(Working Hard for Kansas Trails and Trail Users)
Report on Volunteer Hours by Board Members and Trail Coordinators
The development of this web site has given the Kansas Trails Council an opportunity to better inform the public concerning the work and activities of this organization. The average trail user has a very limited understanding of the amount of time spent each year by KTC board members, trail coordinators and volunteers in maintaining and/or expanding existing trails to say nothing of the time that was spent in designing and building the trails in the first place.
The intent of this article is just to inform the visitor as to the number of volunteer hours that were spent maintaining the trails at Tuttle Creek Lake, Perry Lake and Elk City Lake. This will be typical for most if not all the trails developed and maintained by the Kansas Trails Council.
Volunteer Hours Reported by Olivia Huddleston, board member and trail coordinator for Tuttle Creek:
(For the Year 2000)
Coordinator Hours at Carnahan: 312
Other Volunteer Hours at Carnahan: 101
Coordinator Hours at Randolph State Park: 74
Other Volunteer Hours for Randolph S. P.: 104
Total Volunteer Hours the Year 2000: 591
Volunteer Hours Reported by Lyle Riedy, board member and trail coordinator for Lake Perry:
Total Volunteer Hours for the Year 2000: 110
(Lyle reported that he and his volunteer crews spent 300 hours on the trails in 1999 and more than 500 hours in 1998)
Volunteer Hours Reported by former board member and trail coordinator, Dolores Baker and current board member and trail coordinator, Phil Morris for Elk City Lake:
(For the Year 2000)
Trail Coordinators: 98
Other Volunteers: 345
Total Volunteer Hours for 2000: 443
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The total number of volunteer hours reported for these trails for the past year is: 1,144
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The numbers speak for themselves and they represent time donated by people taking time out of their evenings and weekends to work for Kansas trails that we all use. If you should come upon someone working on the trail that you are on please stop and express your gratitude for their efforts for all of us that are trail users.
***Editor's Note:
These numbers were submitted to the Army Corps of Engineers and the State Parks in October and do not reflect any time that has been spent on these trails since then. Also at the time of this posting there was no report of volunteer hours for either El Dorado Lake or Clinton Lake. We hope to include those hours at a future time.
If after reading this article and visiting our site you wish to volunteer to do your part for these trails please contact one of the board members listed on the Board of Directors Page.
