Trail Crew
Trail Crew meets every Wednesday from 9 am to 11 am, except during bad weather and around holidays. Details on upcoming Trail Crew sessions will be posted here. Our work focuses on RRCT’s many public access properties, sometimes spending several weeks in a row at the same site. RRCT is also happy to help out at partner properties when Trail Crew is available.
There is a job for everyone, no matter your shape, skills, or strength. Join us the one week you have time or interest, or put Trail Crew on your calendar as your regular Wednesday morning ritual. It's a great way to experience a new preserve, get to know someone new, and learn new trail work techniques. Trail Crew tackles a variety of trail projects including clearing trail corridors, invasive plant removal, route finding and trail alignment, trail marking, constructing bog bridging and bridges, and improving signage. RRCT brings specific tools that will be helpful. We encourage volunteers to bring personal tools as well. Hand saws, pole saws, and loppers are favorites. Crew members should bring a water bottle, and wear sturdy shoes, work gloves, and the right clothes for the day.
Trail Crew is led by RRCT's Stewardship Director Hanae Garrison. If you have any questions or concerns, you can reach me at (973) 255-7513 or Hanae@RRCT.org
There is a job for everyone, no matter your shape, skills, or strength. Join us the one week you have time or interest, or put Trail Crew on your calendar as your regular Wednesday morning ritual. It's a great way to experience a new preserve, get to know someone new, and learn new trail work techniques. Trail Crew tackles a variety of trail projects including clearing trail corridors, invasive plant removal, route finding and trail alignment, trail marking, constructing bog bridging and bridges, and improving signage. RRCT brings specific tools that will be helpful. We encourage volunteers to bring personal tools as well. Hand saws, pole saws, and loppers are favorites. Crew members should bring a water bottle, and wear sturdy shoes, work gloves, and the right clothes for the day.
Trail Crew is led by RRCT's Stewardship Director Hanae Garrison. If you have any questions or concerns, you can reach me at (973) 255-7513 or Hanae@RRCT.org
Upcoming Trail Crew Sessions:
*************************************
Wednesday, August 12th, 9:00 am to 11:00 am – Today we will be at Dédəbonsagk Preserve in North Yarmouth! This 20-acre preserve was donated to RRCT by Rob Wood and Gay Peterson in December 2024. It contains a 1.5-mile network of mowed trails through the 3.5-acre meadow and woods. The trails extend beyond the preserve into Rob Wood and Gay Peterson’s adjacent private land. Visitors are welcome to explore these trails while respecting posted signs at intersections of trails leading to their residence.
First, we’ll install a new medium-sized kiosk to replace the current signage on Milliken Road. Then we’ll walk through the trail network, brushing back the trails along the way. There’s also plenty of invasive plants to remove along the road boundary and in the woods. We’ll keep our eyes peeled for blueberries to snack on!
RRCT will bring new kiosk, hand saws, loppers, and other tools other tools that may come in handy. Feel free to bring your own tools andwork gloves. Don’t forget a water bottle, sunscreen, bug spray, and sturdy shoes!
Parking: The trailhead is on Milliken Rd between the intersection with Cluff Road and the railroad tracks. Parking is available on the road shoulder of Milliken Rd. Click here for the Google Maps location.
**********************************
Wednesday, August 19th, 9:00 am to 11:00 am - Join us at Littlejohn Island Preserve in Yarmouth! Today we’ll focus on controlling the spread of invasive plants throughout the preserve. We’ll team up with Erik Lema, a licensed herbicide applicator from Basswood Environmental who will follow behind and treat the stumps we cut.
Asiatic bittersweet is the most prevalent invasive plant here, growing throughout the understory, climbing trees, and encroaching on the field edges and along the trail. The smaller bittersweet vines can be pulled up by the roots, while the larger vines should be cut with loppers and hand saws. There’s also some shrubby honeysuckle and glossy buckthorn spread out along the coastline and around the trailhead. RRCT will bring loppers, hand saws, an extractagator, and other tools that may come in handy. Feel free to bring your own tools and workgloves. Don’t forget a water bottle, sunscreen, bug spray, and sturdy shoes!
