I have long been accustomed to seeing soldiers and signs of their activity in the vicinity of Camp Merrill, the Ranger training base in the Etowah watershed, and as far away as Hickory Flat in the Noontootla watershed. They even use the Appalachian Trail. But until this year, to my knowledge, they have never operated as far away from the camp as Cooper Creek.
Back in June, Georgia ForestWatch District Leader David Govus came across two soldiers on foot and one in a pickup truck near Bryant Creek, a tributary of Cooper Creek. Talking with them, he learned that they were scouting out potential helicopter landing zones in the area because, as the sergeant said “the colonel wants to step out.”
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"This is a military road" sez # one. "No, it's a Forest Service road" sez # two. No, it's owned by the g-d f'n PUBLIC the last I looked. I've had just about enough of chained off roads in the north GA mtns, in fact, one of my buddies regularly snips said locks and tosses 'em or cuts the chain and leaves the lock.
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