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CLARKS HILL, SC - Trail work, fish attractors, lake shoreline cleanup, and bluebird boxes will be the focus of National Public Lands Day at Lake Thurmond on Saturday, September 29.

Thousands of volunteers in every state will put their hands to work in a coast-to-coast effort to improve and enhance our treasured lands. From Plymouth Rock to the Golden Gate, the Tallgrass Prairie, the Rockies, the Rio Grande—volunteers will join this national day of caring for their lands.

Volunteers will build bridges and trails, improve habitat for wildlife, plant trees, remove invasive plants that threaten fragile natives, protected natural, historic and cultural resources—and much more. Volunteers will work in parks and forests, at rivers, lakes, and wetlands, at cultural and historic sites and in their own neighborhoods.

Here's what you can do to get involved:

1. Use the interactive map to find a work site near you.
2. Contact a federal, state or local land manager to learn what you can do to organize a National Public Lands Day event to involve your community.
3. Participants also often join Girl Scouts, Boy Scouts, conservation and environmental organizations for a day of working and learning on public lands. Call a local chapter or organization to get details.
4. Do you enjoy taking photographs? Participate in the annual National Public Lands Day photo contest

For more information, contact Jay Weidman USACE, 510 Clarks Hill Highway, Clarks Hill, SC 29821 (800) 533-3478.

Thurmond Lake is one of the southeast's largest and most popular public recreation lakes. Built by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers between 1946 and 1954 as part of a flood control, hydropower, and navigation project, authorized purposes now include recreation, water quality, water supply, and fish and wildlife management. Each year, millions off people utilize the many public parks, marinas, and campgrounds conveniently located around the lake to pursue a variety of outdoor recreational experiences -making Thurmond one of the 10 most visited Corps lakes in the nation.

Thurmond Lake is a man-made lake bordering Georgia and South Carolina on the Savannah, Broad, and Little Rivers. The lake is created by Thurmond Dam located on the Savannah River twenty-two miles above Augusta Georgia and 239.5 miles above the mouth of the Savannah River. The lake extends 39.4 miles up the Savannah River, 29 miles up the Little River, and 6.5 miles up the Broad River in Georgia, and 17 Miles up the Little River in South Carolina, at normal pool elevation, Thurmond Lake comprises nearly 71,100 acres of water with a shoreline of 1200 miles.

All the sites in South Carolina include: