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Ozark Society Members … and All Others interested,

It’s September. Autumn, I know it doesn’t feel like it. As Tom Perry mentioned, our meetings will begin again on the 4th Tuesday of each month. We have a great one lined up to kick off the Fall season of Highlands Chapter meetings for those of you that love the outdoors, and most of us do. Emmie Brenzel, who has led sessions at the Ozark Botanical Gardens, will speak on Forest Therapy, sometimes called forest bathing.

Emmie, a Nature and Forest Therapy Guide, will give us insight into the history, the science and health benefits of forest therapy. We Ozark Society members have been in forests, but a deeper connection is possible.

Please join us! Bring a friend. We’d love to see you, and if time allows, we will go outside for a guided invitation among the tall trees at the church.

WHEN:

Tuesday, September27, 2022

6:30-7:00 pm social time

7:00 pm announcements

Guest Speaker immediately following announcements

WHERE:

First United Presbyterian Church

Witherspoon Hall – back parking area

695 E. Calvin Street

Fayetteville, AR 72703

SPEAKER:

Emmie (M.E.) Brenzel

Nature and Forest Therapy Guide

If you would like to bring a snack for the social time, please get in touch with Chris Kline.

                phone: (479) 409-0394

                email: ckline901@gmail.com

Feel free to call me if you have questions. If you want to respond to me from this announcement, please use “REPLY”, not “REPLY ALL”. We have over 200 members in the Highlands Chapter of the OS. We’d love to see many of you at our meetings. If you have interests that you’d like to have a program about, please let me know.

Hope to see you at this meeting and out on the trails,

Peggy Bulla

OSHC Vice-Chair

(479) 586-2493

We are back at Second Presbyterian for October’s meeting. Our guest will be
Randy Palculict on the cultural significance of marker trees. What’s a Marker Tree? Come find out. Then see what’s going on with conservation issues as well as what outings are coming up.

Stewart will lead us on a weekend float somewhere on the Buffalo. The stretch to be determined by the river level. We will float for a few miles on Saturday and then make camp on a gravel bar for the night. Bring your own supplies. We will meet at Morgan McDonald’s at 7:30 am.  Check back with this site for final info about where and when we will launch, if joining us at the river Saturday morning.

Meetings are held on the third Tuesday of each month (except December).   Program starts at 6:30 pm and business meeting follows.  Plan to join us after the meeting for pizza and socializing.

Now is the time to make plans to attend the Fall General Membership Meeting that will be held in-person this year.  YEA!

The Bayou Chapter will host this get-together for all Ozark Society members at beautiful Lake Claiborne State Park, near Homer, Louisiana.  This is the same location as the 2018 Fall Meeting and we’re hoping that many members show up to enjoy fun activities and fellowship with other Ozark Society members.

Attendance by all Ozark Society members is encouraged – this is the meeting where officers are elected for the next two years.  Some key officers are retiring this year, so putting new officers in place will allow the Ozark Society to thrive into the future.  Plus, it’s a chance to meet members in other chapters and renew longtime friendships with chapter members who you don’t see very often.  There will be a $10 per person registration fee which will include a Saturday morning ham, egg and biscuit breakfast and a commemorative bandana.

Accommodations:

The park offers 10 glamping sites – which are tents already set up on wooden platforms, plus 10 premium campsites, 67 improved campsites, 2 unimproved campsites and a primitive camping area.  There are also 10 cabins that each sleep up to 8 people.

A big plus for this park is that anyone over the age of 62 gets free admittance to the park!

Please contact the park soon to make your reservations  1-318-927-2976

Schedule of events

Oct 21 – Friday

Arrive and set up camp

6:00 pm – 9:00 pm – Board meeting – location TBA

Oct 22 – Saturday – Visitor Center

8:00 am – until – Registration for all attendees

8:00 am – 9:00 am – Breakfast – supplied by the Bayou Chapter

9:00 am – 10:30 am – General Membership meeting

10:30 am – noon – guest speaker on climate change

Noon – 1:00 pm – lunch on your own

1:00 pm – activities

Demonstration on making boudin by Tammy & David Jernigan

Hikes/bikes on park trails – leaders TBA

Paddling on Lake Claiborne – leaders TBA

Orienteering – Jenny & Gary Hackman

Dutch oven competition – (judges may be willing to accept bribes)

5:00 pm – pot luck dinner – including gumbo by Marian Howard

6:30 pm –  9:00  Southern entertainment – TBA

Oct 23 – Sunday

8:00 am – breakfast available – location TBA

Pack up and leave for home

Safe travels and looking forward to seeing you in October!

