Members of the Conservation Committee of Northern NJ Council, BSA were recently trained by the NY/NJ Trail Conference as trail maintainers. They have now been assigned the responsibility of maintaining about 3.8 miles of the Appalachian Trail immediately above Camp No-Be-Bo-Sco. 

"This is a great opportunity to get the boys involved with the trail and the community that has developed around it. It's also a good way for the boys to give back to the local environment, given the amount of use that the trail gets from our camp," said conservation chairman Steve Kallesser.

The section of the trail to be maintained by the Scouts runs from Millbrook-Blairstown Road north to Flatbrookville-Stillwater Road (near Camp Ken-Etiwa-Pec). About 2/3 of that section of the Appalachian Trail was owned by the camp until 1970, when it was sold to the federal government as part of the Tocks Island dam project.

During training, Scouters learned the ins and outs of the "Appalachian Trail" way of doing things and exactly what is expected in terms of trail maintenance. The crew was put immediately to work on a different 2.3 mile section of trail south of camp that had not seen maintenance in over a year, with Gene Giordano, the Appalachian Trail coordinator in New Jersey, overseeing the work.

Would you like to get involved with the trail program?  Find out more here.