendance at other sorts of events.
> 
> Rebecca
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> "If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need."-- Cicero
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> From: Rebecca Phillips <bennphil at hotmail.com>
> Sent: Saturday, August 3, 2019 9:08 PM
> To: green at fuusm.org <green at fuusm.org>
> Subject: Fw: Sierra Club/Wayne National Forest opportunity
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> Hello, all,
> 
> This is a long message thread, but the gist is that the SIerra CLub would like to hold a community dialogue regarding its Our Wild America Campaign  pilot program on leasing public lands. Becca Pollard has asked if we might be willing to host a dialogue sometime in August or September. One thought: do we have a topic for Social Justice Sunday in September? Or would Labor Day weekend interfere too much?
> 
> Rebecca
> 
> "If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need."-- Cicero
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> From: Rebecca Phillips <rphilli5 at wvup.edu>
> Sent: Saturday, August 3, 2019 9:00 PM
> To: bennphil at hotmail.com <bennphil at hotmail.com>
> Subject: Fwd: Sierra Club/Wayne National Forest opportunity
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> ---------- Forwarded message ---------
> From: Becca Pollard <becca.pollard at sierraclub.org<mailto:becca.pollard at sierraclub.org>>
> Date: Fri, Aug 2, 2019 at 11:08 AM
> Subject: Re: Sierra Club/Wayne National Forest opportunity
> To: Rebecca Phillips <rphilli5 at wvup.edu<mailto:rphilli5 at wvup.edu>>
> 
> 
> Hey Rebecca,
> We would like to hold a community dialogue focused on the Wayne in Marietta sometime in Aug or Sept. Would the GS be interested in hosting this?
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> On Wed, Jul 24, 2019 at 8:48 PM Becca Pollard <becca.pollard at sierraclub.org<mailto:becca.pollard at sierraclub.org>> wrote:
> Hey Rebecca,
> Sorry for the late reply!
> If anyone is interested there is a facilitation training webinar tomorrow evening at 7pm. Folks can register here: https://zoom.us/meeting/register/1b877e92cc62c88fd746f627e8486654 You can do the training even if you aren't ready to commit to facilitating a dialogue. I do hope we can do one in Marietta. It would be great if some folks from GS participated in a dialogue even if they don't have time to do a training or plan it.
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> Would love to hear more about what happens with the native plant plan! Sounds wonderful!
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> Our last bioblitz was mostly Columbus and Athens folks. Bonie had hoped to come, but was too busy with her beautiful mural for Belpre. Kurtis Decker planned to join us, but unfortunately had a collision with a deer on the way and had to go get his car fixed!  I keep hoping to get more Marietta area folks involved and maybe the community dialogue will help.
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> On Wed, Jul 17, 2019 at 4:28 PM Rebecca Phillips <rphilli5 at wvup.edu<mailto:rphilli5 at wvup.edu>> wrote:
> GS is organizing a sustainability forum to be held this winter. I will be gone, so I don't know where the planning is on that--will find out more on Sunday.
> 
> Spent this morning with a citizens' group looking at portions of the city riverbank in downtown, hoping to draft a plan for clearing out invasives, encouraging natives (we have INCREDIBLE plants growing on their own behind the post office and armory--along with a lot of nasties), educating the public, and developing a long-term maintenance plan.
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> Did any local KWW folks make the last bioblitz?
> 
> Rebecca
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> On Wed, Jul 17, 2019 at 1:31 PM Becca Pollard <becca.pollard at sierraclub.org<mailto:becca.pollard at sierraclub.org>> wrote:
> Hey Rebecca,
> The Sierra Club's Our Wild America Campaign is launching a pilot program on leasing on public lands and Cheryl Johncox and I were wondering if you would be interested in working with us on something in Marietta.
> 
> The program starts with training some people to facilitate community dialogues (these are listening sessions where facilitators provide prompts and take notes and participants take turns speaking and then the notes are used to come up with next steps), then holding some events and trainings including a community dialogue and an outdoor event.
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> The facilitation training will be a webinar. Attending the webinar does not mean you have to facilitate a training, but our hope is that we can get some local leaders from a few different communities to help with this.
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> I talked with some of our Keep Wayne Wild volunteers at the bioblitz over the weekend and they are interested.
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> The outdoor event for Marietta could be combined with  Keep Wayne Wild's next bioblitz, or we could come up with a different type of outdoor event that local people are interested in.
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> Would the Green Sanctuary be interested in hosting a community dialogue?
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> Let me know if you have questions! I have a follow up call tomorrow with Cheryl Johncox and Rachael Mandelbaum, the distributed organizer for Our Wild America who we're working with.
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> Becca Pollard
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> Ohio Associate Organizing Representative
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> Sierra Club, Beyond Coal
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> Rebecca Phillips
> Professor Emeritus
> West Virginia University at Parkersburg
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> Becca Pollard
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> Ohio Associate Organizing Representative
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> Sierra Club, Beyond Coal
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> Becca Pollard
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> Ohio Associate Organizing Representative
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> Sierra Club, Beyond Coal
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> Rebecca Phillips
> Professor Emeritus
> West Virginia University at Parkersburg

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