NEXT MEETING: THURSDAY, January 19, 2006, at 6:00 P.M.,

Dunbar Cave State Natural Area VISITOR CENTER

MEETING TOPICS

Audio Visual Room and Cave Gate Update from park staff.

Video production – who is going to do what to get this together for the new AV room.

NEWS

Trees to Trails From the size of the mulch pile it looks like we had another successful Trees to Trails event with a lot of discarded Christmas trees brought to the park for mulching.

Thanks so much to park staff (especially Gregg Bush in park maintenance) for dealing with the hundreds of trees dropped off. He diligently cleaned those that were dropped off with tinsel and sometimes even the lights still attached.

Web Site Launched Check out dunbarcave.org, our FODC web site maintained by Sally Schiller.

Audio visual room progress

Park staff, Bob and Amy visited Warner Park and Children’s Discovery Center on December 13, and Stone’s River Battlefield on January 10 to view their audio visual rooms and get ideas for the AV room at DCSNA.

We look forward to hearing about how the design is coming and offering FODC help in order to meet the April 15 deadline to encumber the state parks dollars for this project.

NEWS FROM DUNBAR CAVE by Amy Wallace, Park Interpreter

The biggest excitement here was that we had a mature Bald Eagle for at least twenty minutes on December 20. I was off that day, but luckily Casper and I were walking the dog that day and it flew from the Golf Course side of the lake to the other side and perched in a tree near the picnic area for at least fifteen minutes. We got a very good look at it and were able to point it out to several park visitors.

The second biggest thing is that we officially have a new Clerk. We welcome Debbie Boen to the staff . Her first day will be January 16. Most of you should know Debbie as she is active with the Friends of Dunbar Cave. We look forward to working with her for many years.

We also have our four Gadwall ducks that have been with us for the past two months; have counted 30 bats hibernating in the cave ( five Big Brown and the rest Eastern Pipistrelle); and are working on the audio-visual room. See you all at the meeting!

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Make check payable to Friends of Dunbar Cave, Inc.

Mail to: FODC, c/o Ron Hunter, Treasurer, P.O. Box 254, Clarksville, TN 37041