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On our June workday, we’ll start building a new section of the MST on the Moorefields easement in Hillsborough. This project is part of our years long effort to connect the Riverwalk section of the MST (which ends in Gold Park) to that in the Seven Mile Creek Natural Area.

Certified sawyers: the work will include significant chainsaw work (at a safe distance from the other trail work), please bring your saws, we’ll provide gas and bar oil.

Learn more about historic Moorefields: https://moorefields.org/

Date: June 14, 9 AM – 2 PM. If you can’t stay for the entire time, please know that we are deeply appreciative of any effort you contribute.

Meeting Location: Moorefields, 2201 Moorefields Rd, Hillsborough, NC 27278.

Drive up the driveway, park in small field on west (left) of drive before you reach the double white gates (36°03’36.1″N 79°08’38.4″W), then walk up the driveway to the orientation.

If you can join the team: Please respond by email to Bill.Boyarsky@gmail.com by June 10 — your response informs the breakfast preparation and tools that will await you, helps me plan the day, and puts you on the notification list for further updates or a workday cancellation message.  If you are a sawyer bringing saws, please indicate such.

What to bring: You need to wear appropriate-for-the-weather work clothes (that can get dirty), solid shoes or boots, and bring lunch (if you plan to work into the afternoon), snacks, water, and work gloves. If you have a favorite tool, bring it.

What we bring: We will provide all tools, extra work gloves, and instructions. If you are new to this kind of activity, there will be experienced volunteers within asking distance: we are a supportive trail community that loves to grow.

Cancellation: If the workday is cancelled due to bad weather, an email will be sent out no later than 8:00 p.m. the preceding day, to the RSVP list.

Safety: Use tools carefully. If you do not know how to use a particular tool, or what to do in a particular circumstance please ask. Do not work too close together — avoid hitting the person next to you. When walking past another volunteer, please say something so they know you are approaching. Do not lift anything heavier than you can comfortably lift — know your own limits. Take plenty of breaks. Undertake different tasks with different tools throughout the day. Make sure to drink plenty of water, even when it’s cold outside. Be aware of holes in the ground, briars, ticks, chiggers, snakes, stinging insects, and poison ivy.

The Riverwalk hosts downtown Hillsborough’s section of the MST. One of its early advocates and planners was a landscape architect, master gardener, and conservationist named Wendy Olson. The organizers of the Wendy Olson Arboretum will hold a creek cleanup on Saturday, May 24 starting at 9 AM in Gold Park. The goal will be to clean the Bellevue Branch Creek, from its confluence with the Eno, upstream to the Arboretum, approximately 1 mile. This creek has been a dump site for decades. This will be the first serious effort to clean it up, and thus clean the downstream Eno River and Falls Lake waters. To read more about this effort https://buttondown.com/wendyolson/archive/west-hillsborough-big-creek-clean-up/

Learn more about the Arboretum: https://wendyolsonarboretum.com/

If you are not on our Eno/Orange County workday announcements email list (to get announcements like this one), but would like to be, let me know by email.

Next Orange County MST workdays (RSVP to Bill)
OC workdays will resume in September.

Next Eno MST workdays RSVP to Fred (fred.dietrich@duke.edu)
June 7
Eno workdays will resume in September.

Next Alamance County MST workdays (RSVP to Andrew ).
The AC team is working on trail along the Haw River. Andrew, the Task Force Leader, would welcome email about a workday or a request to be added to his Workday Announcement email list.
May 17
Jun 21

And thanks for all you do for the Mountains to Sea Trail

Bill
Bill.Boyarsky@gmail.com
Friends of the MST Task Force Leader, Orange County
(919) 451-2900
Pronouns: he, him