2014-Trail Maintenance Skills Training at Lubhan Trail

Start Date-End Date: 09/27/2014-09/27/2014 Land Manager Office: City of Golden Parks and Recreation Land Manager Contact: Funding Partner: Programmatic Partner: Summary: OSI is partnering with Friends of Lubhan Trail to offer a trail maintenance skills training. Description: Trail maintenance is a critical activity to ensure the success of a trail program. Finding solutions for erosion problems, boggy areas, loose soils and widening or braiding of trails requires experience and skill. Multiple skills will be taught during the training including water diversion structure construction, rock step instillation, social trail closure and corridor clearing.Participants will rotate through all of the skill sets offered. Latitude/Longitude: Additional Information: Camping Available: No Physical Difficulty: High Altitude Project: Desired Number of Volunteers: 15 Total Adult Volunteers Attended: 20 Total Youth Volunteers Attended: 0 Total Volunteer Days: 25 Total Unique Volunteers: 20 Total Volunteer Hours: 159 Staff Hours: 23 Stipend Hours: 0 Project Summary: Successes and Challenges: Lessons Learned: Special Notes: Stewardship Education: Key Concerns or Comments from Staff or Volunteers: Description of Accidents/Incidents: Description of Work Completed: "The Lubahn trail is an historic trail in the heart of downtown Golden that is part of the City of Golden trails system . The trail has not received consistent maintenance over the last decade due to stressed City parks staff resources. As a result the Friends of Lubahn trail was formed as an unincorporated group of Golden neighbors and friends who wish to preserve and maintain the unique character of the trail for our neighbors, citizens of Golden as well as Golden's visitors. We have worked closely with the City and established an approval process that allows the Friends to work without direct city oversight but still be accountable. We accomplish this by training our volunteers using trail stewardship and skills training through VOC/OSI, meeting all city liability requirements, photographing before and after work as well as logging total volunteer hours. We feel that VOC has been instrumental in helping us jump start our efforts by providing specialized volunteer training as well as personalized trail repair notes for the Lubahn trail itself. VOC also has an outstanding existing reputation with the City and we feel that goes a long way in giving our group the ability to work on city property. We look forward to working with VOC again for future training efforts as we build and strengthen our group." - Pete Gotseff, Friends of Lubhan Trail leader.