The Friends Of Our community Trail (F.O.O.T.), a sub-committee of the Chelan-Douglas Land Trust, will be hosting a trail clean up event on July 10, 2008 from 5-8 pm meeting at Barn Beach Reserve, Leavenworth.
“This is the first step in achieving the vision of a trail linking Leavenworth to the communities down the valley all the way to Wenatchee,” according to Patrick Walker, Trails Coordinator for the Chelan-Douglas Land Trust.
The cleanup will focus on a 3.5-acre piece of property that was recently bequeathed to the Chelan-Douglas Land Trust which has an area that connects directly to the existing Barn Beach Reserve and Leavenworth Waterfront Park trail system. This section will eventually connect to a trail going all the way to Wenatchee.
The property was previously owned by Lorene Young who passed away in 2007 and left her property to the Chelan-Douglas Land Trust with the express purpose of developing an Audubon Center for Leavenworth. The land trust is working in partnership with the Barn Beach Reserve to fulfill the wishes of Lorene Young.
Jeff Parsons, Director of Barn Beach Preserve, says “The extension and connection of this trail through Lorene’s property will be great. This property has such an incredible variety of flora, fauna, and birds that will make the trail very useful in our education programs.”
This section of trail will be the first of many that will link up and create a trail to Wenatchee. “Right now the goal is to get people walking on this section and thinking about the possibilities,” Walker says.
Participants are asked to show up ready for some good hard work and fun. Tools needed include rakes (leaf or dirt) and loppers. Work will include clearing the existing trail bed of over growth and downed limbs. People who want to help are asked to RSVP to Patrick Walker (667-9708), the Trails Coordinator for the Land Trust..
“We are hoping for a good turnout,” Walker says that participants will be taken care of by the Munchen Haus after the event. “It’s always easier to get people to work with a little incentive.”
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The Chelan-Douglas Land Trust is a local non-profit working to conserve our land, our water, and our way of life – now and for generations to come - through voluntary land agreements, education, partnerships, stewardship, and well planned growth. For more information on the CDLT, visit www.cdlandtrust.org.