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U.S. Forestry Service ends public comment on massive project
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The United States Forestry Service is ending the public comment portion of their newly proposed Foothills Landscape Project, a massive undertaking that includes logging, burning, rerouting trails, herbicide use, and building service roads through roughly 157,000 acres of the 750,145-acre park. According to a Forestry Service press release, “[t]he project is designed to maintain and restore healthy forest, habitat and watershed conditions across 157,625-acres within the Chattahoochee National Forest in portions of Dawson, Fannin, Gilmer, Habersham, Lumpkin, Murray, Rabun and White Counties.”
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First Baptist Church hosts celebration with stunt show
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A member of the Real Encounter ministry does a BMX bike stunt at the event on Sunday. - photo by Rio White
The First Baptist Church of Dawsonville hosted its Vacation Bible School kick-off event on Sunday, June 5, complete with inflatables, a petting zoo, bluegrass music and a stunt show featuring a motorcycle and BMX bikes.
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