Volunteer Opportunities
May 21 - Celebrate Urban Birds
May 28 - Beach Seine with the Suquamish
Need more info? ClearCreekTrail@yahoo.com
Randy Peterson has been with the Clear Creek Task Force from day one. A retired Coast Guard Captain, he wanted to get involved in his community and stopped by for a meeting 15 years ago. He never left.
In addition to being totally committed to the Task Force mission, Randy is a Jack of All Trades who takes care of almost all of the trail maintenance, and oversees all the construction. He is out on the trail daily doing everything from the small litter pick up and graffiti removal, to clearing vegetation and fallen trees. Continued...
ADOPT a TRAIL
Typically, a trail adoption includes at least ¼ mile of trail.
Work includes:
- Report damage, vandalism, graffiti or other problems.
- Trimming the grass edges
For more information contact us clearcreektrail@yahoo.com
Volunteers Needed to Help Maintain Trail
The Clear Creek Trail, built by volunteers in 1993 on GPC property in Silverdale, continues to be developed and maintained by a small group of volunteers. The Clear Creek Task Force is trying to expand the group of trail volunteers by having organizations adopt sections of the trail.
"Normally maintenance does not require heavy effort; but does need constant attention," said Tex Lewis, one of the trail founders. "We are always looking for groups to maintain sections of trail, and anyone who would like to help with routine maintenance should give us a call. We would like to expand our "skilled" maintenance crew."
For information about adopting part of the trail, contact the Clear Creek Trail at ClearCreekTrail@yahoo.com
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Join the Clear Creek Task Force
Maintenance is a BIG job and volunteers can be used to clean picnic tables and signs and cut the ever present scotch broom and blackberries! Volunteers are needed to help with special events and raising funds for the trail! Do you have some experience grant writing. Let us know! Join us and help us keep the jewel of a trail we have built, alive and well for generations to come in Silverdale. Email us at clearcreektrail@yahoo.com
Jobs that can be done by trail walkers:
• Pick up trash – anywhere and everywhere. Just carry a grocery bag while out. Preferably take it home, but can deposit, if desired, at trash cans at Schold Rd trailhead, Gateway Park trailhead, Interpretive Center, or picnic pavilion off Ridgetop Blvd.
• Report problems to phone number or email address on kiosks, e.g. trail damage, vandalism, graffiti, trees down, etc.
• Clean Interpretive Signs (yellow ones): Cleaning is easiest with a cart or wheelbarrow to carry rinse water, scrub pad and a good household cleaner with bleach. Don't need to do the ones
• Clean picnic tables (just the recycled plastic ones, not wood ones): Locations can be provided, if needed. Same cleaning stuff, but a scrub brush will work better than a pad. Shouldn’t try to clean graffiti, so there is no need to fiddle with solvents (If desired, most graffiti comes off with lacquer thinner or acetone, but solvents cannot be used on Plexiglas).
• Cut Scotch Broom: Need loping shears or pruning shears. Just leave the cut material to rot naturally. Cutting in winter or when in bloom should kill them. Small ones can be pulled up.
• Cut blackberries (Himalayan and Evergreen, not the creeping natives) - anywhere and everywhere, within 20' or so of trail. Again, leave the material where cut. The blackberries are very easy to spot in the winter - they are about the only thing that stays green.
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