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| Announcement: Big Cypress CITO 2008 GC1B1MN |
| Posted: BigDaddyD @ Tue Apr 22, 2008 8:55 pm |
The Friends of Big Cypress will be hosting a CITO Event at Big Cypress Tree State Natural Area/ State Park on May 17th, 2008. The Friends are a non-profit organization that helps to promote and develop our state parks for the benefit of our communities and children.
Come join in as we give back to our state’s first state natural area!!
Mr. Bill McCall, the manager at Big Cypress has been a great help in planning this CITO Event. He has designated a few areas that we can help to clean up in the park, such as fallen tree limbs, trash, and old wire fencing, so bring your gloves and be ready to do a little yanking!! Trash bags will be available. If you have rakes, hoes or a shovels that you can bring they might be very useful in a couple of areas.
The meeting point for this CITO is at the posted coordinates. Starting time will be at 9am and we will work till 11:30am . The Friends of Big Cypress will be providing lunch for those who participate.
There will be plenty of work for those who come. The park is handicap accessible and most of the projects will allow for those in wheelchairs the ability to work.
There are five caches in the park if you have not found them yet. This CITO will allow those coming from the South to go North into Kentucky to find caches in the afternoon, or those from the North into the Jackson area.
Big Cypress is a 330-acre natural area which lies in the floodplain of the middle fork of the Obion River in West TN. The park is very popular with our Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts and hosts several camporees each year as well as individual troop camping trips.
The park is named for a National Champion Bald Cypress in the USA and the largest tree of any species east of the Mississippi River. The tree’s diameter was over 13 feet inside the hollow part of the tree and it’s circumference was approximately 40 feet.
The tree lived to be 1350 years old before lightning struck and killed the tree in 1976. The lightning knocked the top out of the tree and the tree smoldered for two weeks. The tree is no longer standing at this time and cannot be seen from the two mile long bottomland trail that once led visitors to a place where the tree could be observed.
Work is being done and a grant submitted to start a boardwalk out into the bottomland that once housed the trail.
LOOK FORWARD TO SEEING YOU THERE!!
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