Voices from the Trail
Category: Stewardship
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…
A Thanksgiving Toast
A week later, as I am still digesting the last of the turkey and shaking off the dust of a tryptophan haze, it is obvious to me that there is a lot to be thankful for here at the NFCT. …
90-miler: Vitamin I, blisters, and hungry eagles
The NFCT C-4 Crew (Mike Opuszynski, Erik Townsend, Christy Edgren-Opuszynski, Uncle Norm Simpson, Uncle Mike D, Chloe the Collie, Scout the Beagle) at the finish line. What an experience! I am amazed at how a region can come together to…
The 90-miler: A first timer’s perspective
I have got to say I am a bundle of excitement this morning! Two nights ago I had non-stop dreams about the 90-miler, in one I got to the Old Forge starting line and realized that I had forgotten my…
Wet Wally or Wet Wally?
Wet Wally? or Wet Wally (Chris Gill-You should add this to your Outhouse of the NFCT blog!) This season I was bestowed an honor I never thought I would achieve, I had a portable toilet named after me. I…
Saranac Lake Demolition
Written by Nick Olson-NFCT 14-week Summer Stewardship Intern When you think of The Northern Forest Canoe Trail and the stewardship interns, smoke and destruction is the last thing you think of. Rather than constructing carefully planned structures and improving the…