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Yesterday, we mailed our response to last week's rejection letter. Click the image to biggify.
Friday, July 11, 2008
Please read the letter, I nailed it to your door
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OUR MISSION
To preserve and defend the Old Forest and open spaces of Overton Park for the enjoyment, education, and inspiration of this and future generations.
OUR BOARD
MAPS
Overton Park map, circa 1901
Overton Park Historic District, 1978
Overton Park Master Plan Map, 1988
Memphis Zoo Master Plan, 2001
Memphis Zoo vs. Old Forest, 2008
Teton Trek Exhibit Map
Demolition Plan Overlay, 2008
PUBLIC DOCUMENTS
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Floristic Survey of the Overton Park Forest
This comprehensive plant survey was commissioned by the Park Services division of the City of Memphis and was completed in August of 2009.
[Download the 184K PDF] - Teton Clearcut Tree Survey
You can download the tree survey section of the Zoo's demolition plan as six large PDF files (2.5MB to 3MB each) courtesy of CPOP.
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Special Capital Campaign Issue of Exzooberance, official newsletter of the Memphis Zoo. July/August '06.
[Download the 2.3MB PDF] -
City of Memphis Contract #N10713 governing the operations and management of the Memphis Zoo. Signed December 30, 1994.
[Download the 1.1MB PDF] - Letter to the Memphis Zoo from Citizens to Preserve Overton Park. May 12, 2008. Read it here.
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Overton Park Master Plan
This 20-year master plan for Overton Park was completed in April of 1988.
[Download the 5MB PDF] -
Overton Park Master Plan Map
This foldout map illustrates the 20-year master plan.
[Download the 2MB JPG] -
Overton Park Historical Report
This 75-page document was prepared in 1987 as background for the Overton Park Master Plan.
[Download the 6MB PDF] - Letter from the Memphis Zoo to Citizens to Preserve Overton Park. July 2, 2008. Read it here.
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Chickasaw Bluffs Exhibit Update in Exzooberance, official newsletter of the Memphis Zoo. July/August '08.
Read it here. - Letter to the Memphis Zoo from Citizens to Preserve Overton Park. July 10, 2008. Read it here.
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July
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- Going downtown
- The Wild Side of Life
- Sunday morning, praise the dawning
- It isn't even past
- The White Rose Rebellion
- From the WTF Files
- Sounds from the Old Forest
- The Natural is the Normal
- Satura tota nostra est
- More signal, less noise
- A forest without fences
- Chickasaw Bluff Fluff
- Please read the letter, I nailed it to your door
- More Branston...
- News brief
- Bonus map!
- Rejection letter
- Bad fences make bad neighbors
- It's been in our master plan for 20 years...
- Your old road is rapidly aging
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OUR COALITION
We're grateful to these groups for supporting the Old Forest State Natural Area campaign:
- Clean Memphis
- Cooper-Young Community Association
- Evergreen Historic District Association
- Friends for Our Riverfront
- Greater Memphis Greenline
- Hein Park Neighborhood Association
- Historic Broad Business Association
- Hi-Tone Cafe
- Livable Memphis
- Memphis Heritage
- Memphis Regional Design Center
- Mid-South Peace & Justice Center
- Otherlands Coffee Bar
- Project Green Fork
- Sierra Club - Chickasaw Group
- Sierra Club - Tennessee Chapter
- Skatelife Memphis
- T. Clifton Art Gallery
- Tucker-Jefferson Neighborhood Association
- Vollentine-Evergreen Community Association
MEDIA ARCHIVES
- Group hopes to polish 'jewel' of Overton Park
- TO PROTECT
- Overton Park Legacy
- Green space stirs 'best use' debate at Overton
- Zoo Just One Part of Overton Park
- Old Forest, New Protection
- Foliage on file
- Clueless about the ecosystem
- Zoo Made Circus of Teton Exhibit
- Overton Park Doesn't Need a New "Lake"
- Keep Overton Park for people
- Greensward Mudpit News Roundup
- Itsy-bitsy it's not
- Unusual spider may put Memphis on scientific map
- Overton Park Supporters Outraged Over Zoo Plans
- This Old Forest
- Out of the Woods (LTEs)
- Overton Park
- Out of the Woods
- Zoo's plans bear scrutiny
- Who'll speak for trees?
