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News: 26 Jun 2008
Save the date for our final statewide 50th anniversary event
IAPTF members are welcome and encouraged to "Fall into the Future" Oct. 4th and 5th, with two days of compelling speakers and stimulating discussions about the future of the Ice Age Trail and IAPTF, along with a fall colors hike on the beautiful Chippewa Moraine Segment. The event starts with breakfast Saturday morning, October 4th and ends with lunch on Sunday afternoon, October 5th. A variety of lodging options will be available for Friday and Saturday nights. The bulk of the event will take place at Beaver Creek Reserve (http://www.beavercreekreserve.org/) in Fall Creek, Wisconsin, about 12 miles east of Eau Claire. A complete event description, agenda and registration form will be posted here in the coming weeks...check back frequently!
23 Jun 2008
Flooding has damaged and/or closed several segments of the Ice Age Trail
Recent heavy rains and flooding in the southern third of Wisconsin have damaged several segments of the Ice Age Trail. If you were planning on using any Ice Age Trail segments in this region, in particular those near Devil's Lake State Park and the city of Portage, please consult the "Trail Updates" section for the IAPTF chapter in which you are interested in hiking. Click here to select the appropriate chapter from a state map. Damage reports are still coming in from chapter leaders. If no recent updates are noted in the "Trail Updates" section, please call the respective Chapter Coordinator for the latest info. Click here to select the appropriate chapter from a state map, then select "Contact Chapter".
22 May 2008
Watch a video on Ice Age Trail volunteering
Curious about what it's like to volunteer to help build the Ice Age National Scenic Trail? Then click here to view a wonderful documentary about Ice Age Trail volunteers that aired recently on Wisconsin Public Television's "In Wisconsin" program.
(The link will take you to a WPT page with some background info on the documentary. You can view the documentary by clicking on "Watch Building the Ice Age Trail..." in the middle of the page, under "related links".)
30 Apr 2008
New merchandise galore in the IAPTF online store
We have some exciting new merchandise items in our online store, including new hats, mugs, shirts and hot-off-the-press, fully updated and revised editions of our popular guidebooks, the Ice Age Trail Atlas and the Ice Age Trail Companion Guide.
To order, simply grab your Visa or MasterCard and head to our online store.
(For the guidebooks, if you would prefer to pay with a check, you can click here to download an order form.)
Also new in terms of Ice Age Trail merchandise it Along Wisconsin's Ice Age Trail, a coffee-table book featuring the work of photographer Bart Smith. The book can now be ordered through UW Press by visiting http://www.wisc.edu/wisconsinpress/books/4325.htm or calling 800-621-2736.
The book features 120 color photos of the Ice Age Trail. Bart's stirring images get an assist from the likes of Congressman David Obey (who wrote the foreword), Mike Dombeck, former chief of the U.S. Forest Service (author of one of the six essays covering a wide scope of Ice Age Trail topics), and Wisconsin's first poet laureate, Ellen Kort.
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