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Start Date-End Date: 09/24/2005-09/24/2005
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Summary: Celebrate National Public Lands Day by building a new hiking and mountain biking trail dedicated to a long-time public land steward.
Description: This year for National Public Lands Day we will be constructing a new hiking and mountain biking trail that will be dedicated as a memorial to Pete Larson. Pete was a retired high school science teacher who worked seasonally for both the BLM and the National Park Service. He died last August in an ATV accident while on the job for the BLM. He was an avid trail runner and mountain biker who often used public lands trails.
The new trail will be approximately 1.2 miles in length and is located on BLM land in the "Lunch Loop" area, a popular recreational trail system within two miles of downtown Grand Junction. This was one of Pete's favorite areas to run and bike with his beloved sheepdog "Kes." The area offers outstanding views of the Grand Valley, Grand Mesa and Colorado National Monument. The trail will provide an important addition to the existing trail system. It will offer an intermediate level trail in an area which currently contains mostly advanced level trails. It will provide several new loop trail opportunities.
Join Pete's family, friends, co-workers, former students and other public lands users for a fun day of trail building and community building. Not all the work will be heavy labor or swinging tools. We'll need support help for organizing work crews and providing food and refreshments - we're still in the planning phase on this. Don't hesitate to sign up. We'll get you involved.
The first 80 people to register for this project will receive a free National Public Lands Day t-shirt.
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Desired Number of Volunteers: 100
Total Adult Volunteers Attended: 91
Total Youth Volunteers Attended: 0
Total Volunteer Days: 91
Total Unique Volunteers: 91
Total Volunteer Hours: 528
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