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Winter 2013 New York-New Jersey Trail Conference — Connecting People with Nature Since 1920 Volunteers Tackle Big Post-Sandy Trails Clean-Up Challenge Put to Park Annual Award Winners Service Powerline OK We honor the people who TC joins lawsuit in defense do so much to give us a great of AT, Delaware Water Gap trail system. READ MORE ON PAGE 3 READ MORE ON PAGE 6 Winter 2013 New York-New Jersey Trail Conference — Connecting People with Nature since 1920 www.nynjtc.org Volunteers Tackle Big Post-Sandy Trails Clean-up urricane Sandy hit our region on sawyers have been out on what seems a dai - We would like to thank people by October 29 & 30. It transformed ly basis in Harriman State Park and parks name, but so many of you do extraordi - Hmany parks and trails and disrupt - in Bergen County. North Central Jersey nary work quietly. For now, we list the ed the lives millions of people. And yet… crew members cleared 32 blowdowns in crews we know have been busiest cleaning their first clean-up day at Wawayanda State up after Sandy; many have been augment - “On Nov. 2, Steve Z. and I took 3 Avon Park (there have been many more since). ed by new volunteers eager to help. Some volunteers to the Victory Trail in Harriman Volunteers from member club AMC NY- volunteers have gone out even when they S.P. It was only a few days since Hurricane North Jersey have been heading out day had no power at home (“going out to Sandy, and we did a lot of post-storm clean after day to Harriman State Park, clearing chain saw to get warm” said one). You up, removing branches and other debris. At miles of trails and stripping big blowdowns know who you are, and we thank you. the end of the day Steve and I took care of for the chain sawyers. • West Hudson South Chain Saw Crew 7 blowdowns. On Nov. 5 we went to the • North & North Central Jersey Chain Bangle Hill section of the LP in the south - Saw Crews ern Catskills, did some clipping, and took 30 blowdowns cleared • Orange–Rockland Long Distance care of 30+ blowdowns. In November we E Trail Crew K N here, 32 there: our A did a lot of chain sawing to undo the Sandy R • Westchester Trail Tramps F B damage—trees down everywhere! … on O • Ward Pound Ridge Reservation volunteers have been K A Nov. 19 we took care of at least 15 blow - J Maintaining Crew downs on Hook Mtn. Chris Reyling, Steve hard at work since Sandy. As of early December, volunteers and park • AMC NY-North Jersey West Hudson Zubarik, and I took care of 24 blowdowns staff had cleared hundreds of downed trail volunteers on the AT and LP in Harriman SP on Nov. trees from our region’s trails, with • Appalachian Trail Management hundreds still to go. 28. There were a few inches of snow on the As with previous major storms, full Committees for New Jersey and ground that day.” cleanup will take months. Some areas, par - trails. Damage in the Catskills was spotty, Orange-Rockland ticularly in North Jersey, are described as although the summit of Slide was described • Mountain Pinks Trail Maintaining And so it went, and continues to go devastated beyond recognition. Trails in as covered by blowdowns and the Fox Hol - Crew throughout our region. That report from Stokes State Forest, Ringwood State Park, low Trail was reported blocked by a tangle • Park staff throughout the New York- Long Path co-chair Jakob Franke was simi - and Wawayanda State Park, including the of downed trees for a mile (rangers cleared New Jersey region lar to the steady stream of reports from Appalachian Trail, took the brunt of the it over several days). Detailed assessments • And other NY-NJ Trail Conference other trail volunteers throughout the damage. In New York, Harriman seemed of trail damage were still in progress as of Certified Sawyers region. Teams from the West Hudson to be hardest hit, with pile-ups of downed the deadline for this issue, with trail clear - South Chain Saw Crew and other certified trees obliterating long sections of some ing going on simultaneously. New York Chooses access to it from the north bank, John Park Staff, Volunteers Replace Mack reported it to be open. Trail Conference Big thank-you to: the PIPC managers and To Head Invasives Popolopen Gorge Trail Bridge field staff who were so helpful with this project, and to the following volunteers: Program in Lower Link for the Timp-Torne, 1777W, and 1779 Trails back in place Duane Card, David Chase, Robert Chen, Hudson Valley Bob Cohn, Evan Colgan, Dove Comeau, “The bridge is finished.” position. Jolly Rovers crew volunteers con - Chris Connolly, Alfred Curtis, Walt New York State Dept. of Environmental So announced John Mack, West Hudson tributed substantially in the “flying” Daniels, Bob Fuller, Dennis Hickey, Fred Conservation (DEC) in October chose the