Volunteering

PLT trutees work on the Calamint Hill trail area

The work of the Open Space Committee, particularly the development and maintenance of trails, requires many hands! Princeton is fortunate to have a number of groups working on these issues, and we are always looking for help. We have a great group of volunteers in town, and many have had the satisfaction of creating new trail systems. For example, we had over 20 volunteers helping with the creation of both the Calamint Hill and Cobb Brook trail areas in the past two years.

Contact a member of the Open Space Committee or Princeton Land Trust (PLT) if you would like to help. for the Open Space Committee, email to TrailAroundPrincetonMA@gmail.com or call Rick Gardner at 978-660-8664.

Some opportunities to get involved include:

  • Join the Open Space Committee or the Princeton Land Trust to work on higher level planning of open space protection
  • Join the Trail Stewards or the Trail Workers email list. Trail Stewards work on planning for trail projects and organize trail building or maintenance projects. The Trail Workers group is called into action when a project has been organized and hands are needed to cut brush, prepare trails, prepare signage and kiosks, or perform other work on a trail event day.
  • Participate in the annual earth month cleanup by adopting a trail area, park, or road for the spring cleanup, or work on keeping an area clean during the year.
  • Join the PLT Land Steward group. Each land steward adopts a PLT property to monitor, clean trails, check boundaries, and report back on work as needed

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