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Supporting Organizations
Supporting Organizations play a vital role with WaysSouth by assisting with
- Dissemination of transportation information
- Contacts with various governmental units about transportation issues
- Providing information about relevant local issues
- Providing critical mass in promoting vital transportation issues
WaysSouth continues to build connections among groups whose goals are impacted by transportation decisions. Read more about becoming a Supporting Organization and consider joining WaysSouth in our efforts to promote sustainable transportation practices.
Featured Supporting Organization:SouthWings
Founded in 1996, SouthWings is a conservation and public benefit aviation non-profit that provides skilled pilots and aerial education to enhance conservation efforts across the Southeast. Our team and our service are unique, combining the knowledge of conservation issues with experienced piloting skills. We enable those we fly to better understand, from an otherwise inaccessible vantage point, the globally significant ecosystems of the Southeast. Through the aerial perspective, SouthWings' service provides experiential understanding of environmental challenges and opportunities for conservation. This perspective fosters understanding of scale/magnitude, and the relationships of cumulative and compounding environmental effects. We provide a means to educate public and elected officials, media, community leaders, researchers and conservation organizations. Read more... |
Action for a Clean Environment, Alto, Georgia
Clay/Cherokee Chapter of Stop I-3 Coalition
Clayton Woman's Club
Common Sense at the Nuclear Crossroads
Cookeville High Chapter of SPEAK
Environmental Community Action, Inc.
Foundation for Global Sustainability
Friends of Georgia, Stone Mountain, Georgia
Georgia Appalachian Trail Club
Georgia Chapter of the Sierra Club
Georgia Council of Trout Unlimited
Great Old Broads for Wilderness
Harvey Broome Group Chapter, Sierra Club, Knoxville, Tennessee
Hiwassee River Watershed Coalition
Jackson-Macon Conservation Alliance
National Parks Conservation Association (NPCA)
Natural Resources Defense Council
North Carolina Alliance For Transportation Reform (NCATR)
North Carolina Wildlife Foundation
Nuclear Information and Resource Center
Rabun County, Ga. Chapter of STOP I-3 Coalition
Sautee Nacoochee Community Association
Soque River Watershed Association
Southern Appalachian Forest Coalition
Southern Environmental Law Center
TN Citizens for Wilderness Planning
Towns County Homeowners Association
Trout Unlimited, Rabun Chapter
Upper Chattahoochee Riverkeeper
Western North Carolina Alliance
Action
for a Clean Environment, Alto, Georgia
Action for a Clean Environment started in 1990
to resist a proposed incinerator in Alto — and
won! Since garbage was the problem we put on the
first state-wide rural recycling conference — and
many attended. It's been busy since then, with battles
over highways, airports, asphalt plants, clean food,
pesticides, landfills (garbage again) and more --
and we haven't always won. But together this coalition
can win on stopping I-3! Stopping this highway is
part of our mission in Northeast Georgia: "Working
to protect the purity of our water, soil and air." — Adele
Kushner, Executive Director
American
Whitewater
The mission of American Whitewater is to conserve
and restore America's whitewater resources and to
enhance opportunities to enjoy them safely.
American Whitewater works
to protect and restore rivers, maintains and provides
real-time flow information for a national inventory
of whitewater rivers, monitors potential threats to
whitewater river resources, publishes information on
river conservation, works with government agencies
to protect the ability of the public to have a voice
in the management of federal and state rivers and environs,
and provides technical advice to local groups regarding
river management and river conservation.
American Whitewater promotes paddling safety, publishes
reports on whitewater accidents, and maintains both
a uniform International ranking system for whitewater
rivers (the International Scale of Whitewater Difficulty)
and the internationally recognized American Whitewater
Safety Code.
American Whitewater reaches, serves and engages members,
volunteers, sponsors and organizational partners in
a variety of ways. The bi-monthly journal has been
its primary, iconic communication tool and member benefit
since the organization's inception. The journal has
recently been augmented as an organizational siren
by the website: www.americanwhitewater.org
Appalachian
Trail Conservancy
The Appalachian Trail Conservancy is a volunteer-based nonprofit organization dedicated to the conservation of the 2,175-mile Appalachian National Scenic Trail so that it will forever remain a simple footpath within a protected greenway along the Appalachian Mountains from Georgia to Maine. Our mission is to ensure that future generations will have clean water and air, scenic vistas, a healthy natural environment and opportunities for recreation and renewal along the entire Trail corridor.
