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March/April 2008 www.nynjtc.org Connecting People with Nature since 1920 March/April 2008 New York-New Jersey Trail Conference — Maintaining 1,683 Miles of Foot Trails In this issue: New East Hudson Map Set...pg 3 • Staff Reorganization...pg 3 • Trail Work Season Begins...pg 5 • Monitor Invasives...pg 7 Sign Up for New Trails Project at Wonder Lake S.P. in Putnam County By Gary Haugland 2008 CAMPAIGN onder Lake State Park in New York’s Unmarked woods roads lead to the lake topography and scattered ravines. Most of eastern Putnam County has been and other parts of the park. For the time the site is covered with mixed hardwood, Wgenerally overlooked and unknown being, however, there are no maps; hikers ledges, seasonal streams, and rivulets; locat - since its acquisition by New York State Parks in and other users essentially are on their own. ed in the southeastern portion of the 1998. Ten years later, in mid-January 2008, the A kiosk at the park entrance stands blank, property is a series of meadows surrounded park was still unmentioned on the State Parks ready for a map that will feature trails yet to by stone walls. There are abandoned website. The problem during most of this time be constructed. orchards and, of course, Wonder Lake. has been one of access; the park was essentially Recently, Bill Bauman, manager of Woods roads cross the property and are landlocked by surrounding private property. Wonder Lake State Park as well as of most suitable for equestrian use; a network of trails for other park users needs to be built. One of these will be the Highlands Trail, which is being extended through Put - nam County to the Connecticut border; it March has arrived and that means it is time will form a core hiking trail through Won - to go out and find new members for our der Lake S.P. from which loops and side second annual Member-Get-A-Member trails can be built. campaign! As announced in the last Trail The Trail Conference is planning for this Walker , from March 1 through May 31, burst of activity by holding several trail 2008, the New York-New Jersey Trail Con - workshops in Putnam County this spring: ference challenges its members to Layout and Design (April 4 and 5), Main - encourage their friends, family, neighbors, tenance 101 (April 12), and Construction colleagues, and others to join the Trail and Restoration (April 13). [See the com - Conference. Each current member who plete list of spring workshops, including a sponsors a new member will become eligi - R Maintenance 101 in New Jersey, on page ble for special recognition and prizes! I E W 5.] Field sessions will be conducted at The members who enlist the most new E T T E Wonder Lake S.P. after classroom meetings members during the MGM Campaign will G R O E in facilities at nearby Fahnestock S.P. win this year’s prizes, which are: G A hiker enjoys a view of wintry Wonder Lake in January. Members—especially those living in the • Grand Prize: Camping Equipment area east of the Hudson River—are encour - Package from Campmor. In 2006, however, the Trust for Public Hudson Highlands and Fahnestock State aged to take advantage of these workshops • Second Prize: One-night, mid-week Land and the Open Space Institute negoti - Parks, invited the Trail Conference to help and help us design and build the trails and stay in a Jr. suite and dinner for two ated the purchase of 106 adjacent acres, develop this trail system. Wonder Lake fill the maintainer slots that will open when at the Phoenix Restaurant at the simultaneously expanding the park to 963 State Park presents the Trail Conference the trails are completed. Emerson Resort and Spa. acres and providing the needed public with an excellent opportunity to establish Join us, and be prepared to fall in love • Third Prize: Lunch and hiking passes for access. From a parking area on Ludding - new trails for hiking, and to serve as a with this recent addition to the New York two at the Mohonk Mountain House. tonville Road, which runs parallel to natural laboratory for upcoming trail State park system. It’s not hard to win. Last year’s winner Interstate 84 between exits 17 and 18, a workshops. won the top grand prize by recruiting just single marked trail, blazed yellow, now The park, the bulk of which was once a seven new members! extends into the heart of the park. country estate, is characterized by rugged For each new member you recruit, you will have one entry into our drawing for various outdoor goods donated by our Volunteer Profile a member about a year ago, and, very about a decade working as a set designer in retail partners. Items you might win quickly, a volunteer. New