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Big Thicket Acquisition Needs Your Help!

Brandt Mannchen

Sierrans have a rare opportunity to help save a valuable part of the Big Thicket. Forty-five acres of prime bottomland forest is on the market. This forest is located at the confluence of Beech and Village Creeks. Acquisition of this forest will protect the watershed of Big Thicket National Preserve and will help connect parcels of federal and along Village Creek.

This forest has one-half mile of frontage on Beech Creek, white sand bars, hundreds of bald cypress, tupelo-cypress sloughs, and huge sweetgums, oaks, and blackgums with a tapestry of wild azaleas, blueberries, ferns, and mosses underneath.

The Big Thicket Natural Heritage Trust (a land trust) has taken out an option to buy the forest and now needs to raise $38,250 to save this forest forever! Please send as generous a donation as you can. Make your check out to the Big Thicket Natural Heritage Trust, P.O. Box 1701, Jasper, Texas 75951. For more information call Brandt Mannchen at H713-664-5962 or W713-640-4313.

July 2002

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