The Carolina Mountain Club, now over 80 years old and the oldest Hiking and Trail Maintaining Club in Western NC fosters the enjoyment of the mountains of Western North Carolina and adjoining regions. We lead 175 hikes per year,
maintain 400 miles of trail, have an active program to build new trails, promote the conservation of the trails and natural scenery in our area, educate our members on hiking, trail building and maintenance skills, and work with the U.S. Forest Service, the National Park Service, and the State of North Carolina to achieve these goals.
Clay/Cherokee
Chapter of Stop I-3 Coalition
John Clarke
Clayton Woman's Club
Common Sense at the Nuclear Crossroads
Common Sense at the Nuclear Crossroads (CSNC) is an educational campaign focused on the transportation of nuclear materials and wastes, the local impact of the nuclear complex – both commercial and military. Asheville is at the crossroad of I-40 and I-26. The campaign was initiated in 2004, after a presentation by Dr. Helen Caldicott, world-renown author and speaker on nuclear issues.
Cookeville High Chapter of SPEAK
The Cookeville High School Chapter of SPEAK (Students
Promoting Environmental Action and Knowledge) was
founded in 2004. Fifty-members strong, CHS SPEAK
is dedicated to raising awareness in our community
about the environment and taking concrete steps to
better it. Among other things, We volunteer at Big
South Fork National River and Recreation Area, and
regularly contribute guest columns about the environment
to CHS's newspaper. Please see our president's site
at http://tntrailhead.blogspot.com to
see what's happening. Email: chsspeak@gmail.com
Environmental Community
Action, Inc.
(ECO-Action), Atlanta, GA.
Foundation for Global Sustainability
Friends of Georgia, Stone Mountain, Georgia
Georgia Appalachian Trail Club
Georgia Chapter of the Sierra Club
POSITION ON PROPOSED INTERSTATE 3 — "The
Georgia Chapter of the Sierra Club is opposed to the
building of an Interstate highway from Knoxville, Tennessee
to Savannah, Georgia. This proposed highway has been
identified as Interstate 3 in federal legislation sponsored
by Georgia Rep. Charles Norwood and Georgia Senators
Saxby Chambliss and Johnny Isakson. The Sierra Club
cannot believe that this project significantly helps
national defense, nor eases Atlanta's traffic problems.
Such a highway would only facilitate the continued
urban sprawl of Atlanta into the mountains of northeast
Georgia and western North Carolina. It would destroy
the rural quality of life in the region. It would also
forever alter the natural beauty of the southern Appalachian
Mountains that the area communities depend on for their
tourism trade, vital to their economies. In addition,
the project would severely impact the sensitive natural
environment of the area. Water quality, air quality,
and wildlife would all suffer as a result of this project.
The club also has concerns about this roads likely
use for the transporting of hazardous materials."
Georgia Council
of Trout Unlimited
"Trout Unlimited is America's leading trout
conservation organization dedicated to conserving,
protecting, and restoring coldwater fisheries and their
watersheds. Trout need clean, cold water
to survive and reproduce. The greatest threats
to trout streams are sedimentation and elevated water
temperature, which result from land use practices that
disturb natural conditions. We have witnessed
first hand the loss of trout habitat that occurs around
interstate construction corridors. The best mitigation
efforts are unable to adequately stem the silt, petroleum
runoffs, and thermal pollution that are integral to
the construction and use of interstates. There
is no corridor through the Chattahoochee National Forest
capable of avoiding the destruction of some of Georgia's
precious trout habitat."
Georgia ForestWatch
Vision: The members of Georgia ForestWatch share as their vision the protection and appreciation of the national forests in Georgia and the watersheds, native plants and wildlife they encompass.
Mission: Our mission is to promote management that leads to naturally self-sustaining forests and watersheds within the more than 850,000 acres of national forestlands in Georgia; to engage and educate the public to join in this effort; and to promote preservation of this legacy for future generations.
