Coming Events In The San Gabriel River Ranger District

Coming Events In The San Gabriel River Ranger District

Last update: 24/Nov/2011

This page details the "Coming Events" of activities that are scheduled to take place in the San Gabriel River Ranger District.

This web page is useful for you if you are looking for information on how join volunteer efforts which will:

• Work on maintaining and restoring hiking and nature trails
• Plant trees for watershed restoration
• Bust up illegal rock dams in a river
• Clear brush and other combustables for fire mitigation
• Build or restore signage along highways or trails
• Acquire hands-on training with gasoline powered chainsaws
• Acquire hands-on training with crosscut hand saws
• Build and maintain foot and equestrian bridges
• Build and maintain rock walls and rock bridges
• Pick up trash and litter
• Meet community service requirements
• Scrub and swamp out toilets (Coordinated with the USFS)
• Take children out on nature hikes (Coordinated with the USFS)
• Remove spray paint from roads, signs, rocks (Coordinated with the USFS)
• Acquire College credits and gain experince for forestry work
• Healthy free exercise! to get in shape and stay in shape
• Manu other things

For up-to-date and more accurate information about these kinds of events, you should contact Lois Pickens (USFS) at lpickens@fs.fed.us by email or telephone Lois at the San Gabriel River Ranger District Office at (626) 335-1251 ext 231. To see what is involved in volunteering, click HERE for the "How To Do It" web page that describes what trail volunteering is like.

We meet at the Gateway Information Center which is pictured in the photograph offered above. We meet on the first, third, and fifth Saturday of every month, leaving the Gateway Center at 8:00 a.m. sharp and we usually return to the Gateway at around 4:00 p.m.

• December 3, 2011 -- For further information, contact the San Gabriel Mountains Trailbuilders.

• December 17, 2011 -- For further information, contact the San Gabriel Mountains Trailbuilders.

• December 31, 2011 -- For further information, contact the San Gabriel Mountains Trailbuilders.