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Assembly accepts city’s bid to buy woods: The city’s $1.3 million offer to purchase 67 acres on the east side of Mount Sequoyah has been accepted by Mount Sequoyah Assembly Inc. and merely awaits approval from the Fayetteville City Council at its April 1 meeting. Northwest Arkansas Times, March 22, 2003.
Preserving nature a crisis, leader says: Preserving natural areas in Fayetteville has reached a "crisis situation," the cofounder of a local conservation group said Sunday in Fayetteville. Northwest Arkansas Times, January 27, 2003.
Times Editorial : Conflict of interest?: The notion that Mayor Dan Coody has a conflict of interest in pursuing the city purchase of wooded land atop Mount Sequoyah is a groundless ad hominem allegation that only distracts from the worthy community goal of preserving Sequoyah Woods. Northwest Arkansas Times, January 18, 2003.
Times Editorial: A chance to pursue opportunity: The Fayetteville City Council, including the three new members for whom tonight will be the first meeting, must not misinterpret the proposed resolution before them concerning the woods atop Mount Sequoyah. Northwest Arkansas Times, January 7, 2003.
Group urges support for saving Sequoyah Woods: A local conservation group is seeking taxexempt, nonprofit status in conjunction with its effort to raise $300,000 toward the purchase of 70 wooded acres that the group’s chairman described Monday as a "wonderful urban forest" on Mount Sequoyah’s east side. Northwest Arkansas Times, January 7, 2003.
Preservation Group Backs Coody On Land Proposal: Activists want to help city buy 70 acres on Mount Sequoyah. The Morning News, January 7, 2003.
Council To Look At Mount Sequoyah Land Purchase: First meeting of new year includes abbreviated agenda. The Morning News, January 6, 2003.
Tour temptation: Members of the Fayetteville City Council and about 50 area residents trekked through the 70 wooded acres on Mount Sequoyah’s east side Saturday in an effort to learn more about the property the council is considering purchasing. Northwest Arkansas Times, January 5, 2003.
Fayetteville Councilors Consider Options For Land: Conservationists Want City To Buy, Preserve Acreage. The Morning News, January 5, 2003.
Times Editorial : A worthy effort: The Fayetteville City Council should authorize Mayor Dan Coody to negotiate the purchase of 70 wooded acres atop Mount Sequoyah so that such an option can be strongly considered in the near future before Fayetteville’s urban forest is swallowed by development. Northwest Arkansas Times, January 2, 2003.
Hillside haggling: Mayor Dan Coody assured Fayetteville City Council members Tuesday that his proposal to purchase 70 wooded acres on Mount Sequoyah’s east side with public funds would not result in personal financial gain by increasing the value of lots in a nearby residential subdivision he developed. Northwest Arkansas Times, January 1, 2003.
Coody Urges Council To Give Nod: For Negotiating Mount Sequoyah Land Deal. The Morning News, January 1, 2003.
Seeing green: Mayor Dan Coody’s proposal to use city funds to buy 70 acres on Mount Sequoyah will be discussed by the City Council for the first time today during its agenda-setting session. Northwest Arkansas Times, December 31, 2002.
Residents, Groups Eye Sequoyah Partnership: Goal Is To Help City Buy, Preserve Wooded Acreage. The Morning News, December 18, 2002.
Fayetteville group seeking to save Mount Sequoyah Woods, asking for public support: With two offers already on the table from developers seeking to build in the Mount Sequoyah Woods, preserving the area has become a "critical situation," representatives from an area group said Tuesday. Northwest Arkansas Times, December 18, 2002.
Mount Sequoyah Meeting Set After City Makes Offer: Groups Asked To Help Find Funding To Preserve 70-Acre Tract. The Morning News, December 17, 2002.
Conservation group to promote Mount Sequoyah purchase: The Fayetteville Natural Heritage Association has invited the public to a meeting at 6 p.m. today at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church to build support for the purchase and preservation of 70 wooded acres on Mount Sequoyah’s east side. Northwest Arkansas Times, December 17, 2002.
Vice or virtue?: Twenty months after forming to preserve greenspace, the city’s tree and trails task force has decided to purchase three wooded parcels of land in south Fayetteville, and on Friday, Mayor Dan Coody requested the group partner the remainder of its funds with city money for a down payment on 70 acres on Mount Sequoyah. Northwest Arkansas Times, December 14, 2002.
Times Editorial: Fayetteville’s forest: It’s official: The urban forest belonging to the Mount Sequoyah Assembly board of trustees is up for sale, which means 70 of the remaining forested acres in Fayetteville — and atop the town’s most well-known and centrally located natural structure — are hereby under the gun. Northwest Arkansas Times, December 14, 2002.
For sale by owner: Trustees vote to sell 70 acres east of Mount Sequoyah Assembly. Northwest Arkansas Times, December 7, 2002.
Trustees vote to sell Mount Sequoyah land: Conservationists Hope Forest Can Be Protected. The Morning News, December 8, 2002.
Interested residents take a hike through Mount Sequoyah property: A fallen tree, held above the ground by nearby trees, precariously hangs in the balance in the woods just east of Mount Sequoyah Methodist Assembly, much like the fate of the insulated acreage. Northwest Arkansas Times, November 10, 2002.
Group mobilizing to preserve Mount Sequoyah’s east side if trustees decide to sell: A group of Fayetteville residents evaluating ways to preserve 70 wooded acres on Mount Sequoyah’s east side took the good news with the bad Thursday as they chatted with a city administrator and the district superintendent of the United Methodist Assembly that owns the property. Northwest Arkansas Times, November 8, 2002.
Times Editorial : Green legacy: Looks as though we were off base when we suggested recently that the mayor’s Tree and Trails Task Force had made no progress on finding greenspace for the $450,000 they were handed two years ago. Northwest Arkansas Times, October 28, 2002.
Nearly 70 acres appraised at $1.3 million: Environmentalists Worry About Forest Land Donated To Assembly In 1922. The Morning News, October 28, 2002.
Times Editorial : Saving the forest: The 70 acres of urban forest on the east side of Mount Sequoyah strike us as the perfect plat of land to preserve for future generations. Northwest Arkansas Times, October 16, 2002.
Citizens rally to preserve acreage: What was intended to be a Ward 1 meeting Monday night became a forum for citizens throughout the city to rally in support of preserving 70 wooded acres on the east side of Mount Sequoyah. Northwest Arkansas Times, October 15, 2002.
Greenway guru: Enthusiasm for saving 70 wooded acres on Mount Sequoyah’s east side ebbed and flowed Tuesday as a Missouri greenway guru told members of the Fayetteville Natural Heritage Association that preserving open space for recreational use is timeconsuming but quite possible with community support. Northwest Arkansas Times, October 9, 2002.
Assembly acreage: About 70 wooded acres immediately east of Mount Sequoyah Assembly’s serene hilltop campus has been appraised at $1.3 million, and a group of individuals is interested in saving the property from future development, the retreat center’s director said Friday. Northwest Arkansas Times, October 5, 2002.
Education a constant for Methodist assembly: The first brochure for the Mount Sequoyah Methodist Assembly in Fayetteville encouraged readers to enjoy the “bracing summer climate and beautiful scenery” of the Ozarks at this religious retreat. The Morning News, April 4, 2000.