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Relationship,” lecture Tuesday night April 3 at 7 p.m. in McAllister Auditorium on the Berry College campus.

Harris is a native of Muskogee, Oklahoma and is presently president of the Georgia Trail of Tears Association. He is an active member of both the Cobb County Master Gardeners and the Georgia Native Plant Society and was one of two keynote speakers at the 2012 National Cherokee Ethnobotany Conference in Tahlequah, Oklahoma.

The following year he received the Conservation Award from the Daughters of the American Revolution.

Chieftains has joined with the Environmental Studies program and the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Berry College to sponsor the free program.

Trail grants for Calhoun, Rockmart, Whitfield County

The Georgia Department of Natural Resources approved more than $3 million in grants for 19 communities around the state. More than 50 eligible applications requesting approximately $8 million were taken in during this grant cycle.

Calhoun-Gordon County received $200,000 for the Rivers to Ridge-Model Mile; the Whitfield County Board of Commissioners received a similar $200,000 grant for the Buzzards Roost/Grant Farm Mountain Bike Trail and Rockmart received $95,000 for a new Church Street Trailhead.

“The Recreational Trails Program provides residents and visitors all across Georgia more opportunities to explore our state’s unique and diverse natural beauty,” said DNR Commissioner Mark Williams in a press release. “These new grants will give our local cities and counties greater access to construct and maintain a multitude of trails for various purposes.”

DNR administers the Recreational Trails Program under the auspices of the Federal Highway Administration. Funding for the program is appropriated by Congress in national highway legislation.