Volunteers sought by Greenbelt trail group
Photo credit: Ed Betz | Tom Casey, Vice President of the Long Island Greenbelt Trail, leads a group on three-mile hike on unmarked paths that may become part of a new north-south trail in Yaphank. (Sept. 2, 2012)
Help wanted: People to maintain Long Island's hiking trails. No pay, and opportunities for cuts and bruises and picking up insect bites, but plenty of fresh air and exercise.
The nonprofit Long Island Greenbelt Trail Conference isn't really putting out ads like this for more volunteers to maintain the 150-mile Island trail network. But it does need more bodies.
Parks agencies in the...