Mount Shasta Trail Association

Trail Projects, Community Service, and Conservation in the Mount Shasta Region

EARTH DAY IN CASTLE CRAGS STATE PARK

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About 25 eager volunteers showed up at CCSP to work on the campsites.  Brush was cleared and burned, signs installed, tent sites made flatter, and general spruce-up done.  The Boy Scouts and the high school Interact Club (an offshoot of Rotary) were represented.  There is one dedicated campsite for PCT hikers that was made pretty. […]

More on Forest Cleanups

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MSTA and Clean and Safe Volunteers: Despite the considerable risk of boring all of you to death, I feel compelled, in fairness, to post the exchange that has taken place the last three days between me and Carolyn Napper, District Ranger for the Forest Service, following her request that we cease our forest cleanup efforts.  […]

SLIGHT CHANGE OF PLANS

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Dear MSTA Volunteers: Officials at the Forest Service have asked that we stop removing garbage from USFS land.  The reason given is liability concerns.  Therefore, the cleanup on Everitt Memorial Hwy for next Monday, April 23, 2018 is cancelled.  The USFS is suggesting that we call their office (530-926-4511) and report transient encampments and dump […]

APRIL TRAIL WORK

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IF YOU DON’T SHOW UP, WE’RE GONNA DO IT ANYWAY, BUT WE’D LOVE TO HAVE YOU FOR THE AMBITIOUS SCHEDULE LISTED BELOW:   Saturday, April 14, at 8:30 am—Mt. Shasta City Park—Invasive Weed Pull Sunday, April 15, at 10 am—Clean up hillside below the repaired trail in Dunsmuir. Take I-5 south, off at Dunsmuir Ave […]