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We somehow missed this WMC-TV news story from March 5 about the reaction of Park Friends Inc. to the Teton Clearcut. Be sure to watch the video; the text summary is inaccurate.
Sunday, March 30, 2008
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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.
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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.
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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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- Can't you feel that sun a-shining?
- Forest group upset at Memphis Zoo for removing trees
- Is the Zoo a Tadpole, or Is it the Fly?
- Nature in a Cage
- Baby, it's a wild world...
- The future's so bright, we gotta wear shades
- Behold the hippopotamus
- Walling in or walling out?
- Top 10 Things We'd Love to Hear the Memphis Zoo Say
- They make a desert and call it Teton Trek
- Giving a Canopy to the Numbers
- Another Master Plan
- Along the way...
- Demolition, man...
- SUV Convention
- Group Opposes Clear-Cutting For Zoo Exhibit
- The medium is the message
- The Zoo Trees
- Little Miss Sunshine
- Denied!
- Stick 'em up
- Long may they stand
- Official Position of Park Friends Inc.
- Down With Fence, Up With Spring
- Yeah... what Stacey said!
- Get Thee to the Forest
- Friends of Knowland Park
- Size Doesn't Matter
- Zoo Land vs. Parkland
- Mixed messages at the zoo
- Overton Park in the Snow
- Let's Compare
- Eyewitness News: Midtowners fight expansion of Mem...
- In Brief: Zoo expansion revives group
- FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: CPOP REBORN
- Winter Wonderland
- Communication gap dooms trees
- Up A Tree
- A linear equation
- Ancient treasure destroyed in an instant
- Lack of foresight doomed the trees
- Zoo News
- Old Forest Furor
- Mama Likey
- Memphis' best-kept secret
- Anonymous Zoo Response
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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
3 comments:
I like the way the summary credits PFI for the graffiti! And Brian forgot to say, "It's been in the plan for twenty years..." I did enjoy watching him say, "We tried to have as little impact as possible" with a straight face!!
Seriously -- bravo on the acting job, Brian! I would love to see anyone make that statement with a straight face.
By the time you get to the point where the media is asking you to justify a clearcut, you've got to know you're on pretty thin mud.
Been in the master plan for 20 years???? Funny, but I don't see a "Teton Trek" or anything like it in the master plan posted on the zoo web site.
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