Great Old
Broads for Wilderness
Great Old Broads for Wilderness is a national,
public interest, public lands, grassroots organization
dedicated to increasing, preserving and protecting
America's roadless public lands. Broads uses the
wisdom and experience of elders to bring an under-represented
constituency to the public lands dialogue. Today
our wrinkled ranks have grown to include men and
younger women (Broads-in-training), though the majority
of our membership continues to be older women committed
to protecting wilderness areas.
A unique aspect of our
organization is that many members are long-time activists
with a wealth of knowledge. Our status as elders has
helped garner respect for our work among volunteers,
land managers, decision makers, and the media. Our
forte is raising public awareness for the importance
of wilderness, and using press coverage to alert the
public to inappropriate development and management
decisions affecting wilderness.
Great Old Broads bring
a unique perspective, and some well-earned wrinkles,
to the wilderness effort. As life-long nurturers and
care-givers, the Great Old Broads' approach is one
of perseverance and determination, rather than militancy
and contentiousness. If Great Old Broads are anything,
we are indefatigable in our quest, with a heart-felt
and lifetime outlook on the benefits of protecting
our wild, public lands. In addition, Great Old Broads
bring much wisdom, grace, and humor to the wilderness
discussions.
Harvey Broome Group Chapter, Sierra Club, Knoxville,
Tennessee
One of the favored routes for this abomination would
take the proposed road across the Appalachians just
south of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, along
the existing Rt 129 corridor — also known as the
Dragon's Tail. To construct an interstate highway through
the mountains would cause an incalculable amount of
ecological damage and destruction. The Harvey Broome
Group Chapter, and the TN Chapter as a whole, are strongly
opposed to the I-3 proposal.
Hiwassee River Watershed Coalition
HRWC
is a local conservation nonprofit organization whose mission is to facilitate water quality improvements in lakes and streams throughout the upper Hiwassee River watershed within Cherokee and Clay counties in NC and Towns and Union counties in north GA. For more than a decade HRWC has provided water quality education, funding for and implementation of voluntary watershed restoration projects, watershed planning, and opportunities for citizens to volunteer. The HRWC leadership believes that for water resources to truly be protected, citizens within a watershed must understand and participate in protection and restoration efforts.
Jackson-Macon Conservation Alliance
The Jackson-Macon Conservation Alliance is an
alliance of organizations, professionals and individuals
whose mission is to protect and preserve the natural
environment and cultural character of the headwater
regions of western North Carolina.
Executive, Director David M. Bates; Board Chair, Cynthia
Strain; Administrator, Debbie Lassiter 348 S. Fifth Street, Highlands, North Carolina 28741
phone: (828) 526-9172, e-mail: jmca@dnet.net
Lumpkin
Coalition
The Lumpkin Coalition is a 100% volunteer nonprofit
501c3 charitable organization formed to address issues
concerning North Georgia, Lumpkin County, and its residents.
We are dedicated to preserving quality of life for
all those who share it. To this end we support the
preservation of a clean and healthy environment, responsible
living, and responsible growth. Currently our three
main issues of concern are saving the Hemlock trees
from devastation by the hemlock woolly adelgid, supporting
the stop I-3 effort, and cleaning and monitoring the
health of our mountain rivers and streams.
Mountain Ivy Garden Club
The Mountain Ivy Garden Club is a member of the National Garden clubs, Inc, The Deep South Region, The Garden Club of Georgia Inc. and the Laurel District. Projects include the beautification of the Rock House gardens in downtown Clayton, the Veterans Park, the city sign, and recently we landscaped the new Habitat for Humanity House in Clayton. This winter we taught the prison crew how to prune Crape Mytle and other shurbs. We have been actively involved in the improvement of the county ordinances for Highway Businesses along the new 441 corridor, a project nearing completion.
National Parks
Conservation Association (NPCA)
Established in 1919, the National Parks Conservation
Association (NPCA) is the only national organization
solely dedicated to protecting and enhancing our national
park system. We recognize that rapid and unchecked
development immediately outside Great Smoky Mountains
National Park stands as one of the major threats to
the integrity of this magnificent resource. The latest
such threat is Interstate 3 (I-3), a highway that would
connect Savannah, Georgia to Knoxville, Tennessee,
currently proposed to skirt the western edge of the
park. NPCA stands with the Stop I-3 Coalition in opposition
to I-3.
