Spring Trust for Trails
Highlighted Projects Completed by Trust Grants
Below is a sampling of recent projects completed in the 30 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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For multiple year grants to "Friends of the Trail" for their year around care of trash clean up on trailhead roads of liter 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 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
