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, October 22nd, 9:00 am to 11:00 am –Join us at a brand new RRCT property, Dédəbonsagk Preserve in North Yarmouth! This 20-acre preserve was donated to RRCT by Rob Wood and Gay Peterson in December 2024. The name Dédəbonsagk, pronounced deda-boon-sock, derives from the Penobscot word tétəponsak, which translates in English to “they walk side by side” – which Rob and Gay have done on the property for decades.
Today we will be installing new signage along the existing 1.5-mile network of mowed trails. 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. At least four of the signs will be installed in the meadow, so we’ll be digging holes for the signposts.
RRCT will bring signage and posts, screws and an impact driver, a circular saw, shovels, post hole diggers, levels, and other tools that may be needed. Feel free to bring your own tools and work gloves. An extradriver or two would come in handy.
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.
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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, October 22nd, 9:00 am to 11:00 am –Join us at a brand new RRCT property, Dédəbonsagk Preserve in North Yarmouth! This 20-acre preserve was donated to RRCT by Rob Wood and Gay Peterson in December 2024. The name Dédəbonsagk, pronounced deda-boon-sock, derives from the Penobscot word tétəponsak, which translates in English to “they walk side by side” – which Rob and Gay have done on the property for decades.
Today we will be installing new signage along the existing 1.5-mile network of mowed trails. 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. At least four of the signs will be installed in the meadow, so we’ll be digging holes for the signposts.
RRCT will bring signage and posts, screws and an impact driver, a circular saw, shovels, post hole diggers, levels, and other tools that may be needed. Feel free to bring your own tools and work gloves. An extradriver or two would come in handy.
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.
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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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