NPCA recently played
a leading role in securing protection of the Aluminum Company of America (ALCOA)
property that abuts the western edge of the Smokies. The 2004 agreement with
ALCOA created a seamless swath of protected land including the Cherokee and
Nantahala National Forests, Joyce Kilmer – Slick Rock Wilderness, and
Great Smoky Mountains National Park. The importance and quality of this land
as a refuge for wildlife and its contribution to the southern Appalachian ecosystem
is significant, particularly since much of the land immediately adjacent to
the park is under threat of development in both Tennessee and North Carolina.
NPCA is committed to protecting the Great Smoky Mountains National Park from
the destructive impacts of I-3 and other inappropriate road construction and
development. More information is available on their website: http://www.npca.org.
Or contact:
Greg Kidd, Associate Director
Southeast Regional Office, National Parks Conservation
Association, 706 Walnut Street, Suite 200, Knoxville,
TN 37902
tel 865-329-2424, cell 865-803-4503, fax 865-329-2422
gkidd@npca.org
Natural Resources
Defense Council
The Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) is an
environmental action group supported by 650,000 members
and online activists. Our mission is to safeguard the
earth: its people, its plants and animals, and the
natural systems on which all life depends. By fighting
in court, working through Congress, and mobilizing
millions of people worldwide, NRDC has stopped powerful
corporate interests from destroying our clean air and
water, public lands and wildlife habitats. The NRDC
BioGems campaign—which includes our Cumberland
Plateau BioGem that encompasses ecologically important
regions in seven southeastern states—empowers
citizens to take effective online action in defense
of our planet's most endangered wild places.
North Carolina
Alliance For Transportation Reform (NCATR)
"We are a grassroots citizens'
organization that has been involved with transportation
issues across North Carolina since1992, including assistance
to numerous local groups engaged in road fights with
NCDOT. We have taken NCDOT to court on a number of
occasions, including on the Winston-Salem Beltway EIS
and on the plans to widen I-26 in Henderson County.
(We won in both of those cases.) We are about to get
involved with opposition to the the Heart of the Triad
project which is using $200,000 of DOT money to devise
a plan to promote the development of 53,000 acres of
undeveloped land between Winston-Salem and Greensboro.
Our mission is to give the citizens of NC a strong
and effective voice in the planning of our transportation
systems and projects."
North Carolina Wildlife Foundation
The North Carolina Wildlife Federation is one of North Carolina’s most effective organizations dedicated to the conservation of wildlife and wildlife habitats. With more than 60 years of experience, NCWF brings together the concerns of every North Carolinian who loves wildlife and wild places and the many ways to enjoy them. Our work is science-based. We create consensus by engaging government, industry and the public in efforts to protect North Carolina’s wildlife resources.
Nuclear Information and Resource Center
NIRS is the information and networking center for people and organizations concerned about nuclear power, radioactive waste, radiation, and sustainable energy issues.
Nuclear Watch South
Nuclear Watch South, formerly Georgians Against Nuclear Energy - GANE, was founded in 1977. A tough and savvy band of grassroots, anti-nuclear citizens, Nuclear Watch South works to raise public awareness of nuclear weapons, nuclear reactors, and nuclear waste. We have seen many important victories through the years attained through public education, public testimony, citizen lobbying, legal intervention, street protest and civil disobedience. We will continue to spread the life-affirming message "NO NUKES Y'ALL!" until the job is done!
Rabun County, Ga. Chapter of STOP I-3 Coalition
Lucy Bartlett
Sautee Nacoochee
Community Association
The mission of the Sautee Nacoochee Center is: “to
nurture creativity and to preserve and protect the
beloved resources of the Sautee and Nacoochee valleys
and surrounding areas.”
The Center's Community Planning Committee is monitoring
development in the valleys and working with White County
officials for a mountain protection ordinance.
Savannah Riverkeeper is a 501 (c) (3) non-profit organization whose mission is "To protect the water quality of the Savannah River, the integrity of her watershed, and to promote an enlightened stewardship of this unique heritage." Our 3 main goals are to Restore the water quality, Protect the lakes and tributaries and Educate the communities around the basin.
