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Chickasaw Kayak and Canoe Association
We are a new kayak and canoe club located in Chickasaw Alabama. Our city was give a $500,000. grant to build piers, launches and picnic grounds on the ChickasawBogue near the Mobile River.
Georgia
Canoeing Association
GCA is a member-operated paddling club with over 800 family and
corporate memberships comprising more than 2000 individuals. Canoeists and
Kayakers of all ages and paddling abilities are equally welcome. Some of
our mutual interests include whitewater river running, creeking and
playboating, river and lake touring, sea kayaking, paddle camp outs and
competition and racing activities.
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We espouse conservation, environmental
and river access issues as well as boating safety and skills development.
Group paddling, training and social activities of all kinds are conducted
throughout the year thanks to the volunteer efforts of our many members
and friends. Membership is NOT limited to Georgia residents.
Hotlanta
Adventures
Hotlanta Adventures is a younger-adult, volunteer-based
club that provides a chance to make new acquaintances and build
friendships while experiencing the adventures of the outdoors and other
similar shared interests. Some excursions include hiking, urban/mountain
biking, whitewater rafting, camping, cabining, canoeing, kayaking,
caving/spelunking, horseback riding, rappelling, rock climbing, fishing,
geocaching, and other outdoor activities.
Tennessee
Scenic Rivers Association
The Tennessee Scenic Rivers Association (TSRA)
is a volunteer organization dedicated to the preservation, protection and
restoration of the scenic, free-flowing rivers of our state. Based in Nashville,
Tennessee, the organization has approximately 1,000 members across the state and
the south.
In June 1966, two friends, Robert Miller and Tony Statler, were
floating the Collins River, fishing for trout. They had heard about the Corps of
Engineers' plans to channelize the river and said to each other, "We can't
let this happen." In September, a group, including Miller, Statler, Don
Bodley, Bill Griswold, Bill Mitchum and Bill and Lee Russell (of Tennessee
Citizens for Wilderness Planning [TCWP]) gathered at Blakemore Methodist Church
in Nashville and formed the Tennessee Scenic Rivers Association.
The group's initial objective was to protect rivers. Together with
TCWP, TSRA campaigned hard for state and national scenic rivers legislation. In
fact Tennessee's Scenic Rivers Act of 1969 was the first such comprehensive act
in the nation. National scenic rivers legislation followed a year later, and
rivers like the Obed and the Big South Fork received national scenic status.
The group began floating rivers like the Collins and Buffalo. Other
group trips followed, and eventually paddlers got the urge for whitewater. Dick
Wooten remembers an early trip on Spring Creek. Describing it as "a
debacle," Wooten declined to name names or provide any further details.
This led to club members seeking out training in canoeing. In 1970
the club offered its first school, one of the first such training events in the
United States. This desire to nurture paddling skills eventually grew into the
instruction program TSRA offers today.
TSRA remains active in conservation issues, joining with other
groups to combat threats to rivers like Dry Fork near Spencer and threats to
entire watershed areas posed by practices like mountain top removal coal mining.
Our members "adopt" streams to monitor health, and we conduct cleanups
on rivers and streams. We enjoy club-sponsored trips year-round and offer
instruction in sea kayak, whitewater canoe, C-1 and kayak, as well as self
rescue, swiftwater rescue, CPR, trip leader seminar and Wilderness First Aid.
But most of all, we enjoy the friendships we form around the issues
that unite us, the rivers we enjoy and the sport that keeps us young. Come
paddle with us.
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