The William Bartram GroupServing Greenville, Laurens, Spartanburg, and Union Counties

Explore, enjoy, and protect the planet.

Volume 43, Number 9

The William Bartram Group meets the 3rd Wednesday of each month

(except July) at 255 Enterprise Blvd. Greenville, SC 29615-3577

at 7:30 P.M.–unless otherwise noted.

see web site for directions

http://sierraupstate.org

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Comingin December

Wednesday, December 18

6:30 P.M.

Christmas Partyand Covered Dish

Dinner❧

by Karen Mascaro

by Karen Mascaro

Saying ‘NO’ to Becoming a Waste ColonyNovemberWednesday, November 13*

Don’t Dump on SC

Benton WislinskiChapter Lobbyist

*Please note: This is the 2nd Wed. instead of 3rd

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November 2013

The presentation for this month’s meeting, Saying ‘NO’ to Becoming a Waste Colony, will be covered by our state chapter lobbyist, Benton Wislinski. This is part of a series of Sierra Club Group meetings around the state, as it will be one of our top priorities in the year ahead. This lecture will focus on the efforts of big

waste corporations to target South Carolina as a haven for the nation’s municipal solid and hazardous waste. Benton will provide background of Sierra Club’s fi ght to stop a legislative bill currently

being pushed in the General Assembly, H.3290, also known as the “fl ow control” bill. Also to be

discussed are where the legislative battle now stands, the political dynamics so associated with “fl ow control,” and next steps to needed defeat the bill, including our anti-out-of-

state waste campaign, “Don’t Dump on SC”. Other proactive, anti-waste bills and waste fi ghts in the Judicial arm of our state will be considered as well.

Benton serves as the Sierra Club’s SC Chapter lobbyist as well as that of the SC Wildlife

Federation. He is the founder and principal of BGW Solutions, LLC, a government relations, advocacy and marketing company. Working with the Sierra Club and Wildlife Federation are of a deep passion: Benton is an avid hiker, runner, soccer player and sportsman.

Our annual Christmas get together will be held on Wednesday, December 18 from 6:30 to 8:30 P.M. at the Coldwell Banker Caine Real Estate Gallery. The Gallery is located at 428 South Main Street in downtown Greenville next to the Main Street bridge over the Reedy River. Please bring an appetizer, side dish or dessert to share. The Club will provide a meat platter. Soft drinks will also be provided, or you can bring your own beverage of choice. Mark your calendars and join us for an evening of good food, drawings, and great holiday spirit on Wednesday, December 18.

Coming in DecemberOur Annual Holiday Celebration

waste corporations to target South Carolina as a haven for the nation’s municipal solid and hazardous waste. Benton will provide background of Sierra Club’s fi ght to stop a legislative bill currently

being pushed in the General Assembly, H.3290, also known as the “fl ow control” bill. Also to be

discussed are where the legislative battle now stands, the political dynamics so associated with “fl ow control,” and next steps to needed defeat the bill, including our anti-out-of-

state waste campaign, “Don’t Dump on SC”. Other proactive, anti-waste bills and waste fi ghts in the Judicial arm of our state will be considered as well.

Benton serves as the Sierra Club’s SC Chapter lobbyist as well as that of the SC Wildlife

Our annual Christmas get together will be held on at the Coldwell

Banker Caine Real Estate Gallery. The Gallery is located at 428 South Main Street in downtown Greenville next to the Main Street bridge over the Reedy River. Please bring an appetizer, side dish or dessert to share. The Club will provide a meat platter. Soft drinks will also be provided, or you can bring your own

Mark your calendars and join us for an evening of

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Saturday, November 16 • Adopt-a-Highway Join us for the last pick-up of 2013. The Bartram Group has a two mile stretch on East North (also known as) Old Spartanburg Road between Mitchell Road and Brushy Creek. We will meet at 9:00 A.M. at Mitchell Road El-ementary School which is on the corner of Mitchell Road and Old Spartanburg Road. If it is pouring rain, we’ll not meet. You will be provided the bags, twisty ties, work gloves, orange safety vests and water. We cover two miles, both sides of the street, and are very fortunate to have sidewalks on the entire route. Contact Steve Root at (864) 346-3081 or stephenjohnroot@gmail.com, or Dennis Chamberlain at (864) 430-3754.

Trail Service Outings at Mountain Bridge Wil-derness Area for 2013 • November 23Please join us on Saturday, November 23, for the last 2013 Trail Service Project to improve and preserve the existing trails at these mountain parks. If you en-joy these trails, please plan to join us on November 23. For more details, con-tact Jim Majors at (864) 233-7576 or jim_majors@bellsouth.net.

