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, May 20th, 9:00 am to 11:00 am - Join us at Littlejohn Island Preserve in Yarmouth! There are a couple of tasks we can focus on:
· Mechanically remove invasive Asiatic bittersweet vines by hand pulling at the base and using loppers to cut larger ones. There’s also some shrubby honeysuckle mixed in there.
· Thanks to volunteer Geoff King, there are 3 new wooden benches by the area we will be parking in. These benches will replace the deteriorating benches at various viewpoints along the trail. We’ll carry the benches to their respective locations and then demolish the old benches using a chainsaw, sawsall, crow bars, log peavy, and other tools. The old bench lumber can be dispersed in the woods or brought back to the truck.
· One of the picnic tables at the preserve has sharpie graffiti on one of the seats. We can use a sander to hopefully grind down the graffiti. 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, May 27th, 9:00 am to 11:00 am - Intervale Preserve Lower Village in New Gloucester. More details to come.
Wednesday, June 3rd, 9:00 am to 11:00 am - TBD
Wednesday, June 10th, 9:00 am to 11:00 am - Thayer Brook Preserve in Gray. More details to come.
Wednesday, June 17th, 9:00 am to 11:00 am - TBD
Wednesday, June 24th, 9:00 am to 11:00 am - Invasive Japanese knotweed cutting at River Elf property in New Gloucester. More details to come.
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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, May 20th, 9:00 am to 11:00 am - Join us at Littlejohn Island Preserve in Yarmouth! There are a couple of tasks we can focus on:
· Mechanically remove invasive Asiatic bittersweet vines by hand pulling at the base and using loppers to cut larger ones. There’s also some shrubby honeysuckle mixed in there.
· Thanks to volunteer Geoff King, there are 3 new wooden benches by the area we will be parking in. These benches will replace the deteriorating benches at various viewpoints along the trail. We’ll carry the benches to their respective locations and then demolish the old benches using a chainsaw, sawsall, crow bars, log peavy, and other tools. The old bench lumber can be dispersed in the woods or brought back to the truck.
· One of the picnic tables at the preserve has sharpie graffiti on one of the seats. We can use a sander to hopefully grind down the graffiti. 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, May 27th, 9:00 am to 11:00 am - Intervale Preserve Lower Village in New Gloucester. More details to come.
Wednesday, June 3rd, 9:00 am to 11:00 am - TBD
Wednesday, June 10th, 9:00 am to 11:00 am - Thayer Brook Preserve in Gray. More details to come.
Wednesday, June 17th, 9:00 am to 11:00 am - TBD
Wednesday, June 24th, 9:00 am to 11:00 am - Invasive Japanese knotweed cutting at River Elf property in New Gloucester. More details to come.
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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