Mojave National Preserve Trail Guardian March 22-24, 2024

[Kent R]

PLEASE SIGN UP FOR ONLY ONE OF THE TWO RALLY POINTS #1 OR #2

US West - Project #1 Mojave National Preserve Trail Guardian, March 22 & 23, 2024

Project #1 Mojave National Preserve, we will use a database that NPS will provide to find and catalog all designated dispersed campsites in the Preserve. (There is about 150 +- to complete) Members who participated in last Octobers project #1 are encouraged to sign up again for this project...

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US West - Project #2 Mojave National Preserve Trail Guardian, March 22-24, 2024

Teams will go out Saturday and complete several different projects, Bob Brann will assign teams on Friday evening. Kid friendly project to work with the parks Chief of Science and one of the parks Archeologist's There is an illegal marker at the Vulcan Mine that needs removing. This project...

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[Jim SoG]

RSVP'd for #1

Jim

 

[Kent R]

I have increased the RSVP limit for TG #1, the team leaders want to add one more team to make sure we complete the task.

Bob Brann really needs more people to sign up for TG #2.

 

[TRED LYT]

Put me down for wherever you need me. Looking forward to it!

 

[Kent R]

Put me down for wherever you need me. Looking forward to it!

RSVP for this one please;

US West - Project #2 Mojave National Preserve Trail Guardian, March 22-24, 2024

Teams will go out Saturday and complete several different projects, Bob Brann will assign teams on Friday evening. Kid friendly project to work with the parks Chief of Science and one of the parks Archeologist's There is an illegal marker at the Vulcan Mine that needs removing. This project...

www.overlandbound.com

 

[Kent R]

Trail Guardian #1 has been capped at 37 members plus the three team leaders that will give us the 40 we need.

We still need members to sign up for Trail Guardian #2 we are about 5 shy of being full.

Attendee messages to go out around the first week of March.

Remember I still need raffle prizes ;-)

 

[Kent R]

Still have a few openings for anyone that is interested

 

[Kent R]

Mojave Trail Guardian 03.24 recap

Another great Mojave Trail Guardian event in the books. Those who attended epitomize what the Overland Bound Trail Guardian program is all about.

Special thanks really needs to go to;

• Bob Brann for helping with the planning for the last five months.
• Barclay Osborn for all his hard work organizing the NPS database so it was usable, and to set up areas for four teams to survey.
• The Mojave National Preserve and the NPS employees that came out to make sure we got all the resources we needed. The OHV Ranger, Ondrej, even came out on his day off.

The Primary project was to finish surveying all the dispersed campsites in the preserve, this was completed, this sets us up for the next project to integrate those campsites with tracks into them that have ratings for severity. Thanks to Barclay, Tom, Mike, Ofer and Armin for getting the crews out and helping them be very efficient. Thanks to Michele for her hard work getting a large chunk of the sites surveyed before our event.

Attendees;
67 members, 58 adults and 9 kids. Make no mistake - the kids worked just as hard as the adults helping Dr Sophia and Archaeologist Danilo.

5 projects;
Surveyed over 160 dispersed campsites.
Removed micro plastics from the Barnwell Ranch in the York Fire footprint.
Replaced road signs on Ivanpah Road.
Installed 2000’ of erosion control wattle.
Removed steel pipes from the Vulcan Mine.

Raffle;
Grand Prizes;
Winch, 4Wheel Parts of San Jose. Member and huge Overland Bound supporter Rodrigo de Souza was responsible for this very generous prize.
Two sets of Max tracks from an anonymous donors who was in the audience
$500 Gift Certificate from Top shop Automotive, donated by Carl Sampson( @socal66)
Gazelle tent, Overland Bound

Raffle prizes;
Members donated hats, patches, key chains, misc toyota products, Yeti bags, swing chair from Chris Hersey, grab bags from Overland Bound, Adventure book Driven By a Dream, water bottles and T shirts from 4Wheel Parts, Insulated water bottles from Mike Keith,

Tentative dates for the fall Mojave Trail Guardian event are October 25-27

 

[Roger 2486]

Thanks Kent and Lucy for all your hard work!