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Spring Trust for Trails
Highlighted Projects Completed by Trust Grants
Below is a sampling of recent projects completed in the 36 years Spring Trail Trust has worked formally. Ira Spring had Granted funds for projects since 1968 but these are ones funded by this formalized Trust.
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Equal partnering with Holden Village to fund air lifting in prepared foot log bridges at Lyman Lake and Prince Creek, both of which are very dangerous crossing after current foot logs washed out.
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Multiple year grants to "Friends of the Trail" for their year around care of heavy trash clean up on trailhead roads of liter, abandoned vehicles, and homeless encampments left by thoughtless people, a huge undertaking by Wade Holden and his crews.
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Partnering with WTA in funding a multi-week trail crew through Northwest Youth Corps to do extensive trail maintenance in North Cascade and Boundary trail.
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Over a decade of various projects completed by Northwest Youth Corps with funding from Spring Trust
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Multiple years of Earth Corps International Program doing trail work deep into the back country.
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Trust funds used to purchase a portable fiberglass hiker bridge for the USFS to use for emergency temporary replacement of washed out bridges. This bridge has been used in multiple emergency locations since purchased. Currently being used in Darrington Ranger District temporarily replacing a washed out bridge until funding can be secured to put in a permanent replacement,
- Before the Trust, Ira Spring has provided
funding since 1968 for organized Youth Volunteer Programs doing trail work.
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Multiple Years of working together with the SKY Youth and Job Corps Programs in North Cascade's and Olympic Pennisula
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Granted funds to Conservation Northwest Trail building Projects in Eastern Washington
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Trust funded initial feasibility study and route design work and then contributed funds for construction along with many partnering organizations and volunteers that helped build the new trail up Mailbox Peak.
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Ira Spring personally got federal funding for a contractor to rough in and then Volunteers for Outdoor Washington to building a new trail to Mason Lake and Ira Spring Trail on I-90 Corridor
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Funded flying in logs and materials for volunteers to build a solid bridge over Mason Creek which previously had been a dangerous crossing.
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Example of a bridge the Trust is preparing to assist in funding construction on Suiattle River to access Glacier Peak Wilderness Area via Milk Creek, Glacier Peak access was destroyed in flooding 16 years ago and a safe access for horses and hikers is badly needed to fully enjoy this beautiful Preserved Wilderness.
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Funded Mountain to Sound Greenway and Conservation Corps. to do a badly needed trail reconstruction on Granite Mountain
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Provided packer support with Back Country Horsemen of Washington for Northwest Youth Corps plus BCHW volunteers rebuilding a badly collapsed trail at "Edgy Ledy" up the Icicle Drainage towards Enchantments were a horse fell to death previously due to unsafe conditions, major multi-year project.
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In 2023, on the Pratt Valley Connector Trail in the Middle Fork of the Snoqualmie Valley. A 10-year-old bridge collapsed from rotted stringers on the Rainy Creek drainage crossing, in which a horse had broken through the decking and was recovered safely after hours of being suspended on the damaged bridge multiple agencies responded by lifting out the horse using highline rigged system. Urgency to get this bridge replaced for user access to the Valley was beyond the USFS funding/work cycles. Our Trust jumped into fund building a new bridge using a professional trail crew contractor to remove and replace in kind, the old, compromised bridge. The location being inside the Alpine Lakes Wilderness only non-powered tools and native materials could be used without special new permitting which takes time (years). Now in less than 10 months since the bridge was found compromised today hikers and equestrian user can use the scenic trail once again year around. Thanks to a large volunteer support from BCHW, WTA, and USFS volunteer program they took the opportunity to rebuild a safer alignment/approach to our contracted new bridge as well. Project completed and reopened to hikers and equestrians in mid-2024.
The Spring Family Trail Fund’s Federal IRS tax ID number is 91-6512799 and it is an established Foundation under IRS 509(a)(3) with compliance to the guidelines of 501(c)(3). As well as a registered Foundation in the State of Washington.
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