ADOPT-A-TRAIL

Typically, a trail adoption would include at least ¼ mile of trail, i.e. one block. Most of the year there are minimal requirements for work, but in some seasons, the work is more extensive.

Work includes:

  • Trash Control  
  • Cutting back brush   
  • Leaf cleanup
  • Report damage, vandalism, graffiti or other problems. 
  • Trimming the grass edges

For a complete list of tasks that can be done by the public by themselves or by arrangement with members of the Task Force, please see list below.

Volunteers are needed in many areas and for many tasks for the Clear Creek

Trail Project.  For more information contact Mary Zabinski at 360-692-0929 or email

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 www.clearcreektrail.org or (360) 613-5500

Are you.....

One of these Faces?     We are looking for more Clear Creek Task Force members and more volunteers! 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 Join the Clear Creek Task Force!!

Check out this page:  Faces: our volunteers

1. Jobs that can be done by the public mostly by themselves:

  • 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. Damage, vandalism, graffiti, trees down, etc.
  • Clean Interpretive Signs (yellow ones): A map can be provided if needed. 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 North of Waaga Way they are to be replaced.
  • 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 East and North of the hospital: Need loping shears or pruning shears. There are a lot, but scattered, and mostly small. 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 Scotch Broom above and behind Doctor’s Clinic (Salmon Medical Center).  This job is already assigned.
  • 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.  Volunteers should probably take a block or so, or a particular patch, at a time.

 

2. Jobs requiring assistance or guidance (if interested, contact the Clear Creek Task Force at    
   clearcreektrail@yahoo.com

  • Act as a docent at the Clear Creek Interpretive Center on Levin Rd periodically. Center is         open first & third Saturdays for about 2-4 hours.
  • Assist in planning and execution of special events:Earth Day, National Trails Day  Whaling   Days,“Celebrate Clear Creek”
  • Transplant Alders: There are hundreds of small alder seedlings about a foot high between the bowling alley and the creek along the new trail. Dig some and replant “bare-root” along the North trails. Could do the same cycle more than once - there are plenty of trees. Any of the areas of the North trails where planting has already begun is OK. Best done late Fall and Winter.
  • Plant Willows, Dogwoods and Cottonwoods: Cut short pieces of branches and stick deeply in the ground in the North fields along the trail (within 50’-75’or so) in the wetter areas. After instruction, could do more alone. Best done late fall and Winter.
  • Install a bench on the new trail section (near Ridgetop).  Requires digging post holes and mixing concrete.  Bench is available.
  • Move a picnic table out of the hospital woods to the new trail section near Ridgetop Blvd. Primary need is manpower to carry it on a hand cart.
  • Minor improvements to rough new section of trail near Ridgetop Blvd: Install a culvert and do some leveling, i.e. mostly digging.
  • Plant more Evergreen trees.  We have a supply of small evergreens. Requires digging them up (near Mountain View Blvd) and replanting along the North trails. Best done late Fall & Winter.