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, April 22nd, 9:00 am to 11:00 am - Today we will improve Intervale Preserve’s Route 231 Royal River water access site in New Gloucester! This is one of the locations that RRCT will be upgrading this summer with a geocell grid and periodic infiltration steps leading to the river, thanks to a Maine Trails Program grant.
We’ll cut back encroaching vegetation from either side of the trail down to the Royal River using loppers, hand saws, and a brush cutter. There are vines climbing all over the place which can be easily pulled and cut down. In the nearby area, there’s invasive shrubby honeysuckle and multiflora rose to remove.
Along the Royal River, patches of native dogwood are holding in the banks. We can cut live dogwood stakes 2-3 ft in length, trim the side branches, and plant them along the riverbanks. Loppers and hand pruners are perfect for collecting live stakes.
RRCT will bring safety glasses, loppers, hand saws, hand pruners, a brush cutter, and thin wooden stakes and rubber mallets for driving in the live stakes. Bring work gloves and personal tools that may come in handy!
Park along the wide road shoulder of Route 231 by the bridge over the Royal River, nearby 568 Intervale Rd, New Gloucester. Click here for the GPS location.
Wednesday, April 28th - No Trail Crew. RRCT staff will be at the Annual Land Conservation Conference.
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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, April 22nd, 9:00 am to 11:00 am - Today we will improve Intervale Preserve’s Route 231 Royal River water access site in New Gloucester! This is one of the locations that RRCT will be upgrading this summer with a geocell grid and periodic infiltration steps leading to the river, thanks to a Maine Trails Program grant.
We’ll cut back encroaching vegetation from either side of the trail down to the Royal River using loppers, hand saws, and a brush cutter. There are vines climbing all over the place which can be easily pulled and cut down. In the nearby area, there’s invasive shrubby honeysuckle and multiflora rose to remove.
Along the Royal River, patches of native dogwood are holding in the banks. We can cut live dogwood stakes 2-3 ft in length, trim the side branches, and plant them along the riverbanks. Loppers and hand pruners are perfect for collecting live stakes.
RRCT will bring safety glasses, loppers, hand saws, hand pruners, a brush cutter, and thin wooden stakes and rubber mallets for driving in the live stakes. Bring work gloves and personal tools that may come in handy!
Park along the wide road shoulder of Route 231 by the bridge over the Royal River, nearby 568 Intervale Rd, New Gloucester. Click here for the GPS location.
Wednesday, April 28th - No Trail Crew. RRCT staff will be at the Annual Land Conservation Conference.
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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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Trail Crew at Mèmak Preserve, April 2026