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:
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Wednesday, November 12th, 9:00 am to 11:00 am - Today we're teaming up with the North Yarmouth Parks Committee to clear an overgrown trail at Chandler Brook Preserve, where RRCT holds a conservation easement.
We’ll walk across the South Field and reopen the overgrown South Brook Trail. Click here for a trail map. We’ll clear a primitive trail corridor, around 6’ wide x 8’ tall with a 24” wide trail tread. We’ll trim overhanging branches, remove brush from the trail (there’s more shrubby honeysuckle), and rake the trail tread. If there’s extra time, we can work on cutting back invasive multiflora rose along the field edge.
RRCT will bring loppers, hand saws, a pole saw, and rakes to share. Feel free to bring personal tools that may be helpful. Don't forget a water bottle, work gloves, and wear blaze orange (it’s hunting season).
Parking: We'll meet at the trailhead parking lot at 1409 North Road, North Yarmouth. When you see a blue "Chandler Brook Preserve" sign, take a right onto a gravel driveway. Stay left as the driveway forks. The parking lot is at the end of the driveway, just before a railroad crossing and kiosk.
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Wednesday, November 19th, 9:00 am to 11:00 am - TBD
Wednesday, November 26th - No Trail Crew for Thanksgiving
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*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.
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Wednesday, November 12th, 9:00 am to 11:00 am - Today we're teaming up with the North Yarmouth Parks Committee to clear an overgrown trail at Chandler Brook Preserve, where RRCT holds a conservation easement.
We’ll walk across the South Field and reopen the overgrown South Brook Trail. Click here for a trail map. We’ll clear a primitive trail corridor, around 6’ wide x 8’ tall with a 24” wide trail tread. We’ll trim overhanging branches, remove brush from the trail (there’s more shrubby honeysuckle), and rake the trail tread. If there’s extra time, we can work on cutting back invasive multiflora rose along the field edge.
RRCT will bring loppers, hand saws, a pole saw, and rakes to share. Feel free to bring personal tools that may be helpful. Don't forget a water bottle, work gloves, and wear blaze orange (it’s hunting season).
Parking: We'll meet at the trailhead parking lot at 1409 North Road, North Yarmouth. When you see a blue "Chandler Brook Preserve" sign, take a right onto a gravel driveway. Stay left as the driveway forks. The parking lot is at the end of the driveway, just before a railroad crossing and kiosk.
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Wednesday, November 19th, 9:00 am to 11:00 am - TBD
Wednesday, November 26th - No Trail Crew for Thanksgiving
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*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.
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