John Burroughs Association eNews

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The JBA eNews for the latest John Burroughs Association happenings, including the Slabsides restoration, Sanctuary Trail Work and special events.

The first phase of trail construction under a matching grant from NY State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation ended June 26. Work had begun on Earth Day in April, and over the next ten weeks more than sixty volunteers contributed over 550 hours. They cleared the trail corridor, built a stone pathway around and over unanticipated and immovable bedrock, moved rocks that tested the limits of their collective strength, built a 70-foot boardwalk through John Burroughs’s former celery swamp and finished off with a 55-step stone stairway. View the slideshow below of our volunteers at work.

Previous E-News stories:

Slabsides Restoration

John Burroughs Schools in America
John Burroughs School, St. Louis, Missouri
http://www.jburroughs.org/
John Burroughs Reporter
http://www.jburroughs.org/news/reporter.html

Links:
Klyne Esopus Museum
http://www.klyneesopusmuseum.org/

Ralph T. Waterman Bird Club
http://www.watermanbirdclub.org/

Alan Devoe Bird Club
http://www.alandevoebirdclub.org/

Press Coverage, Publications, Films and Interviews:
Archived: Audio, Print and Video

The John Burroughs Spring 2011 Annual Literary Awards luncheon
featured in Education Update.

Burroughs' West Park home was a get-away
By Anthony P. Musso
For The Poughkeepsie Journal • May 13, 2009
An interview with Jason Dempsey, resident naturalist at Slabsides.
Click here

The National Parks:
America's Best Idea
Episode 2 includes the John Burroughs portion of the story.
http://www.pbs.org/nationalparks/