Category: TUWC

George Kaiser Family Foundation Pledges To Preserve Turkey Mountain

Hundreds of people showed up Monday for a town hall meeting concerned they would lose access to the mountain. The news that Turkey Mountain is safe is sure to be a relief.

Bryan Duval, with T-Town Bicycles said, “That’s phenomenal and awesome. That would be the one acceptable solution to what everybody feared, that we would lose this chunk and then we’d lose even more of it.”

100-plus volunteers repair, reroute trails on Turkey Mountain

Michael Patton, executive director of The Metropolitan Environmental Trust, which helped organize the volunteers, said the event was unique because of the wilderness area itself — you can’t just drive a truck up the trails. Crews had to “do it the hard way to keep it wilderness,” Patton said, by using wheelbarrows to carry up gravel and dirt to fill in eroded terrain.