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Lennox Woods a walk into historyUnnoa Wood*. th* 150 mm Eii* Taaaa virgin timb.rt.nd pra-**rvo In north Rad River County, celebrated it* fint birthday with th* Katur* CDec S. with a field trip for 35 Inter-•■UdguMtafromlSdlffWMlrltlaa including Corpu* Chrlati and Snyder, Okla.JafTWolgal. aniiUnt director fcir th* Ten* natui* Conservancy. Jalml* Ingold, now preserve in-t*m* working at Clymer'e Mradow in Hunt County and Dav# Monty ary of Pari* Junior Col-l*g* and chairman of Tridtn* Prai-rl* managing com mitte* were loader* for th# widki ng tour into Lanna* Wood*.Martha Unno. of CUrkavtll. who donated th* Unno. Wood, along with h.r late brothers. David and Bagby. wa* alao on th* lour alcrg with a relative. John Bagby from Corpua Chrlstl.Montgomary provtdad a Hat ctgiving aporlaa. common mam*, family, human ua*. mldlif. uaa arid availability through aood, borTaa, atalka, leaves. ahoot* or Th* group* Indantl-fWd mora than 35 d.(r«anl apacte* on th* walk and found an unu.ua! Anofo, a chamalaon-llka beard which changad frcm brown to groanCM. Bouillon. naUva cl th. ara*. telkad about th. dd read, or traca, which run* north to aoulh through th* trad, lb aid that th* road waa rut by Andraw Jacket*) Tuggl* In th* 1840a. Mr Tuggl* n..d*d a route Into Clarlroll* from hi* horn* noar whrr* i* now th* Tuggl. Spring* Om.tery *o h* cut hi* road aouth acroo* th* bottom* to )oln th* Old Jon*aboroRoad in front of lh*Jam**M.Ritchi* horn* cabin Th* cabin bacam* th. Raulaln plan In 1»S4. Th* point th* Tuggl* Road on***. Pecan Bayou on th* Lannoa tract i»miMitfwiMi/ piuriuwu ■ un • * — — -* 4 * 4 * * * 4 *Holiday Greetingsfrom ..J .l./T.fcalled Tuggb'* Cro**ong Thi. old traca I* ovargrown today th* lc* lolly pin*, ahortbaf pin*, many vartetl** of oak. rad mipl*. Iron-wood. dogwood and *»v*ml vane-tea of ahruba and vln** Unno.population of th. globally andan. garad Arkaitea. nuadrw u*. and an oKurranco of Wilde novl'* ~dgv. not pravloudy found in Tea**.Th* Tain* For**t Service, which date* old trcwo in Tnaa, ha* record of a loblolly pin* c*i th* Unnoa tract dating bock to 1848. and of a pet oak dating bock toMr Raulaton r-lated th* following *tory which waa pa*a*d downfreon hi* gr*atlt;T*al-grondfath*r. Georg* W. Raul*ton. (1795-1859)After Gaorg* wa* diachargtd from th* **rvlf* near N*w Orbana aarly In 1815, h* mod* hi* way up R*d Rlvar to P*can Point. (Pecan Point waa formed by a loop in Red River which wa* cut tramveriy at IUfaaaabyPacanBayou.lt wn.lhc alto of a buffalo craiung and an ancient Caddo Village. It wa* alao th* at* of a v*ry *arly white settle BUM.) Georg* spent th* aummer of1818 making aaplerlng and hunt-ing trip* out ct Paean Pant into whtr* la now rath contra! Red River County. H* aaid th* oily route* of travel war# buffalo trail*. INdian pathaandatraam* llelrav-alac by dug out boat up Pecan Bayou atepp ng at CTortrgatohunt and sapor* th* aurroundlng for eat. Some deecendant. of George have ■peculated that tine* Tuggl** croaamg ia probably th* ail* o a buffalo or Indian croeoing, George poaMbly vial ted tha ana in 1815 Weigel .poke of tha annual WildflowfT Day at Tndan* on May 20.1989. and plan* we*, itarted to have th* afternoon tour of Clymer Meadow followed by a Sunday afternoon tour of Lenrux Wood* to aeothapreaorvt In bloom for ageing.Th# Tea*. Nature Coneer-vanry la an affiliate of th* Nationalorganic*tlcm. a non profit renaer-vaUon organ!cation trying to pre aarv* unique and MgnlAcant natural are *■ and th* flora and fauna dapandant upon them. Purth*r in-fcemauon is available from th* Texa* Nature Cooeervancy. P.O. Boa 1440, 350 Mavwick Walk, Suite 200. San Antonio. Team 75295-1440.
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