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Who Maintains the Trail? Well, it is mostly done by ‘volunteer club members' and occasionally with outside groups and organizations. Materials required to maintain the trail are mainly purchased with funds raised through ‘club memberships', as well as some outside donations from various sources. Trail maintenance is an on-going project due to trail usage and natural weather deterioration.
Throughout the year, though mainly in the Spring and Fall seasons, ‘work parties' are organized by the club to go out and repair sections of the trail as well as the development of new sections of trail.
For example ….
On July 22, a ‘work party' was held to repair a section of the trail near Inglewood. Fourteen volunteers came out to help build some ‘turnpikes' in three very wet areas and put in some ‘water bars' to prevent erosion. ‘Turnpiking'? what we do is put in larger logs, cut from ‘dead' trees, along the side of the trail and in between put smaller pieces to form a ‘corduroy' base, fill with dirt and top with wood chips. If you look at the pictures you will get a good idea of this work. Now, volunteering for ‘trail maintenance' does not require any skill; it is not overly scientific; it just needs willing people to come out and give a hand on the project. At all our ‘work parties', we have ‘experienced trail workers' there to provide direction. All we ask is that they do work within their capability, enjoy themselves and, at the end of the day, feel a sense of accomplishment of the work done.
If you are interested in coming to a ‘work party', please contact our webmaster, who will forward the information to our ‘Trail Maintenance Volunteer Coordinator'. Also, if you have group that would be interested in helping us out, do likewise. There is always work to do and we welcome anybody to join us …”many hands make light work”. |
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