The Clarion
Volume 72, Issue 1
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August 23, 2006
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BC students participate in ‘Move a Mountain Day’
by Zach Browning
Sports Editor
More than 300 Brevard Col
lege students, faculty and staff
volunteered throughout the
community in this year’s “Move
A Mountain Day” on Monday,
August 21.
Fence building in Pisgah photo by John Billingsley
In the Pisgah National For
est, students teamed up with the
Pisgah Forest Chapter of Trout
Unlimited in an effort to reduce
erosion on the banks of the
Davidson River
Under the leadership of Dr.
Janie Sue Brooks, 23 students
came out to help members of
Trout Unlimited construct
close to 800 feet of locust post
fence along the banks of the
river at the popular Sycamore
Flats picnic area.
Sycamore Flats has been
undergoing several improve
ments this past summer, some
of which include new bath
room facilities and a redi
rected stream with public ac
cess points. The fence line
the students were helping to
build will discourage guests
from walking down the banks,
which creates a serious prob
lem with silt in the river.
Trout Unlimited rated the
Davidson River as one of the
top 100 trout streams in the
country, and the members of the
Pisgah Forest Chapter hope to
keep it that way, says member
Skip Sheldon.
“The biggest problem in the
river is from silt,” Sheldon said.
“People carelessly walk down
the banks anywhere they can
get in. This makes the banks be
come unstable and after a few
summer thunderstorms, the bank
is washed away, as well as all the
silt. This means trouble for in
sects and fish in the stream.”
Sycamore Flats isn’t the
only place in the forest where
Trout Unlimited has built fences.
“We’ve done a number of
places up and down the river
with remarkable success,”
Sheldon said. “We’re not trying
to keep people out of the river,
we just want to direct them to
areas designated for that pur
pose.”
The BC students worked
hard and were a valuable asset
in the construction of the fence,
Sheldon said.
This experience also helped
students to become more famil
iar with one another. Dr Brooks
says.
“This is the first significant
time they have spent together,”
Brooks said. “Taking students
from all over and having them
work together is a way to form
them as a whole.”
Inside:
Arts & Life 6
Comics 5
IVIusic Review 6
News 2
Opinion 4
Presidential Posts 4
Sports 8
Student Spotlight 7