NYNJ Trail Conference Trail Work, April 3

Please read the message below from Jeff Mergler, Executive Director of JORBA and all around nice guy. We'll try to keep you updated on future NYNJ Trail conference dates - as Jeff says, the better our relationships with groups like these become, the more likely they will be supportive of multi- use trails.

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Hi folks, if you would like to help out one of the Trail Conference crews this Saturday, they are working in Norvin Green as described below.

Full disclosure: this is a hiking only trail. If you have a problem with that, don't take it out on Karen or her husband Frank who are leading the crews. Karen and Frank are great people, own bikes themselves and are very supportive of multi-use. They just happen to work in Norvin Green which has a hiking only designation. That is not their doing or fault.

In any case, if you do enjoy Norvin Green by foot I wanted to pass this along to you. I am also a Delegate at Large on the NYNJ Trail Conference and I want to stress that there are a good number of folks in that organization that are sympathetic to multi-use trails and our relationships are getting better every year. It is for this reason that I want to offer this opportunity to our volunteers in case they are so inclined to help. Please support Karen and Frank if you can.

Happy Trails,
Jeff Mergler

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We will be out THIS SATURDAY April 3rd to cut the remaining section of the Manaticut Point Connector trail located in upper Norvin Green State Park. Please feel free to join us.

We will meet at 9:30am at the upper end of Crescent Drive in Ringwood, NJ. From West Brook Road, turn onto Magee Road, Left up Burnt Meadow Road, and turn on the second left for Crescent Drive. This is a hiking only trail as Jeff pointed out and only a short segment is left to complete between the Lake Sonoma trail and the Hewitt-Butler trail. Only a little over 1/4 mile is left to complete and will complete the loop up to Maniticut Point. The work entails a little chainsaw work (I'll bring mine along), running a power pruner (to cut down the blueberry bushes), clipping, raking, and nailing blazes to the trees.

Please bring:
- work gloves
- lunch/drink
- energy and enthusiasm

We will be clipping, pruning, raking, blazing trees and establishing the trail. Please let me know if you'd like to come so we can have enough tools ready and notify you in the event of cancellation.

Thanks!
Karen Schoof

RSVP - karen@kaysweb.com