WPLN News Archive; Beaman Park Development (Adrienne) 8 18 99; News Archive 7/29/99-8/24/99

this saturday the group of twenty one at hikers twelve through a crystal clear creeks to explore the rugged terrain of being in part a fifteen hundred acres and develop woodland northwest davidson county they were led by state aquatic specialist jamie smith and this section was more water flowing through the ground and on streets that look like they go dry during the summer we also their workaday on his land development changes the way that the water rises and all the plays have a lot of things that this particular group of tigers were the only ones who got to learn about being in our treasures this moment next month to sign up although the city owned the land since nineteen ninety six that's when sally been donated six hundred fifty thousand dollars to the city for its purchase it hasn't yet opened the park to the public lead been in as sally been inside and president and owner of being in automotive group fortunate that it is not then developed

where people can enjoy the park yet but i'm very hopeful that maybe the next administration will move ahead quickly to find the development art so everybody can start enjoying the bar last month the green waste commission announced approval of a federal and metropolitan funded a two million dollars for the development of stones river greenway mill creek and shelby bottoms once again been in park with not included in this year's budget jim fike is director of metro parks whole armor we called freeman well funded but in reality it's not unusual for me to go and fifteen and twenty years were formative the painting a poem of them i am the rigid in defining a specific year was that we had several that we need to my local boomers that we receive from the federal government would pad to the transportation be old and have to be re olson ways that were considered of public transportation system that would include biking or skating more pedestrian waste being imported steel

hopper arctic and we do feel obligated to their regional fashion began the development that regard fike says securing the area for the general public would take at least a million dollars in seed dorman is the president of the friends of benin park she says she understands it takes a long time to open a park to the public but wants to take quicker steps to get ready we get all wrapped up in what we're going to build them and how it's gonna be and who's gonna come which are going to do and we forget about some times that the reason that we're there is because of the trees and because of the creek and because of the hill and not because there's been some survey done this says such a such percent of national eons would rather go hiking on the weekends that's not why you do this you do this because you trying to take care of that little piece of grain and because when those people do come out they're going to have an experience that's just like no other while they wait for finding dormant group has been working on several projects to get the park ready they run the monthly hikes and have been making trails for the past two years

bob brown hiked the trails this saturday with his dog trouble he was the first president of the tennessee players association if perfectly police commissioner there's a total of the corinthian church should you go through that with a magician when she says that in addition to being environmentally attractive land theme park posts a federally listed where plant poppy eager sunflower this little lonely and students are listening this is julia suggests is with the state's division of natural heritage the importance of protecting the plan is to provide the opportunity for recovery much like integration dumbest thing of alter ego set nation is an estuary would mean that the park would be

protected under state law in perpetuity it's more let's bring into the picture in terms of prescribing the management and then also in terms of actually implementation and then cooperate in with other agencies to get the the friends of beeman part continued to apply for a monthly permit an early september the parks department plans to hold a ceremonial ribbon cutting to publicly celebrate being inspected the city or national public radio it