Morning Metro: “Bacon Dangler” Hired, Fernbank Forest Lease to End, and “Go Right”
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Anybody know what’s in the works for the Fernbank Forest if it’s not leased to the Science Center? I like going over there occasionally with the kids for some free fun and a nice hike through the woods, and it would be a shame it were were no longer accessible to the public in the same way.
The museum folks said they are considering implementing a usage fee or restricting access to paid museum visitors.
Ugh. That’s what I was afraid of. It’s their property, so it’s their right to do that. But membership/admission to the Fernbank Museum is pretty expensive, so that would restrict access to the Forest quite a bit, and I’d guess it wouldn’t bring much extra revenue to the Museum.
The Fernbank Science Center and the Fernbank Museum are different entities. The Science Center is part of the DeKalb school system.
Our family attends a nature night class at the Science Center. As far as we know, the forest located by the Science Center is still open to the public, but a walk in the forest with a naturalist from the Science Center is now prohibited by Fernbank, Inc..
Our nature night class used to have indoor class time, then go into the forest with a naturalist from the Science Center. Now we still have indoor class time, but now just see the locked gate which leads to the forest.
Quite a bad move by Fernbank, Inc.. They took the forest from our nature class.
My family goes to a nature night class at Fernbank Science Center. We used to have indoor class time then go to the forest for walk with a naturalist from the Science Center.
Now that Fernbank Inc., decided not to renew the lease, we just have indoor class time and are barred from entering the forest area at the Science Center.
I am really disappointed in the Sierra Club’s opposition to the TSPLOST, perhaps because I respect the group and usually agree with their positions. Moving the TSPLOST this far down the road (pun intended) has been a hurculean feat. Having worked close up with legislators for the better part of a decade, I know how fast their attentions turn and how quickly they become skiddish. If TSPLOST fails in July, there will be no Plan B, and it is very impractical and foolhardy for the SC to suggest otherwise. By opposing metro-Atlanta’s only real hope for public transportation expansion because they believe TSPLOST has too much balance with regard to road expansion vs. public transit, SC is guaranteeing that Atlanta will never have the public transport expansion that SC supports.
It’s too bad MARTA is turning those railcars around next to East Lake Station instead of heading your way.
Any bill that draws opposition from both the Sierra Club and the Tea Party can’t be half bad. I hear the Dekalb NCAAP is against it as well. If I find out that the Christian Coalition and PETA are against it I’m all in.
Moderates of the world, unite.
I hear ya. But I’m waiting for Rick Santorum and Planned Parenthood to weigh in!
Seriously– “bacon dangler”??? If one of us had said that, DM would’ve moderated it!
and DM did! That was the post DM “wasn’t comfortable with”, that nonetheless went viral.
Heh! So I ended up not missing the naughty post after all!!