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Volunteers needed for trail cleanup at Slabsides on Saturday

by Frances Marion Platt
February 15, 2017
in Entertainment, Nature
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(Photo by Will Dendis)
(Photo by Will Dendis)

This week, with spring in full swing, encompasses Earth Day, the 200th birthday of John James Audubon and Arbor Day. So naturally, lots of outdoorsy events are being planned by community organizations in our region, including community, shoreline and trail cleanups. Volunteering for some is a great way to work the cabin-fever kinks out of your atrophied muscles.

One local environmental treasure is Slabsides, the rustic cabin built in West Park by the great 19th-century naturalist John Burroughs. While the cabin itself won’t be open to the public again until the third Saturday in May, its recently refurbished trail system is available year-round. But winter blowdowns have blocked passage on some of those trails, so a cleanup party is being organized for this Saturday morning, April 25, and volunteers are needed. The Catskills chapter of Trout Unlimited will be showing up with chainsaws to clear fallen trees, so all you need to bring are work gloves, and clippers or a metal rake if you have them.

If you’d like to start the day with a nature walk guided by Matt Corsaro of the John Burroughs Natural History Society, let him know that you’re coming by e-mailing mattcorsaro@yahoo.com and show up at 8 a.m. Trail-clearing crews will meet up at 9 a.m. at the Slabsides gateway. Trail treats will be provided.

The John Burroughs Nature Sanctuary is located at 261 Floyd Ackert Road, just off Route 9W in West Park. To sign up to participate in the Spring Trail Cleanup, e-mail joanburroughs@yahoo.com.

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Frances Marion Platt

Frances Marion Platt has been a feature writer (and copyeditor) for Ulster Publishing since 1994, under both her own name and the nom de plume Zhemyna Jurate. Her reporting beats include Gardiner and Rosendale, the arts and a bit of local history. In 2011 she took up Syd M’s mantle as film reviewer for Alm@nac Weekly, and she hopes to return to doing more of that as HV1 recovers from the shock of COVID-19. A Queens native, Platt moved to New Paltz in 1971 to earn a BA in English and minor in Linguistics at SUNY. Her first writing/editing gig was with the Ulster County Artist magazine. In the 1980s she was assistant editor of The Independent Film and Video Monthly for five years, attended Heartwood Owner/Builder School, designed and built a timberframe house in Gardiner. Her son Evan Pallor was born in 1995. Alternating with her journalism career, she spent many years doing development work – mainly grantwriting – for a variety of not-for-profit organizations, including six years at Scenic Hudson. She currently lives in Kingston.

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