If you have any questions of need additional information, please contact Sandy Roerig sandra.roerig@lsuhs.edu or Marian Howard marianehoward@comcast.net

We will gather at the Ozark Campground on the Buffalo north of Jasper for a car camp. Some of us will come up Friday night, the rest on Saturday. Town is 10 minutes away, so you don’t have to cook if you don’t want to. There are two planned day hikes on the BRT. The 1st from Ozark to Pruitt (2.6 m) and then the Mill Creek Loop (1.5 m) on Sat. at 10.  On Sunday we will hike from Ponca to Steel Creek (2.6 m) If you just want to hang out in camp, that’s fine too! Come have some fun and fellowship.

We are meeting a week later this month and at the Ron Robinson at the Downtown Library.  Our guest speaker is Arlen Laan, who has hiked all 11 national scenic trails in the US. She will show us the beauty of all these trails and give jus her view of them all. Arlen lives in Massachusetts and is an outings leader and trainer. She will be hiking Ouachita Trail before meeting. The show begins at 6

Also, find out what’s new in conservation action and learn what outings are taking place this month

The best stretch of trail on the river!(IMHO). We will meet at Morgan McDonalds at 7:30 to carpool up to the Hwy. 14 Canoe launch. You will need good shoes, a lunch and water. The majority of the hike is on a bluff overlooking the river. If time permits, we may visit Gravity Brewery in Big Flat.

Meetings are held on the third Tuesday of each month (except December).   Program starts at 6:30 pm and business meeting follows.  Plan to join us after the meeting for pizza and socializing.

It’s our Christmas Pot Luck meeting. Location to be announced. Bring a dish to share as we celebrate the holidays. Find out about December outings and what’s hot on the conservation front.

Time to visit one of our favorite areas, Flatside Wilderness. We may take a short hike to the top of Flatside before we head down trail to Crystal Prong and the area beyond. Bring a good pair of shoes and lunch. Meet at the Walmart at Chenal and Hwy. 10, near the Garden area at 8 am.

Meetings are held on the third Tuesday of each month (except December).   Program starts at 6:30 pm and business meeting follows.  Plan to join us after the meeting for pizza and socializing.

We are back at Second Presbyterian to start the new year. The speaker has yet to be announced. Learn what’s happening in conservation activities and what outings are coming up.

This is our third year for the “New Year’s U Pick It” day hike. We will drive up to Petit Jean and then pick which trail or trails we hike. What will it be? Cedar Falls? Bear Den? 7 Hollows? Boy Scout? Come along and find out. We will eat lunch at Mather Lodge when we are done. Be at the Morgan McDonald’s at 8 or Mather Lodge at 9:15.

Meetings are held on the third Tuesday of each month (except December).   Program starts at 6:30 pm and business meeting follows.  Plan to join us after the meeting for pizza and socializing.

We are at Second Presbyterian this month. Our speaker has yet to be named. Find out what we are doing in the conservation field in Arkansas and see what outing is coming up.

Meetings are held on the third Tuesday of each month (except December).   Program starts at 6:30 pm and business meeting follows.  Plan to join us after the meeting for pizza and socializing.

We are at Second Presbyterian again this month. Our speaker has yet to be named. Catch up on environmental issues, as well as what outings are coming up.

Meetings are held on the third Tuesday of each month (except December).   Program starts at 6:30 pm and business meeting follows.  Plan to join us after the meeting for pizza and socializing.

We are at Second Presbyterian this month. Our speaker has yet to be named. Find out the latest in Ozark Society activity and conservation issues in the state. See where the outing for this month is going.

Meetings are held on the third Tuesday of each month (except December).   Program starts at 6:30 pm and business meeting follows.  Plan to join us after the meeting for pizza and socializing.