Resource Education

• K-8 Parks as Classrooms Education Program - $ 50,000
  
• Expand Parks as Classrooms Curriculum - $ 169,300
  
• Teacher-Ranger-Teacher Program - $ 7,200
  
• Oconaluftee Visitor Center Exhibits - $ 254,000
  
• Remount Sugarlands Visitor Center Exhibit Specimens - $ 3,000
  

Resource Management and Science

• Support Appalachian Bear Rescue Center - $ 12,875
  
• Black Bear-Resistant Food Storage System - $ 4,000
  
• Hemlock Woolly Adelgid Control - $ 100,000
• Balsam Woolly Adelgid Control - $ 2,500
  
• Prepare 3 Elkmont Historic Structures Report - $ 25,000
  
• Complete & Print Elk Management Plan - $ 2,500
  

Facility Management

• Purchase Knob Building and Landscape Upkeep - $ 26,800
  
• Cataloochee Visitor Facilities - $ 18,500
  
• Townsend Wye Visitor Facilities - $ 4,100
  
• Roaring Fork Visitor Facilities - $ 8,300
  
• Bat Removal in Cades Cove and Palmer Churches - $ 20,000
  
• Russell Field Shelter Rehab - $ 12,000
  
• Trails Forever Trail Rehab - $ 16,700
  

Resource and Visitor Protection

• Support Appalachian Trail Ridgerunner - $ 30,200
  
• Support Roadside Assistance Volunteers - $ 7,600
  

New Projects

• SAMAB Support - $ 2,500
  
• Reagan Tub Mill Preservation Work - $ 29,100
  
• Elk Bugle Corps Volunteers - $ 5,000
  
• Chainsaw Training for Volunteers-In-Parks - $ 1,200
  
• Park Headquarters Office Historic Furnishings - $ 20,000
  
• Install Staff Restroom Greenbrier Ranger Station - $ 10,000
  
• Trails Forever Endowment Commitment - $ 400,000
  
• Expanded Trails Forever Commitment - $ 200,000
  

Total Approved Projects as of 11/16/2009 - $ 1,442,375


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