Florida Land Cruiser Association

I just received this e-mail from "Tread Lightly" about a volunteer opportunity next weekend at Ocala National Forest. You can bet I will be there, and I would love it if we could really show a large contingent of FJs and other Toyotas at this event, the Wheelers for the Wounded and at the Hard Rock on Sunday.

Volunteers Needed for Project on Ocala NF
At a time when many off-road areas are closing from lack of funds, Tread Lightly! and HUMMER are helping open 81 miles of trails specifically for four wheel drive vehicle use in Florida, but we need help from volunteers!

The project is part of a Tread Lightly! program called HUMMER’s Recreation Rescue. Thanks to funding from HUMMER and the help from volunteers, the Ocala National Forest will be able to properly sign the area, install educational kiosks, and print new maps. This newly designated 81-mile route is called “Four Wheel Drive Way.”

The project will kick-off with a volunteer workday on Saturday, June 21 from 10AM to 3PM. Volunteers will be asked to dig post-holes and help install various signs along the route. The meeting place for the workday is at the intersection of SR40 and FR597 (also known as NF597) at 10:00AM. It’s a little under 10 miles west of SR19. We can provide lunch.

The workday will be held in conjunction with a special “Wheelers for the Wounded” event, which strives to provide weekends of off-roading and camping to the country's wounded military members. The HUMMER X Club will be hosting that event, which will happen on Saturday night and Sunday. If you would like to attend that event, which includes dinner on Saturday night and riding on Sunday at a local private park called The Hard Rock, please let us know ASAP.

Please bring work gloves. If you have a post hole digger, those would definitely come in handy.

If you are available to volunteer, let us know as soon as you can, thank you in advance!

Monica Clay
Communications Specialist
Tread Lightly!
298 24th Street, Suite 325
Ogden, UT 84401
phone 800.966.9900
fax 801.621.8633

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