Alliance for the Cumberlands Fact Sheet (pdf document) Cumberland News June, 2005 Edition This is the first of the Alliance for the Cumberlands’ monthly newsletters, Cumberland News. The purpose of Cumberland News is to keep you up to date with our activities and also to help you do the same for your members. Feel free to use any part of Cumberland News in your own newsletters. Cumberland News will be e-mailed to you at the first of every month. If you have news that you would like to share with others, please feel free to e-mail kmedlock@tnc.org and it will be included in the next issue. What we’re up to…. Promoting In an effort to keep everyone up to date with the activities of the Alliance for the Cumberlands, we’ve launched our "media strategy". Cumberland News is one part of the strategy. We will also be providing talking points and press releases on newsworthy issues involving the Alliance for the Cumberlands. You can help us! If you have a press release you’d like to share, send it to kmedlock@tnc.org. If you see an article in your local paper that you think might interest us, please clip it and send it to us so that we can keep better records of our media successes. Conserving The Stewardship Planning Committee has had its first conference call and everyone is excited about the possibilities. This summer we will be compiling a database of conservation, preservation, and recreation plans in the region and the strategies employed by each one. You can help! If your organization has a land management plan, a historical preservation plan, a recreation plan, a conservation plan, or any other prioritization of the lands on the Cumberland Plateau, please let us know so that we can include it in our database. Educating The Conference Committee is off to a booming start, planning for the First Annual Alliance for the Cumberlands Conference. The conference will be held early in ’06 and the details will be coming soon! Save the Dates…. Public meetings to learn more about the Cumberland Plateau National Heritage Corridor and provide input to the process will be held the week of June, 13th. June, 13th—Monteagle June, 14th—Chattanooga June, 15th—Crossville June, 16th—Clinton/Norris All meetings will start at 5:30 and run until 6:45. Stay tuned for more details. The Summer meeting of the Alliance for the Cumberlands will be held at the Cookeville Chamber of Commerce on July, 26th. The meeting will begin at 9:00 central time. More details to come soon. Group Opportunities.... Want to know more about the Cumberland Plateau National Heritage Corridor project? We’ll be happy to schedule a presentation for any group, just call or e-mail us at 865-546-5998 or kmedlock@tnc.org Welcome Katie Warner! We’d like to extend a hearty welcome to Katie Warner, a Maryville College student and intern for the Alliance for the Cumberlands this summer. No doubt she will help us get some great work done this summer. Members of the Alliance for the Cumberlands..... Alabama A&M University—Center for Forestry and Ecology Borderlands Foundation Cordell Hull Birthplace State Park Cumberland County Daniel Boone National Forest – ex officio Friends of Big South Fork NRRA, Inc. Friends of Cordell Hull Historic Rugby Kentucky Natural Lands Trust Kentucky State Nature Preserves Commission Land Trust for Tennessee National Parks Conservation Association Sgt. Alvin C. York State Park Southern Environmental Law Center Tennessee Citizens for Wilderness Planning Tennessee Division of Forestry Tennessee Division of Natural Heritage Tennessee Forestry Association Tennessee Parks and Greenways Foundation Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency The Nature Conservancy—KY Chapter The Nature Conservancy—TN Chapter U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, TN Field office U.S. Forest Service Research and Development Upper Cumberland Development District If you wish to be added to the list of Alliance members, please fill out a membership form and return it to: Alliance for the Cumberlands 706 Walnut St. Suite 200 Knoxville, TN 37902 Or Fax to: 865-329-2422 If you wish to receive Cumberland News or other Alliance for the Cumberlands e-mails or you know of someone who would like to be added to the list, please contact Katherine Medlock at kmedlock@tnc.org Sandra K. Goss, Alliance for the Cumberlands Coordinator, presents a token of appreciation to Ruth Horton at the Alliance's November 30 meeting. Horton, a TVA Project Manager for the Koppers Coal Reserve Environmental Impact Statement, spoke to the group about the EIS process Below some pictures taken at an Alliance for the Cumberlands meeting

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