Smart Roads Alliance
The mission of the Smart Roads Alliance is to: "to promote and contribute to a better public understanding of transportation planning and issues at the local, regional, and state levels; and to advocate for community involvement in such planning [as well as viable "alternatives" to the further construction of multi-lane, high speed highways. To provide a short and long term vision for dealing with our dependence on fossil fuels, as it contributes to an auto-centric life style: In the short term: to provide and advocate for alternatives to the proposed southern loop project in Jackson County. In the long term: to advocate for increased public transportation."
Smoky Mountains Hiking Club
Our 600 member hikers and outdoor enthusiasts love the Smokies and all the mountains of East Tennessee. We have an eight-decade tradition of hiking, fellowship, volunteerism, and conservation, following in the footsteps of our early leaders such as Harvey Broome, Carlos Campbell and Jim Thompson. Each week, we conduct hiking outings, primarily in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park and surrounding areas. We also maintain the Appalachian Trail within the park. Club members put in hundreds of hours annually volunteering for trail and shelter maintenance. Our members are also committed to conservation and protection of natural areas by actively organizing opposition to short-sighted development in the Smokies and adjacent areas. If you share our members' passion for hiking and protecting our wild places, you'll find a place to belong with the Smoky Mountains Hiking Club.
Soque River Watershed Association
Southern Appalachian
Forest Coalition
Southern Appalachian Forest Coalition is a coalition
of 22 of the region’s environmental and conservation
organizations working to protect public lands in the
six Southern Appalachian states of: Alabama, Georgia,
South Carolina, North Carolina, Tennessee, and Virginia.
Southern
Environmental Law Center
For the past 20 years, the Southern Environmental Law Center has used the full
power of the law to conserve clean water, healthy air, wild lands, and livable
communities throughout the Southeast. As the biggest, most powerful environmental
organization headquartered in the South, SELC is able to work simultaneously
in all three branches of government, and in all of our six focus states, to comprehensively
address the most urgent problems facing our region. Read
more...
SouthWings
Founded in 1996, SouthWings is a conservation and public benefit aviation non-profit that provides skilled pilots and aerial education to enhance conservation efforts across the Southeast. Our team and our service are unique, combining the knowledge of conservation issues with experienced piloting skills. We enable those we fly to better understand, from an otherwise inaccessible vantage point, the globally significant ecosystems of the Southeast. Through the aerial perspective, SouthWings' service provides experiential understanding of environmental challenges and opportunities for conservation. This perspective fosters understanding of scale/magnitude, and the relationships of cumulative and compounding environmental effects. We provide a means to educate public and elected officials, media, community leaders, researchers and conservation organizations. Read more...
TN Citizens for Wilderness Planning
TCWP (Tennessee Citizens for Wilderness Planning) is dedicated to achieving and perpetuating protection of natural lands and waters by means of public ownership, legislation, or cooperation of the private sector. While our first focus is on the Cumberland and Appalachian regions of East Tennessee, our efforts may extend to the rest of the state and the nation. TCWP's strength lies in researching information pertinent to an issue, informing and educating our membership and the public, interacting with groups having similar objectives, and working through the legislative, administrative, and judicial branches of government on the federal, state, and local levels. Read more...
The Wilderness Society
Our Mission: Deliver to future generations an unspoiled
legacy of wild places, with all the precious values
they hold: Biological diversity; clean air and water;
towering forests, rushing rivers, and sage-sweet, silent
deserts.
Towns County Homeowners Association
Trout Unlimited, Rabun Chapter
Upper Chattahoochee Riverkeeper
Upstate Forever
Upstate Forever promotes sensible growth and the protection
of special places in the Upstate region of South Carolina.
The membership-based, nonprofit organization covers
nine counties (Anderson, Cherokee, Greenville, Greenwood,
Laurens, Oconee, Pickens, Spartanburg, and Union),
and we have three main programs: Land Trust, Sustainable
Communities, and Clean Air and Water.
Western North Carolina Alliance
WildSouth
"Protecting
the Natural Heritage of the Southeast:"
SABP is a non-profit regional organization dedicated
to empowering citizens to appreciate, defend, and restore
the native biodiversity of the Southeast. SABP seeks
permanent protection for the region's public lands
and sustainable management of private lands. The group
pursues its goals through public education, legal advocacy,
and grassroots organizing
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