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19-May-1998 
98183 
 
    Students at Presbyterian School Clean up Stream 
 
    by Genie Addleton 
    Rabun Gap-Nacoochie School 
 
RABUN GAP, Ga.-Rabun Gap-Nacoochee School students, faculty and staff spent 
the afternoon of May 6 improving a section of Sutton Branch stream, which 
runs through the 1,300-acre campus of this northeast Georgia prep school 
that is related to the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.). 
 
    "We'll fence back our cattle and then do some replanting of native 
vegetation and work on the stream bed itself," said environmental science 
teacher Terry Seehorn.  The project is part of a comprehensive conservation 
plan for the entire campus, which includes pasture land for the school's 
Limousin cattle farm and its equestrian program. 
 
    Nearly all 175 students in the Upper School, grades 9-12, worked May 6. 
The Middle School, with 60 students in grades 7 and 8, will also spend an 
afternoon on the project later this month.  "Rabun Gap-Nacoochee School has 
an institutional commitment to environmental stewardship," said headmaster 
Greg Zeigler.  "By the time school is out at the end of May, every student 
and every teacher and staff member will have gotten their feet wet, 
literally, in this conservation project." 
 
    Rabun Gap-Nacoochee School has enlisted the help of three agencies to 
address environmental issues.  Doug Towery, district conservationist for 
the Natural Resources Conservation Service in Blairsville, Ga., is working 
with the school to create a conservation plan.Wayne Swank and other 
scientists at Coweeta Hydrologic Laboratories, Otto, N.C., will monitor the 
effects of the Sutton Branch project on water runoff and quality and on 
soil properties.  The Little Tennessee Watershed Association, chaired by 
Brian Hyder, also of Otto, has provided financial support for this project. 

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