National Public Lands Day

National Public Lands Day gives people all across the country the opportunity to put their hands to work on projects to benefit public lands. Participants also learn more about natural resource management and the need for shared stewardship of these lands.

On September 29, 2007 a record 215 volunteers celebrated National Public Lands Day on the Campbell Tract. These volunteers helped to brush and install signs on the Campbell Tract Loop Trail (a newly designated National Recreation Trail), revegetate 5,000 square feet of an old airstrip wing, brush and apply gravel to the Lore Road Trail, beautify Campbell Airstrip Trailhead and the Science Center grounds, construct a new team-building activity site, paint 300 feet of fence, and split and stack 15 cords of wood for a Biomass Demonstration Unit (an outdoor wood-burning stove that uses spruce bark beetle-killed trees to heat the Science Center).

In the afternoon, about 300 members of the public attended our Annual Open House and learned to “Take It Outside: Connect with Your Public Lands.”

Mark your calendar for National Public Lands Day: September 27, 2008!