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, September 10th, 9:00 am – Join us at Littlejohn Island Preserve in Yarmouth! We’ll focus on removing invasive Asiatic bittersweet vines throughout the preserve. We'll also replace a few deteriorating boards on the Cousins-facing shoreline trail. This trail crew session will be from 9 am to 11 am.
The bittersweet is easily pulled by hand, but for the larger vines, loppers and hand saws come in handy. To repair the bog bridging, RRCT will bring shovels, screws, a driver, Sawzall, and a crowbar for getting out old nails. Feel free to bring your own tools and work gloves. Don’t forget a water bottle, sunscreen, bug spray, and sturdy shoes!
SPECIAL PARKING: drive to the very end of Pemasong Lane, Yarmouth. The service gate will be unlocked. Go through the gate and park straight to end, a little bit to the right in the grass.
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Wednesday, September 17th, 9:00 am - TBD
Wednesday, September 24th, 9:00 am - TBD
Wednesday, October 1st - No Trail Crew today, Hanae will be on vacation.
*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, September 10th, 9:00 am – Join us at Littlejohn Island Preserve in Yarmouth! We’ll focus on removing invasive Asiatic bittersweet vines throughout the preserve. We'll also replace a few deteriorating boards on the Cousins-facing shoreline trail. This trail crew session will be from 9 am to 11 am.
The bittersweet is easily pulled by hand, but for the larger vines, loppers and hand saws come in handy. To repair the bog bridging, RRCT will bring shovels, screws, a driver, Sawzall, and a crowbar for getting out old nails. Feel free to bring your own tools and work gloves. Don’t forget a water bottle, sunscreen, bug spray, and sturdy shoes!
SPECIAL PARKING: drive to the very end of Pemasong Lane, Yarmouth. The service gate will be unlocked. Go through the gate and park straight to end, a little bit to the right in the grass.
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Wednesday, September 17th, 9:00 am - TBD
Wednesday, September 24th, 9:00 am - TBD
Wednesday, October 1st - No Trail Crew today, Hanae will be on vacation.
*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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