Outingsand Dates to Remember

Nonmembers of the Sierra Club are welcome to join us on our outings. Please call the trip leader to let him/her know that you are going. She/he can then give you a location to meet as well as informa-tion on last minute changes. Discuss how strenu-

ous the trip is, and any health problems you may have of which she/he should be aware. Please, no pets, guns, radios, etc. on hikes. Interested in leading a trip? Call Eric Thompson (864) 297-6015. In order to participate on one of the Sierra Club’s outings, you will need to sign a liability waiver. If you would like to read a copy of the waiver prior to the outing, please see <http://www.sierraclub.org/outings/chapter/forms> or call (415) 977–5630. In the interests of facilitating the logistics of some outings, it is customary that participants make carpooling arrangements. The Sierra Club does not have insurance for carpooling arrangements and assumes no liability for them. Carpooling, ride sharing, or anything similar is strictly a private arrangement among the participants. Participants assume the risks associated with this travel.

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From the Chairby Eric Thompson

A few months ago, the adult son of the original own-er of our house brought us some old pictures from the 1970’s. The neighborhood looked much like new subdi-visions today, barren with not an original tree around.

We know that clear-cutting destroys the habitat for wildlife. I am sure this was true in 1970 in my subdivision. Today, the trees have grown back to 50 to 75 feet in height. There is much underbrush, even if mostly non-native species. With this new habitat, there are of course, squirrels, chipmunks, voles and small birds. What is the real sign of a recovered

habitat, though is the predator bird, the red-tailed hawk. Without the rest of the food chain, plant and animal, the predator species cannot exist. I marvel once or twice every week when I see this fi ne large bird fl ying silently around the neighborhood. It is a testament that habitats can recover from man’s destruction.

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Upstate Elder Law, P.A. Wills and Estate Planning, Medicaid Planning, Guardianships and

Conservatorships, Estate Administration, Special Needs Trusts

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Don PilzerSocial Security Disability only300 University Ridge, Greenville, SC 29601; (800) 518–0234don@donpilzer.com

Gary W. PoliakoffRepresenting Victims of Personal Injury and Toxic Exposure and Contaminated Property • We represent no violators of environmental law. Website: gpoliakoff.com215 Magnolia Street, Spartanburg, SC 29306; (864) 582–5472atty@gpoliakoff.com

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got to do things for

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ship for the land.— A. B. Coleman

✍ Deadline for December/January bulletin is Friday, November 22

Send your submissions to wbartramnews@gmail.com

2013 O� cers Bartram Group of the Sierra Club

(Executive Committee Members denoted by asterisk)

Sierra Club Membership & Offi cers listing is the property of the Bartram Group of the Sierra Club and cannot be distributed without permission.

Chair Eric Thompson* h 297–6015 w 797–6117

Vice Chair Ron Sobczak* 213–9504Secretary

Treasurer Bob Church* h 268–4769

Adopt–a–Highway Steve Root 346–3081

Conservation Trey Fouché* 569–9393Volunteer Coordinator

Legal Dennis Chamberlain* h 331–3069

Newsletter Distribution Carol Thompson h 297–6015

Newsletter Editor M.E. Hill wbartramnews@gmail.com

Outings Eric Thompson* h 297–6015

State ExCom Rep. Kathleen KempeAlternate Trey Fouché* 569–9393

Trails Maintenance Jim Majors h 233–7576

Programs Karen Mascaro* w 250–4620 Fund Raising

Web Master/Facebook Dave Wilder dave@ wilddave.com

Programs Karen Mascaro* w 250–4620 Fund Raising

I believe that you

got to do things for

Web Master/Facebook Dave Wilder dave@ wilddave.com

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SIERRA CLUBWilliam Bartram GroupP.O. Box 5923Greenville, SC 29606–5923(803) 256–8487

Spartanburg ContactChip Green(864) 579-0164; jwgmaps@gmail.com

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The Green SpotSharing the Green

Everybody has a junk drawer. When we move, the junk drawer becomes a surprisingly large junk box of items that don’t really belong anywhere — the contents don’t go in the kitchen, but not necessarily in the living room, and defi nitely not in the bathroom. Avoid adding to our ever-growing landfi lls and recycle your leftover junk with these programs.

ReCORK America (recork.org) collects wine corks. These souvenirs of happy nights with friends can be recycled into soles for shoes and fund the effort to plant trees.

Broken crayons see new life with the National Crayon Recycle program (crazycrayons.com), whose representatives estimate they’ve diverted more than 92,000 pounds of unwanted cray-ons from landfi lls.

Keys are the ultimate junk drawer menace. It’s like they mul-tiply in there, and you don’t know what any of them actually unlock. Keys for Kindness (keysforkindness.com) is a family-run organization that recycles keys in hopes of fi nding a cure for Multiple Sclerosis.

When in doubt about what to recycle where, check out Earth911’s quick-search tool to fi nd recycling locations near you.

Address ChangesFor subscription inquiries and address changes, contact Sierra Club Member Services, PO Box 52968, Boulder, CO 80328-2968. Send old and new addresses and a Sierra label. Or e-mail changes to <address.changes@sierraclub.org>.

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