York City for stage and television, he through the raffle are: Thesis Project A recruitment ad in Trail Walker caught had “no knowledge specific to trail work. I • 3-day free rental of outdoor equipment his attention. Larry Wheelock, then trails had to get involved.” Last summer he packages from EMS, Paramus, NJ Leads Grad Student director (now West Hudson regional coordi - worked with several trail crews, including • Daiwa Executive Travel Pack Fishing nator, see page 2) was looking for volunteers with the West Hudson North Crew on the Pole and Reel from Matt’s Sporting to Trails Work to help create a manual for building trail Stillman Bridge project on Storm King Goods, Haverstraw, NY structures. Both parties recognized a perfect Mountain and with Ollie Simpson, who • Overnight camping package that match. Steever incorporated the manual was building picnic tables at shelters on her includes a Slumberjack ® sleeping bag, Andrew Steever “bumped project as part of his master’s thesis; the Trail section of the AT in Dutchess County. “I sleeping pad, lantern, and pot set into” the Trail Conference Conference benefited from his professional had to find out not only what the structures from Ray’s Sport Shop in North while doing research for and academic design background. continued on page 3 Plainfield, NJ a thesis project on his “Andrew really jumped into this proj - • $50 gift certificate to Hudson Valley way to a master’s ect,” Wheelock says. “He got out in the Volunteers Needed to Complete Outfitters in Cold Spring, NY degree in industrial field and learned what was needed. Then Trail Structures Guidebook • $50 gift certificate to Basecamp design. “I was he came back and developed a chapter of You can help by providing notes and Adventure Outfitters in Basking investigating how the manual and a template for developing Ridge, NJ people interact other chapters. We now have good docu - photos of past projects; research • Wooden Walking Stick from Blue with the outdoors, mentation for a project that can be used by materials, codes and resources; or Ridge Mountain Sports, Madison, NJ particularly casual volunteers in the field. They won’t have to take on a trail structure and get • $20 gift certificate to Dover Sport users such as hik - start from scratch in terms of design when directly involved in the creation of Online in Dover, NJ ers,” the New they need to build a picnic table. The mate - York City-based rials and tools that are needed are listed a set of plans and instructions. The more new members you recruit, the Steever recalls dur - right in the manual, along with step-by- Contact [email protected] or better your chances are at winning any of ing a January phone step instructions on how to build these 201-512-9348, ext. 17 to indicate your these great prizes! interview. “That led items. It’s great. interest or get more information. To learn how to participate, see our me to looking at “Andrew’s work also gives us a template special insert in this edition. organizations that that can be used to document other struc - VOLUME XXXV, N UMBER 2 ISSN 0749-1352 focused on those tures that are commonly built on our Non-Profit concerns. That’s how trails,” says Wheelock. “And it helps estab - US Postage Paid Permit No. 1239 I bumped into the lish standards for volunteer-built structures. Bellmawr, N.J. Trail Conference.” What we need now are additional volun - He became teers who can follow Andrew’s template and compile the necessary information.” Andrew Steever was studying industrial Andrew notes that he embarked on this design when he volunteered to help develop project as a trails novice. Though he was a structures manual. studying industrial design at Pratt after Page 2 March/April 2008 Tim Sullivan Honored for 61+ Years with PIPC VOLUME XXXV, NO.2 MARCH /A PRIL 2008 Chief Ranger Timothy Sullivan has been agency and has left a lasting legacy.” assisting with all phases of the agency’s GEORGETTE WEIR EDITOR on the job with the Palisades Interstate Sullivan began his career with State Parks acquisition of Sterling Forest. LOUIS LEONARDIS GRAPHIC DESIGNER Parks Commission (PIPC) for an incredi - in 1946 as a seasonal park patrol officer. In “Most any time, when our maintainers The TRAIL WALKER (USPS Permit #1239) ble 61-plus years. Throughout the course 1965, he was named chief ranger of the have asked for something special, like signs (ISSN 0749-1352) is published bi-monthly by the New York-New Jersey Trail Conference as a of that time he has been a good friend and Palisades region. Throughout six decades, at road crossings, or the crews have request - benefit of membership.
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