Volunteer Resources
We are dedicated to providing our members and volunteers with the most up to date information needed to build, maintain and promote the North Country Trail and run your chapters smoothly and successfully.
We have organized our resources by the following topics. Take some time to explore and see what we have to offer and please remember to leave a comment below to let us know what you do find useful and what subjects you would like to know more about.
- Trail Management: Design Construction and Maintenance
Learn how to design and build a sustainable trail, blaze and sign the NCT and how to stay safe while managing groups of volunteers in the woods.
- Volunteer Management
Recruit, manage and recognize your chapter volunteers with online tools, advice from the experts and stories about what others are doing on the Trail.
- Managing Partnerships and Landowner Relations
Learn skills to effectively partner with our public land management agencies as well as build relationships with current and potential private landowners.
- Promotion, Outreach and Communication
Tools to help you design outreach materials, manage your chapter websites and even write press releases.
- Grant Applications and Financial Management
Field Grant Applications and Report forms, National Park Service funding requests, chapter financial management and tips on additional funding sources.
- Education and Research
Research on hiking, trails and outdoor recreation as well as materials to help us be better stewards and teach sustainable ethics.
- Trail Towns
Information on the Trail Town Program and materials to establish, implement, and communicate the program.
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Re: Doug Welker article in The North Star on P. 7 re: finding “40 Corners”.
Unable to get into that page. It would be handy if you would place a link in the Volunteer Resources section on the Home Page. Thanks
Chuck
Chuck ~ you’re right, the link was not correct in the last North Star. Try this one: http://www.northcountrytrail.org/pwf/mileage_calculator.xls
It will ask you to open or download the excel spreadsheet. Also, it is currently and individual Chapter resource, but I will pass the idea
along about making it available elsewhere. Thanks!
Here’s the correct link:
http://www.northcountrytrail.org/pwf/GPS_UTM_Calculator_for_’40_corners’.xls.
Strangely, I tried typing it in from the North Star once and it didn’t work. Then I tried again a minute later and it did work. Beats me!
With the increasing amount of info available on the web, paper newsletters just don’t do the trick unless there’s a digital version available as well.
Anyway, perhaps this would be a good link to add to the Trail Management: Design Construction and Maintenance section that has a link above.
-doug-
Well, the link I put in my previous comment did not work because the “system” is too stupid to recognize that the entire text I typed is all one link.
I’ll try it again, from a MS Word file.
http://www/northcountrytrail.org/pwf/GPS_UTM_Calculator_for_’40_corners’.xls
Shoot, the text had a hyperlink in the Word file but lost it on its way to this page. It appears that the inflexible programming of this page does not recognize that the character ‘ can be part of a url.
OK, one more try. If this fails you’ll just have to type it in.
http://www/northcountrytrail.org/pwf/GPS_UTM_Calculator_for_’40_corners’.xls
Cutting and pasting the entire link in the web address area will work best. An excel spreadsheet is not actually a “web” page so to speak, so that is why it doesn’t pop up like you’d expect. Cutting and pasting works just fine though! And thanks for your efforts Doug!