Trail Crew
Trail Crew meets every Wednesday from 10am to noon, 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:
Wednesday, July 2nd, 10:00 am – 12:00 pm – Join us at Intervale Preserve’s Lower Village to do some trail maintenance and install a yardarm sign! This preserve could use growing season upkeep. We’ll cutback overhanging branches and leaning trees, do some aesthetic weed whacking, improve trail signage, and install a brand-new yardarm sign at the access point at the intersection of Church Rd and Gloucester Hill Rd.
RRCT will bring loppers, hand saws, a pole saw, the yardarm post and signage, shovels, a level, a weedwhacker, a chainsaw, and other tools that may come in handy. Come prepared with sunscreen, bug spray, lots of water, work gloves and hiking boots!
Parking: The primary legal point of access is a trail that heads downhill from the intersection of Church Rd and Gloucester Hill Road. Park at the church parking lot at 19 Gloucester Hill Road, New Gloucester, where we will meet and walk to the preserve together.
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Wednesday, July 9th, 10:00 am – We’re back at River Elf Trail in New Gloucester! The first 500 ft of the trail along an overgrown farm road has been mulched, and the piles of brush around the parking lot have been chipped.
We’ll tidy up the trail corridor, spread out the woodchips and level the trail tread, put up blue trail markers, and cut back invasive plants along the field edge and trail. Next to the parking lot we’ll install a brand-new kiosk with signage!
RRCT will bring hand saws, loppers, pole saws, rakes, hammer and plastic blazes, shovels, post hole diggers, level, tamper, the kiosk and signage, and other tools that may come in handy. Come prepared with sunscreen, bug spray, lots of water, work gloves and hiking boots!
Parking: The 4-car trailhead parking lot is across the street from 401 Cobbs Bridge Rd, New Gloucester. The rest of us can park along the road shoulder, on the same side as the parking lot.
Wednesday, July 16th, 10:00 am - Join us at Granite Falls Preserve in North Yarmouth to build a bridge! More details to come.
Friday, July 18th, 10:00 am – Continue bridge building at Granite Falls Preserve in North Yarmouth! More details to come.
Wednesday, July 23rd, 10:00 am - Join us at River Elf Trail in New Gloucester to build a bridge! 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, you must notify RRCT at Info@RRCT.org, and RRCT will cease to further use your image or footage for any new materials going forward.
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RRCT will bring loppers, hand saws, a pole saw, the yardarm post and signage, shovels, a level, a weedwhacker, a chainsaw, and other tools that may come in handy. Come prepared with sunscreen, bug spray, lots of water, work gloves and hiking boots!
Parking: The primary legal point of access is a trail that heads downhill from the intersection of Church Rd and Gloucester Hill Road. Park at the church parking lot at 19 Gloucester Hill Road, New Gloucester, where we will meet and walk to the preserve together.
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Wednesday, July 9th, 10:00 am – We’re back at River Elf Trail in New Gloucester! The first 500 ft of the trail along an overgrown farm road has been mulched, and the piles of brush around the parking lot have been chipped.
We’ll tidy up the trail corridor, spread out the woodchips and level the trail tread, put up blue trail markers, and cut back invasive plants along the field edge and trail. Next to the parking lot we’ll install a brand-new kiosk with signage!
RRCT will bring hand saws, loppers, pole saws, rakes, hammer and plastic blazes, shovels, post hole diggers, level, tamper, the kiosk and signage, and other tools that may come in handy. Come prepared with sunscreen, bug spray, lots of water, work gloves and hiking boots!
Parking: The 4-car trailhead parking lot is across the street from 401 Cobbs Bridge Rd, New Gloucester. The rest of us can park along the road shoulder, on the same side as the parking lot.
Wednesday, July 16th, 10:00 am - Join us at Granite Falls Preserve in North Yarmouth to build a bridge! More details to come.
Friday, July 18th, 10:00 am – Continue bridge building at Granite Falls Preserve in North Yarmouth! More details to come.
Wednesday, July 23rd, 10:00 am - Join us at River Elf Trail in New Gloucester to build a bridge! 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, you must notify RRCT at Info@RRCT.org, and RRCT will cease to further use your image or footage for any new materials going forward.
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