{"id":1669,"date":"2022-02-26T23:17:14","date_gmt":"2022-02-26T23:17:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/monocacyhill.org\/?page_id=1669"},"modified":"2022-03-26T20:23:40","modified_gmt":"2022-03-26T20:23:40","slug":"trail-maintenance","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/monocacyhill.org\/?page_id=1669","title":{"rendered":"-Trail Maintenance"},"content":{"rendered":"<style>\/*! elementor - v3.6.1 - 23-03-2022 *\/\n.elementor-heading-title{padding:0;margin:0;line-height:1}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title[class*=elementor-size-]>a{color:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:inherit}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-small{font-size:15px}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-medium{font-size:19px}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-large{font-size:29px}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-xl{font-size:39px}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-xxl{font-size:59px}<\/style>\n<h2>Trail Maintenance (TM)<\/h2>\n<p>While all volunteer efforts for Monocacy Hill are important and appreciated, the most often required and physically demanding are those related to park and trail maintenance.\u00a0 Along with the Geiger Road parking and picnic areas, there are a total of about 6 miles of forested hiking trails on Monocacy Hill.\u00a0 Amity Township has certainly done it&#8217;s share over time to maintain the park, but the majority of the maintenance work on the trails is done by the trail maintenance volunteers of the Monocacy Hill Conservation Association (TM-MHCA).\u00a0 In conjunction with Amity Township, over time, the TM-MHCA volunteers have created trails, moved trails, drained standing water from trails and cut and cleared spots where trees (some huge!) have fallen blocking access.\u00a0 We have also planted trees, removed vines and invasive trees and plant species and currently have developed and maintain a pollinator field for native wildflowers that has been designated as a &#8220;Monarch [butterfly] Waystation&#8221;!\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Before and after photos of our most recent project &#8211; Restoring Lower Trail &#8211; appears below.\u00a0 To see more Trail Improvement Projects, <a style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/monocacyhill.org\/?page_id=1684\">click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<style>\/*! elementor - v3.6.1 - 23-03-2022 *\/\n.elementor-widget-image{text-align:center}.elementor-widget-image a{display:inline-block}.elementor-widget-image a img[src$=\".svg\"]{width:48px}.elementor-widget-image img{vertical-align:middle;display:inline-block}<\/style>\n<figure>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/monocacyhill.org\/March_2019_Trail_Restoration.jpg\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"240\" height=\"320\" src=\"http:\/\/monocacyhill.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/March-2019-Trail-Restoration-before-2-rotated.jpg\" alt=\"Before Trail Restoration\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/monocacyhill.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/March-2019-Trail-Restoration-before-2-rotated.jpg 240w, https:\/\/monocacyhill.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/March-2019-Trail-Restoration-before-2-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a><figcaption>Before Trail Restoration<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/monocacyhill.org\/March_2019_Trail_Restoration.jpg\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"254\" height=\"320\" src=\"http:\/\/monocacyhill.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/March-2019-Trail-Restoration-9.jpeg\" alt=\"After restoration\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/monocacyhill.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/March-2019-Trail-Restoration-9.jpeg 254w, https:\/\/monocacyhill.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/March-2019-Trail-Restoration-9-238x300.jpeg 238w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 254px) 100vw, 254px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a><figcaption>After restoration<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"560\" height=\"420\" src=\"http:\/\/monocacyhill.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/workweekendtwo.jpg.w560h420.jpg\" alt=\"Trail Maintenance - Weekend Work\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/monocacyhill.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/workweekendtwo.jpg.w560h420.jpg 560w, https:\/\/monocacyhill.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/workweekendtwo.jpg.w560h420-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"http:\/\/monocacyhill.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/AnnMarieandVal.jpg\" alt=\"Watering in August\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/monocacyhill.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/AnnMarieandVal.jpg 640w, https:\/\/monocacyhill.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/AnnMarieandVal-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" src=\"http:\/\/monocacyhill.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/bridgeworkers.jpg.w300h225.jpg\" alt=\"Volunteers creating a bridge\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"560\" height=\"420\" src=\"http:\/\/monocacyhill.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/june2004storm.jpg.w560h420.jpg\" alt=\"Trees often fall across the trails and need to be removed\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/monocacyhill.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/june2004storm.jpg.w560h420.jpg 560w, https:\/\/monocacyhill.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/june2004storm.jpg.w560h420-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s always plenty of work to be done at the Hill!\u00a0 If you would like to join our group of volunteers, <a style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/monocacyhill.org\/?page_id=648\">click here<\/a> to complete a very brief questionnaire.\u00a0 We will then contact you regarding when and where MHCA maintenance projects take place.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trail Maintenance (TM) While all volunteer efforts for Monocacy Hill are important and appreciated, the most often required and physically demanding are those related to park and trail maintenance.\u00a0 Along with the Geiger Road parking and picnic areas, there are a total of about 6 miles of forested hiking trails on Monocacy Hill.\u00a0 Amity Township [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1205,"parent":1048,"menu_order":3,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/monocacyhill.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1669"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/monocacyhill.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/monocacyhill.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monocacyhill.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monocacyhill.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1669"}],"version-history":[{"count":35,"href":"https:\/\/monocacyhill.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1669\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2041,"href":"https:\/\/monocacyhill.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1669\/revisions\/2041"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monocacyhill.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1048"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monocacyhill.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/monocacyhill.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}