Recent WODC Newsletters are now available in PDF format, with selected
back-issues available for purchase. Nancy Boettiger has compiled a
29-year index of WODC Newsletters.
Read about the history of Mead Base, now known as
the Mead Conservation Center, and the home of our summer trail
crew.
Many people have compared the
Ice Storm of '98 to the 1938 hurricane. Click the
button above for a first hand account of the hurricane damage, and what it was like on
WODC trails. (Local hikers will be particularly interested in the vivid description of Rollins
Trail following the hurricane. It sounds a bit like Dicey's Mill trail
following the ice storm, but you be the judge.)
With so much severe damage to Wilderness trails, why not use chain saws to get them
cleared ASAP? Click above to see the letter from WODC Trails Chair Peter Smart to
former
WMNF Supervisor Donna Hepp making the case for maintaining the "primitive tools
only" policy.