I’m passing on a message from Gary of the Montara Mountain Trail Volunteers, please help if you can.
“In the face of budget cuts and their resulting threats to parkland, several people are floating the idea of resurrecting Trail Day (TD). You’ll recall this local effort to put in a few hours, one Saturday morning each month, to help repair the trails, clean up brush and do whatever needs to be done to help maintain McNee Ranch. TD was a terrific community effort and great fun.”
“If you use this incredible resource to hike, bike, walk dogs, ride horses why not give a few hours of easy labor each month to help maintain it? Even if you don’t use McNee often but value its capacity to preserve nature and give wildlife a place to thrive, please join us. In a real sense, McNee is our commons—we all benefit from it. How about giving back just a little and getting a lot in return.”
Since then, representatives of the Montara Dog Walkers, the Coastside Horse Council, and the Montara Mountain Chain and Sprocket Society, along with park officials, have met and put together a plan. The consensus is to meet on the first Saturday of each month to join in a community effort to maintain the trails, facilities and other resources at McNee. With the state’s crushing budget shorfalls, few funds remain to keep the parks from ruin. We need to step in here if we hope to enjoy continued use of McNee, a valuable community resource for all to enjoy.
Details for the first Trail Day
Date: Saturday, December 5, 2009
Time: 8:00 a.m. – 11:30 a.m.
Place: McNee Ranch by the pump house (next to the trail bridge over Martini Creek behind the horse ranch)
What to bring: A thermos of coffee and work gloves
What will be supplied: Coordinators, tools
What we’ll work on: 1) Trail prep for the rains 2) Signs – installation and restoration
Transportation: The gate to Hwy 1 will be unlocked, you can drive in and park or better yet, hike or ride a bike
Questions: Contact Gary at .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
We also will have a brief discussion about meeting times and coffee/lunch options for future TD sessions.
Please help if you can, Montara Mountain needs you!
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