Walk and Talk
2024 December Annual Meeting
FOMR Annual Meeting. Much thanks goes out to Special Guest, Jonathon Parker who provided a presentation on his work as a cartographer, sharing his passion for the history of the McIntosh Reserve through the donation of his hand-drawn map of The Creek Nation. This work of art will be on […]
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2024 October Report
Big thanks to Daniel Sollenberger, DNR, for bringing us up to speed on some of Georgia’s slow pokes in a Turtle Talk at McIntosh Reserve Park.
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2024 August 23 Report
It’s was a beautiful morning to participate in the Southeast Pollinator Census. A quick shout out to Birds Georgia for the efforts made this past spring in establishing a pollinator garden filled with native species. Despite our dry summer, it’s is doing really well and was visited today by bees, […]
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2024 August Report
A big thanks to Brent Hess and Garrett Cooke, DNR, for a great electrofishing sampling demonstration this morning. See the photos below! (Click on the photo to see a slide show of all of the photos, or click on the tiny “>” to the lower right of this photo to […]
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2024 July Report
On July 20, a group of FOMR members did an exploration of the Little Tallapoosa Park. We first walked around the paved path on the south side of the park and then walked the trail around the big lake on the north side of the park. The photos below were […]
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2024 May Report
On Saturday, May 18, a group of us did a hike in the newest property to be added to McIntosh Reserve Park, beginning on an unpaved road to the south of the old Ranger Station. After walking east along the unpaved road for a few hundred yards, we turned south […]
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2024 March Report – Eagles
Bob Sargent of DNR gave a great talk on Eagles in Georgia last Saturday and led us on a short hike to view the eagles nest in a large pine tree across the river from McIntosh. The highlight of the morning came when the eaglet decided to take some exercise; […]
