Voices from the Trail
Category: Stewardship
Highlights from Highgate Waterway Work Trip:
The crew pre-log ladder This week’s waterway work trip in Highgate Vermont aimed to put the finishing touches on the campsite and portage trail along the Missisquoi River. Previous work trips in years past installed two beautiful sets of lumber…
Rangeley, Maine, we miss you already…but we’ll be back soon!
It is very necessary that I begin this entry by thanking the community of Rangeley, Maine for their hospitality. It all started as we met Ron Haines on Wednesday at the Rangeley Lakes Regional Logging Museum. For a crew that…
Buttermilk Falls WWT 2010
Hello Readers in Cyber-space: This weeks Waterway Work Trip Leader Kevin Large coming to you. We had a great week, in all aspects; weather, interns, and volunteers. Out at the buttermilk falls site the other interns and I…
Stewardship Intern Training Week#1: 2010
Our first week of training has concentrated on leadership skills along with other professional development aspects that a well rounded trail worker would need to be successful in the field leading a crew. It has been a very heartfelt week…
The Life of an Intern…
Hello! I’m Susan, the pre-season intern. I’ve been here for two weeks now with just one more week remaining in my internship. I’ve been working with Walter to prepare for this year’s paddling season and the Stewardship interns that will…
The Coast Guard’s 2010 PaddleSmart Event
It has been a whirl wind few weeks as we have been preparing for the season! We have secured a very solid Stewardship and Program Intern Crew, performed many site visits to prepare for the full project schedule this season,…
The Mansonville Kiosk Committee
I would like to introduce you to the newly formed Mansonville Kiosk Committee. I had the opportunity of sitting down with this group to discuss the process involved in developing an NFCT Kiosk. After great discussion (I was inspired to…
Do you smell freshet?
The snows are melting in the north country, a nice gradual melt so far, evenly feeding the streams and mighty waters. It feels like an early thaw, but weather being what it is I haven’t pulled the Hawaiian shirts out…
2010 Scouting Report: Richford, VT River Access Project
Well, keep your fingers crossed, folks. Another grant request proposal is in the mail. The hopes are that we will receive the funding necessary to pull off a comprehensive river access project in the town of Richford, VT. Richford is the…
Project Scouting for 2010: Maine-Number 5 Bog Access Work
Here comes the beginning of the NFCT’s equivalent of baseball’s Hot Stove Report (the active off-season). The winter season around the NFCT office is just as intense as the field season, but stewardship activities turn from being covered in mud to buried in project…