- Date
- 2010-07
- Kind
- Construction
- Where
- Beaver Island
- Eras
- Modern era
- Concepts
- constructionrecreationcommunityeducationconservation
- Within
- Beaver Island
Summary
The August 2010 Beacon reported that Grand Blanc Boy Scouts’ Troop 176 spent a week in July building bridges and improving a trail west of Wagner Campground with Beaver Island volunteers. The work continued a trail-enhancement effort begun several years earlier.
Evidence limits
This is a newspaper project report, not a trail survey, completion inspection, or complete donor and volunteer register.
Open questions
- What was the earlier trail-enhancement effort, described only as begun “several years earlier,” that this 2010 project continued?
- Which named trail west of Wagner Campground received the new bridges, and does it correspond to a trail identified in the current trail atlas?
If you can answer any of these, or correct anything above, the archive wants to hear it — see Corrections.
Sources
- Beaver Beacon, August 2010, "You Can’t Get There From Here—Without a Bridge."Reports Troop 176’s week of work with Danny LaFreniere and the Trails Committee on bridges and trail improvements west of East Side Drive, with tools, food, transport, and expenses supplied by Island contributors and businesses. No public copy of this file is known; the archive holds one and can provide it on request.data1 · beaver-island-archive · beaver_beacon · 2010-08_Beaver-Beacon
- The held issue scan confirms the trail-construction report.data1 · beaver-island-archive · scans · beaver_beacon · issues · 2010-08_Beaver-Beacon
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Cite this article
Beaver Island Archive, “Grand Blanc Boy Scouts build trail bridges west of Wagner Campground, 2010”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-boy-scout-trail-bridges-2010/, accessed [date], citing Beaver Beacon, August 2010, "You Can’t Get There From Here—Without a Bridge." (and 1 further source listed on the page).
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