Marking a wetlands trail

This trail was created as a Girl Scout Gold project to show the importance of wetlands.

If you liked walking the trail, I hope it inspires you to go out and do something in your community for the environment.

For example, one way you can help is to keep our parks clean. Hemlock Gorge is on the other side of route 9 from this trail. Friends of Hemlock Gorge run a cleanup of the gorge every fall and spring. Go to http://www.hemlockgorge.org to find the date of the next cleanup.

Special thanks to all the volunteers who helped make this trail possible. I couldn't have done it without you.

Melissa

Choosing a site


Melissa choosing places to put new markers


Finding evidence of a previous trail


A previous trail marker


Getting the wood for the posts


Checking out the tools needed


James finishing the edges of the posts


James breaking ground on the first hole


Jeremy working on the first hole


Melissa putting gravel in the hole for drainage


Edna adding gravel


Jeremy pounding nails into the bottoms of the posts
Nails help keep posts from shifting


Caroline pounding nails in a post
while Gabryela and Josi dig a hole


Josi cutting through tree roots


Mike digging the hole for blueberry marker


Amy and Cammie fill in the hole for Maple-leaf viburnum


Steve at Jack-in-the-pulpit


Dan starts the hole for Hemlock


Jeremy digging the last hole


George doing cleanup


Benjamin attaching a temporary sign to a post


Post ready for aluminum sign


Melissa marking placement of sign holes


Melissa drilling holes


Edna drilling holes


Completed post


Ready for the public to use


Gettng Erica's approval on the project


Showing the completed trail to fellow Girl Scouts Gabryela and Devon

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