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2024 Volunteer Awards: Trail Maintainer

  The Trail Maintainer Award is presented to volunteers who have demonstrated exceptional dedication or achievements over a 3-year period or more in maintaining or restoring preexisting North Country Trail segment(s). Peter Bennett Peter is an incredibly dedicated trail maintainer and sawyer, having taken on many responsibilities beyond caring for his own adopted section. In […]

2024 Volunteer Awards: Trail Builder

  The Trail Builder Award is presented to volunteers whose work in trail planning, landowner negotiations, layout and design, and/or construction, have resulted in the development of outstanding new North Country Trail or facilities. Pete Bock Pete has maintained a three-mile segment for the Brule-St. Croix Chapter for at least nine years, and helps maintain […]

2024 Volunteer Awards: Outreach

  The Outreach Award is presented to a volunteer whose efforts to build coalitions, partnerships, or other forms of local support over a 3-year period or more have contributed significantly to the ongoing success of the trail. Lisa Bertolasio Lisa serves on the Wampum Chapter’s Hiking Committee and Landowner Relations Committee; is the Trail Adopter […]