2023 Service Day Series
Supported by Your Local Ford Dealer
and Bronco Wild Fund

Our 2023 Service Day Series is made possible through the support of your Local Ford Dealer and Bronco Wild Fund. Bronco Wild Fund works to increase access, preservation, and stewardship of the great outdoors and is proud to work with non-profit collaborators around the United States to further their shared mission of connecting people to the outdoors, responsibly.

Learn more at: www.broncowildfund.com

Join us on our next service day on September 23rd at Sweetwater Creek State Park!
Click here to learn more about our Sweetwater Creek State Park Service Day,
supported by Your Local Ford Dealer and Bronco Wild Fund.

Sweetwater Creek Service Day - 09/23/23

Thank you to all the volunteers who joined us for our Sweetwater Creek State Park Service Day in celebration of National Public Lands Day! Thank you to Bronco Wild Fund and your Local Ford Dealer for supporting this project and our 2023 Service Day Series!

Our volunteers made important improvements (trail widening, root removal, gravel grading, and erosion control) to Sweetwater Creek State Park’s white trail, allowing for safer and easier access for users of the Park’s all-terrain Action Track wheelchairs.

From Georgia State Parks: “The Georgia Department of Natural Resources has partnered with the Aimee Copeland Foundation to provide free, high mobility all-terrain track wheelchairs at 10 state parks, historic sites, and a wildlife center. The initiative encourages those with mobility impairments to reconnect with nature, explore nature trails, go fishing, and attend adaptive hunts. All-terrain track chairs are designed with safety in mind, giving Georgians who otherwise might not be able to navigate more difficult types of terrain the ability to hit the trails and easily navigate through mud, water, sand, and snow. Qualifying park visitors can experience a sense of freedom that can be difficult to have in an everyday wheelchair. The chairs can be used for hiking, hunting, fishing, and other outdoor education and recreational activities.”

A massive thank you to the Refugee Women’s Network (RWN) Hiking Group for joining us and providing so much support. We are extremely proud partners of RWN’s Hiking Group and are thankful for their support in giving back to Sweetwater Creek State Park - one of our annual hiking locations.

Woodall Trail Service Day - Atlanta - 06/03/23

Thanks to the generous support of your Local Ford Dealer and Bronco Wild Fund, 28 volunteers with the Georgia Conservancy celebrated National Trails Day by helping to establish the new Woodall Rail Trail Corridor in the Blandtown neighborhood of Atlanta’s Upper Westside. A huge thank you to Groundwork Atlanta and Upper Westside Community Improvement District for their help in this service project. Also, a big shout out to the volunteers from Bank of America, who came out in droves!

From Upper Westside CID: “The Woodall Rail Trail is approximately 3.2 miles and creates a bike and pedestrian connection between the existing Whetstone Creek Trail (future Silver Comet Connector) and the future Atlanta BeltLine Northwest Trail corridor. It offers a predominantly off-road connection through the Upper Westside.”

Volunteers helped support the project by preparing the Woodall Rail Trail corridor for later construction of the paved walk/bike path and future plantings of native plants along Woodall Creek. Work included removal of invasive species such as English ivy and privet, as well as the clearing of trash, debris, and wooded brush.

Woodall Rail Trail is one of many incredible conservation-focused projects funded by the Georgia Outdoor Stewardship Program (GOSP). GOSP was established in 2018 through the Georgia Outdoor Stewardship Act and a constitutional ballot referendum. The program annually dedicates a portion of the state’s tax revenue from outdoor equipment sales to transformational conservation projects in Georgia. The establishment of GOSP was a two-decades-long legislative and conservation priority of the Georgia Conservancy and we are proud of the five-year-old program’s success and excited for the future conservation opportunities that it will support.

After the project, volunteers were treated to refreshing beers at the neighborhood brewery, Steady Hand Beer Co., which was hosting an overlanding meet-up that included some beautiful Ford Broncos.

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Photos by William Brawley
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Video by Chris Hrubesh

TYBEE ISLAND SERVICE DAY - 04/29/23

Thanks to the generous support of your Local Ford Dealer and the Bronco Wild Fund, 20 volunteers with the Georgia Conservancy enjoyed a morning of hard work on the beach of Tybee Island. Tybee Island is one of Georgia’s few developed barrier islands and one popular with beach-goers throughout the year.

Volunteers provided much-needed help to the City of Tybee Island and the Georgia Department of Natural Resources in their efforts to build a more resilient coastline. To do this, volunteers installed 35 sand dune fences in a strategic area of the island’s beachfront - flanking the popular East Gate access point.

Dune fencing on a beach or sand dune can help trap sands and assist in building a new foredune in front of a natural dune, providing additional protection against coastal erosion and flooding, as well as establishing areas prime for sea turtle nests. The 32 new fences that were installed by volunteers are 10 feet long and were strategically placed and angled in a manner to catch sand in the prevailing winds. Dune fencing on Tybee has been an essential part of the City’s beach nature-based management plan and dune restoration after recent hurricanes.