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 Posted: Fri, Mar 18 2011, 2:07 pm EDT Post subject: Eagle Trail - Cranbury Brook Preserve |
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My family often walks on the Eagle Trail in the Cranbury Brook Preserve. Over the winter, several trees have fallen on the trail and it looks like many more are on the verge of falling.
Who is responsible for maintaining these trails? If not the township, I wouldn't mind taking my chainsaw and clearing some of the more dangerous trees away. |
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| Posted: Fri, Mar 18 2011, 4:09 pm EDT Post subject: Re: Eagle Trail - Cranbury Brook Preserve |
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| Go for it. |
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| Posted: Fri, Mar 18 2011, 4:27 pm EDT Post subject: Re: Eagle Trail - Cranbury Brook Preserve |
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| Guest wrote: | My family often walks on the Eagle Trail in the Cranbury Brook Preserve. Over the winter, several trees have fallen on the trail and it looks like many more are on the verge of falling.
Who is responsible for maintaining these trails? If not the township, I wouldn't mind taking my chainsaw and clearing some of the more dangerous trees away. |
In the words of Elmer Fudd, "be vewy careful." I believe the township has placed this all into an environmental preserve. There are extreme limits on what you can do with power tools and machinery. While I am sure there is a way to get an ok to clear fallen trees, going in without permission and a chainsaw sounds like a good way to get into a lot of trouble.
I would go into the township see what they plan to do and if the answer is, "nothing", offer your services. |
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| Posted: Wed, Mar 23 2011, 3:34 pm EDT Post subject: Re: Eagle Trail - Cranbury Brook Preserve |
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| I think the boy scouts should maintain the trail. It's a good community service project for them. some of the nesting boxes built for the eagle scout project have come down or are broken, they should be maintained. Part of the project should have been to make sure that there was perpetual care of the area. |
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| Posted: Wed, Mar 23 2011, 4:08 pm EDT Post subject: Re: Eagle Trail - Cranbury Brook Preserve |
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| It was really nice for a while - benches were built and kept up, the town put woodchips on the trail, a few wooden bridges over small gullies were built...Instead of an expensive track for a few runners, let's maintain the stuff we already have! |
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| Posted: Wed, Mar 23 2011, 4:36 pm EDT Post subject: Re: Eagle Trail - Cranbury Brook Preserve |
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| The track will be paid for with private donations the two are unrelated |
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| Posted: Wed, Mar 23 2011, 4:37 pm EDT Post subject: Re: Eagle Trail - Cranbury Brook Preserve |
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| Guest wrote: | | It was really nice for a while - benches were built and kept up, the town put woodchips on the trail, a few wooden bridges over small gullies were built...Instead of an expensive track for a few runners, let's maintain the stuff we already have! |
The track is being done by pure volunteers. Let's see if some group would volunteer for the trail. |
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Robert Zurfluh
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| Posted: Wed, Mar 23 2011, 7:45 pm EDT Post subject: Re: Eagle Trail - Cranbury Brook Preserve |
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I use the trail quite often. I am up for a work day. If interested, e-mail me @ robertzurfluhrd@gmail.com. Saturday and Sunday afternoons are good. Starting late April I can do Saturday mornings as well.
-Robert |
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| Posted: Wed, Mar 23 2011, 9:53 pm EDT Post subject: Re: Eagle Trail - Cranbury Brook Preserve |
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| Guest wrote: | | Part of the project should have been to make sure that there was perpetual care of the area. |
In a perfect world this would have been nice but I think it’s presumptuous to expect it. This was done by a single boy scout as a volunteer activity. How is it reasonable to assume he had the means to assure its perpetual maintenance, short of an amazing fundraising effort to secure a permanent endowment. He can’t control what future boy scouts or troops do. And while it would be a nice ongoing project for them, it’s not reasonable for any person, whether scout or leader, to perpetually commit future generations of troops to a particular volunteer activity. Hopefully some scouts take it up from time to time. |
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| Posted: Fri, Mar 25 2011, 6:50 pm EDT Post subject: Re: Eagle Trail - Cranbury Brook Preserve |
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| Then maybe it's time to take the fancy "eagle trail" signs down |
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| Posted: Fri, Mar 25 2011, 7:01 pm EDT Post subject: Re: Eagle Trail - Cranbury Brook Preserve |
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| then - does anyone know who is actually responsible for maintaining this little Cranbury treasure? |
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| Posted: Fri, Mar 25 2011, 9:52 pm EDT Post subject: Re: Eagle Trail - Cranbury Brook Preserve |
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| Guest wrote: | | then - does anyone know who is actually responsible for maintaining this little Cranbury treasure? |
I was told the Township is and to a limited extent does. The trails are used by the Cross Country team in the Fall and it is the Township who is responsible for clearing the trails used in the meets. |
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| Posted: Sat, Mar 26 2011, 11:42 am EDT Post subject: Re: Eagle Trail - Cranbury Brook Preserve |
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| Guest wrote: | | Then maybe it's time to take the fancy "eagle trail" signs down |
What a truly obnoxious and ungrateful human being. Perhaps you'd volunteer time to help? |
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| Posted: Sat, Mar 26 2011, 12:07 pm EDT Post subject: Re: Eagle Trail - Cranbury Brook Preserve |
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Why doesn't someone who is concerned and uses this trail ( I am not and do not use) try and make contact with one of the boy scout leaders. I believe that the boy scouts do a cleanup of garbage in a specific area during the spring. Maybe they would be willing to clean the trail in addition to or instead of picking up the garbage.
Maybe someone who is concerned about it could organize a cleanup like Mr. Zurflough (unsure of spelling) suggested and meet there at a specific time and date to walk the trail and help clean it up. |
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Robert Zurfluh
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| Posted: Sun, Mar 27 2011, 3:33 pm EDT Post subject: Re: Eagle Trail - Cranbury Brook Preserve |
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| Well, thus far nobody e-mailed me or called me. I guess we can wait until one group or another comes out and cleans it up or we can leave it the way it is. |
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| Posted: Wed, May 11 2011, 4:26 pm EDT Post subject: Re: Eagle Trail - Cranbury Brook Preserve |
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| The trail has been cleared. Thanks |
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