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I just spoke with Debra Clarke who is in charge of the trail system for the Trabuco Ranger District in the Cleveland National Forest. They need our help! She has plenty to do from driving on the trail system and report any issues to a whole list of projects for upgrading Wildomar, the campground at Wildomar and other trails. We have the choice of becoming individual volunteers or as a group. She is sending me two forms which will be the application to become a basic volunteer and the ONLY requirement is that we attend one training session per year. There are two volunteer programs they offer, one requires the one training/orientation course per year and the other is a bit more involved in training and responsibilities but you get to wear a Forest Service uniform and she mentioned something about a federal drivers license ;D
Debra stated that our hours can be joined with the San Bernardino Adopt A Trail program. So what does this mean? For everyone that volunteer at the minimum level, every time you drive to, on and from any trail system in the Trabuco Ranger District, those hours are counted toward our total for awards and recognition. Currently I do about 200 to 400 hours a year myself in that area. I couldn’t even begin to imagine how much Dom spends there...
Official word on Main Divide is November 10 2008 for most of it and a full opening of it after the Blue Light Mine contamination cleanup project is completed. Approximately a few weeks after the 10th.
I don’t recall if it was the basic volunteer or the host program that gives you keys and combinations to the locked gates of closed trails but will find out and post as a follow-up because I’m sure that’s what we all really want isn’t it? The idea behind providing us with the keys and combinations is that we are supposed to run those trails and report back any issues such as illegal fire rings, trail damage, etc… The Forest Service wants us to wheel, behind the locked gates to the closed trails so long as we stay on the trails and report back to them. OMG, that’s way too cool! No more turning around at locked gates.
My thoughts on this oportunity are to maintain course with 3N59A and I think that with one or two more visits, that will be pretty wrapped up, needing only a few monitoring/trash/minor repair runs per year. Plus, snow will be coming there soon and can’t do maintenance there during the snow so I thought we could spend that time focusing our attention on projects in Cleveland National Forest.
Tony, We may want to kind of somehow just join this along with the 3N59A program here and pool all the resources together maybe listing primary people for each forest with an understanding that ALL SoCal FJCruisers volunteers would be secondary volunteers to the other forest. I know I would like to be on the primary list for Cleveland but will definitely be helping with San Bernardino projects as well, because I'm there more than 10 times a year already.
I would like to hear back from everybody that is interested so post up! I need to get an idea of who we can count on, I assume the same people as 3N59A but could be more now that it’s so close.
2008/11/21 UPDATE: Please download the two files and fillout the of-301 form and return to me via anyway you can (hint: I do not hide my e-mail address here). I will submit these before December 1 2008 so we can attend the Training Class on January 31st at Santiago College. After the class, we are official volunteers...
2008/12/11 UPDATE: Due to the low download number of the applications and the fact that I did not receive but one PM re: how to get me the file back, we'll do this a bit differently. Instead of doing this as a group, It's now an individual thing. Please fill out both fs-1800-7 and of-301 and return to the following person:
Debra Clarke - Wilderness / Trails Manager
District Volunteer Coordinator
Cleveland NF, Trabuco Ranger District
1147 East Sixth Street
Corona, CA 92879
(951) 736-1811 x 3227
(951) 736-3002 fax
email: [email protected]
Debra stated that our hours can be joined with the San Bernardino Adopt A Trail program. So what does this mean? For everyone that volunteer at the minimum level, every time you drive to, on and from any trail system in the Trabuco Ranger District, those hours are counted toward our total for awards and recognition. Currently I do about 200 to 400 hours a year myself in that area. I couldn’t even begin to imagine how much Dom spends there...
Official word on Main Divide is November 10 2008 for most of it and a full opening of it after the Blue Light Mine contamination cleanup project is completed. Approximately a few weeks after the 10th.
I don’t recall if it was the basic volunteer or the host program that gives you keys and combinations to the locked gates of closed trails but will find out and post as a follow-up because I’m sure that’s what we all really want isn’t it? The idea behind providing us with the keys and combinations is that we are supposed to run those trails and report back any issues such as illegal fire rings, trail damage, etc… The Forest Service wants us to wheel, behind the locked gates to the closed trails so long as we stay on the trails and report back to them. OMG, that’s way too cool! No more turning around at locked gates.
My thoughts on this oportunity are to maintain course with 3N59A and I think that with one or two more visits, that will be pretty wrapped up, needing only a few monitoring/trash/minor repair runs per year. Plus, snow will be coming there soon and can’t do maintenance there during the snow so I thought we could spend that time focusing our attention on projects in Cleveland National Forest.
Tony, We may want to kind of somehow just join this along with the 3N59A program here and pool all the resources together maybe listing primary people for each forest with an understanding that ALL SoCal FJCruisers volunteers would be secondary volunteers to the other forest. I know I would like to be on the primary list for Cleveland but will definitely be helping with San Bernardino projects as well, because I'm there more than 10 times a year already.
I would like to hear back from everybody that is interested so post up! I need to get an idea of who we can count on, I assume the same people as 3N59A but could be more now that it’s so close.
2008/11/21 UPDATE: Please download the two files and fillout the of-301 form and return to me via anyway you can (hint: I do not hide my e-mail address here). I will submit these before December 1 2008 so we can attend the Training Class on January 31st at Santiago College. After the class, we are official volunteers...
2008/12/11 UPDATE: Due to the low download number of the applications and the fact that I did not receive but one PM re: how to get me the file back, we'll do this a bit differently. Instead of doing this as a group, It's now an individual thing. Please fill out both fs-1800-7 and of-301 and return to the following person:
Debra Clarke - Wilderness / Trails Manager
District Volunteer Coordinator
Cleveland NF, Trabuco Ranger District
1147 East Sixth Street
Corona, CA 92879
(951) 736-1811 x 3227
(951) 736-3002 fax
email: [email protected]