South Trails Chair, on November 28, portion of the work and installing much of Howley, Chris Ingui, Joan James, Sue Lent, Trail Conference to coordinate its Lower 2012. John had been working with man - the remaining structure. Later, other volun - Jesse Levin, John Mack, Debbie Melita, Hudson Valley Partnership for Regional agers and staff at Bear Mountain State Park teers completed the bridge assembly, which Kerry O'Brien, Tom Oliver, Greg Paret, Invasive Species Management (PRISM) to replace the 62-foot long trail bridge in included inserting and tightening the 372 Rich Raschdorf, Ron Rich, Cliff Robinson, program beginning in 2013. The Lower the Popolopen Gorge, a key link between decking bolts by hand. Jr., John Rowen, Noel Schulz, Gail Sher - Hudson Valley program is one of eight cre - trails north of the Gorge and the rest of The bridge was structurally complete by man, Anne Marie Tallberg, Yulena (no last ated by DEC across the state with the aim Bear Mountain-Harriman State Park. The November 28, and on December 6, upon name), and Steve Zubarik. of facilitating regional partnerships among bridge, a major volunteer accomplishment completion by PIPC staff of a temporary organizations working to manage invasive when it opened in 2004, was destroyed by species. Each regional program is adminis - flooding after 2011’s Hurricane Irene. It tered by a local not-for-profit, with has been sorely missed by hikers. funding provided by the Environmental The Palisades Interstate Park Commis - Protection Fund. sion (PIPC) purchased the replacement “We’re very proud to be selected as coor - bridge, which required assembly, and also dinator of this important program by New provided extensive aid in preparing for its York State,” says Trail Conference Execu - installation. PIPC staff trucked materials to tive Director Ed Goodell. “Our 92 years of the site, rebuilt the bridge foundations, and collaboration with multiple agencies, our installed scaffolding in the Popolopen experience in working with thousands of Creek. Volunteers from the Trail Confer - volunteers on all aspects of trail steward - ence and our member clubs completed the ship, and our recent achievements in bulk of the bridge installation over several developing a trails-focused invasive species days in late November. Eddie Walsh (Tahawus Trails) supervised the set-up of continued on page 2 rigging and the “flying” of the trusses into VOLUME XL, N UMBER 1 ISSN 0749-1352 R E L L U F B O B Washed out in 2011 by Hurricane Irene, the new Popolopen trail bridge was in place by December 2012. Page 2 Winter 2013 Feedback Maps to Live By When I saw the trail in 2008, I was Wanted to thank you, because every day, amazed. What on earth could the trail VOLUME XL, NO.1 WINTER 2013 Thanks for the Honor we LIVE by your maps. Indestructable. builders have been thinking? The weather GEORGETTE WEIR EDITOR The Basha Kill Area Association (BKAA) Fascinating, even when you’re sitting at happened to have been dry so there was LOUIS LEONARDIS GRAPHIC DESIGNER was thrilled and extremely honored to home with a cup of coffee. Makes us want not a large flow of water coming over the TRAIL WALKER (USPS Permit #970-100) receive the Trail Conference’s prestigious to paint a star on every beautiful sight we falls. However, in the winter and spring, I (ISSN 0749-1352) is published quarterly by the New York-New Jersey Trail Conference as a Leo Rothschild Conservation Award, pre - come across (and if you have the maps, you am sure the conditions are icy, and there benefit of membership. Subscriptions are sented by Jakob Franke, Long Path know what I mean) …What says “Free - are heavy water flows. Why do this? At available to libraries only at $15.00 a year. Committee Co-chair and BKAA member, dom” more than a hike in Harriman, some point, the New York-New Jersey Periodical postage paid at Mahwah, N.J., and additional offices. Postmaster: Send address at our 40th anniversary celebration on Norvin Green, Sterling, or Fahnestock? Big, Trail Conference offered alternative changes to the address below. Opinions expressed Sept. 8. (See Fall 2012 TW , page 1.) big Thank-you for your service, from dogs routes. An attempt had been made, prob - by authors do not necessarily represent the policy The BKAA has a long-standing connec - who cannot speak and humans who can. ably at least five years earlier, to scout out or position of the Conference. Contributions of tion to the Trail Conference, beginning in —CharlieDog and Friends an alternative route about one quarter of a typed manuscripts, photos, and drawings are welcome. Manuscripts may be edited for style 1989, when we were asked to participate Trail Conference Facebook page, November 19 mile to the left of the falls.
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