- Grassroots Group Fights Zoo Expansion
- A few questions for the zoo
- Zoo Expansion Cuts into Forest Causing Controversy
- The zoo that ate the park
- New Growth
- Hands off the Old Forest
- Zoo expansion threatens city treasure
- Zoo plans treed by protest
- Who will protect the Old Forest, Memphis' oldest living ancestor?
- Overton Park is still endangered
- Zoo expansion takes a heavy toll
- Overton Park, symbol for our future success
- Group Opposes Clear-Cutting For Zoo Exhibit
- The Zoo Trees
- Long may they stand
- Zoo Land vs. Parkland
- Mixed messages at the zoo
- Eyewitness News: Midtowners fight expansion of Memphis Zoo
- In Brief: Zoo expansion revives group
- CPOP Press Release
- Communication gap dooms trees
- Up A Tree
- Ancient treasure destroyed in an instant
- Lack of foresight doomed the trees
- Forest group upset at Memphis Zoo for removing trees
- Old Forest Furor
- Memphis' best kept secret
- Also, how to save on the feed bill
- Habitat hypocrisy hurts zoo's message
9 comments:
and I'm guessing you also read his "article" in the zoo news magazine that went out this week? The bluffs "exhibit" didn't sound 10 years away at all.
I just got my copy of EXZOOBERANCE and will scan/post that article soon. Thanks for the reminder!
I think the tone of the letter vs. the tone of your comments on this blog are drastically different.
Why should they respect us if you keep calling them idiots and morons and self serving? The first step in bridging a gap in an argument is at least acting like you respect someone.
The official letters you write show you understand that. Do you not think they look at this blog?
Hmmm... do we need a disclaimer? "The comments posted on this website do not necessarily reflect the views of CPOP, its members, or its board of directors"?
Or are you objecting to the tone of our blog in general?
I think the tone of the zoo speaking vs. the tone of the zoo actions are drastically different.
Why should we respect you when you say one thing and do another? Or DON'T say anything and rape the land!?
That last comment underscores the 9:50pm post's importance.
How could Brady or anyone from the Zoo listen to you with an open mind after reading on your blog someone basically call them a rapist?
It's like your saying "you're an idiot. Now give in."
the zoo has drastically changed the face of the park by clear-cutting part of it to make way for an artificial exhibit. the zoo management did so without public input. they seem to be headed in the same direction.
brady has not listened before. he should be removed as zoo CEO. He has no respect for nature. Maybe he is not an idiot, but he certainly is ignorant.
How else would one describe the actions that the zoo, under the chancellorship of C.Brady, did to the old growth forest, flora, and fauna? Rapist is an understatement... Terrorist is more on the mark.
Note the chain of events! CPOP respectfully accepted Chuck Brady as a 'negotiation partner'. By rights they might have asked for his prosecution, his removal from office, or monetary damages to the city. Instead you merely asked that the zoo release their hold from additional claimed acres. Although you were never seen as equals in his world, never as REAL citizens with a legitimate concern, you humbly exposed yourself to Brady's belligerent presence. Note for the record that Mr. Strickland (of the city) displayed a very pleasant, genuinely sincere personality from all reports about the meeting. Mr. Brady however was obviously NOT SINCERE, as he used the delay until his eventual response by mail ONLY to have the zoo web-site announce a 'fait-accompli' (done deal, we might say also). If the announcement had come in person Brady might have followed up with this goodbye to CPOP: "Thank you all for being nice protester-people, hmm, I mean citizens and what not! Now get out of the office and let me get on with BUSINESS AS USUAL and have a nice day... "
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