SPECIAL PARKING: Drive to the very end of Pemasong Lane in Yarmouth, past RRCT’s parking lot and through the stone gates marked “Private Way.” At the end of the road, turn right, and the service gate will be open. Go through the gate and park in the grassy area.
***********************************
Wednesday, August 26th, 9:00 am to 11:00 am - TBD
Wednesday, September 2nd, 9:00 am to 11:00 am - TBD
Wednesday, September 9th, 9:00 am to 11:00 am - TBD
Wednesday, September 16th, 9:00 am to 11:00 am - TBD
**********************************
*Photography and Filming Note: Your attendance at Trail Crew may be photographed or filmed and your attendance indicates consent to have any images or footage featuring you at the event to be used for RRCT-related materials and outreach. Should images or footage appear in marketing materials that you don’t wish to be featured in, email Hanae@RRCT.org, and RRCT will cease to further use your image or footage for any new materials going forward.
****************************
Wednesday, August 12th, 9:00 am to 11:00 am – Today we will be at Dédəbonsagk Preserve in North Yarmouth! This 20-acre preserve was donated to RRCT by Rob Wood and Gay Peterson in December 2024. It contains a 1.5-mile network of mowed trails through the 3.5-acre meadow and woods. The trails extend beyond the preserve into Rob Wood and Gay Peterson’s adjacent private land. Visitors are welcome to explore these trails while respecting posted signs at intersections of trails leading to their residence.
First, we’ll install a new medium-sized kiosk to replace the current signage on Milliken Road. Then we’ll walk through the trail network, brushing back the trails along the way. There’s also plenty of invasive plants to remove along the road boundary and in the woods. We’ll keep our eyes peeled for blueberries to snack on!
RRCT will bring new kiosk, hand saws, loppers, and other tools other tools that may come in handy. Feel free to bring your own tools andwork gloves. Don’t forget a water bottle, sunscreen, bug spray, and sturdy shoes!
Parking: The trailhead is on Milliken Rd between the intersection with Cluff Road and the railroad tracks. Parking is available on the road shoulder of Milliken Rd. Click here for the Google Maps location.
**********************************
Wednesday, August 19th, 9:00 am to 11:00 am - Join us at Littlejohn Island Preserve in Yarmouth! Today we’ll focus on controlling the spread of invasive plants throughout the preserve. We’ll team up with Erik Lema, a licensed herbicide applicator from Basswood Environmental who will follow behind and treat the stumps we cut.
Asiatic bittersweet is the most prevalent invasive plant here, growing throughout the understory, climbing trees, and encroaching on the field edges and along the trail. The smaller bittersweet vines can be pulled up by the roots, while the larger vines should be cut with loppers and hand saws. There’s also some shrubby honeysuckle and glossy buckthorn spread out along the coastline and around the trailhead. RRCT will bring loppers, hand saws, an extractagator, and other tools that may come in handy. Feel free to bring your own tools and workgloves. Don’t forget a water bottle, sunscreen, bug spray, and sturdy shoes!
SPECIAL PARKING: Drive to the very end of Pemasong Lane in Yarmouth, past RRCT’s parking lot and through the stone gates marked “Private Way.” At the end of the road, turn right, and the service gate will be open. Go through the gate and park in the grassy area.
***********************************
Wednesday, August 26th, 9:00 am to 11:00 am - TBD
Wednesday, September 2nd, 9:00 am to 11:00 am - TBD
Wednesday, September 9th, 9:00 am to 11:00 am - TBD
Wednesday, September 16th, 9:00 am to 11:00 am - TBD
**********************************
*Photography and Filming Note: Your attendance at Trail Crew may be photographed or filmed and your attendance indicates consent to have any images or footage featuring you at the event to be used for RRCT-related materials and outreach. Should images or footage appear in marketing materials that you don’t wish to be featured in, email Hanae@RRCT.org, and RRCT will cease to further use your image or footage for any new materials going forward.
****************************
Trail Crew at Mèmak Preserve, April 2026