Westwoods Trails Meeting
October 20, 2003
Guilford Community Center
Chair: Paul Proulx.
Meeting began: 7:30 PM
Attendance: Paul Proulx, Shelley Green, Sandy Porter, Mary Richerson, Bill Blaha, Jim Shaw, Richard Judson, Audrey Teofilo, Dia Robinson, Joe Kaufman, Susan Kukle, Bob Handschumacher.

Approval/corrections of minutes: Minutes from Sept 15,2003 approved.

Resignations/New Members/Members news: Richard Judson is a new member

GLTC Report: Copies of the fall walk schedule were passed out.

Ct Forest and Park:
-Paul Proulx attended a meeting about the Ct Walking Trail Guidebook and gave the group the GPS data for the West Woods System. There was some discussion at this meeting about a Nationally funded trail being surveyed with the intent of connecting the Blue Trails to trails in Massachusettes.
-Paul passed on an invitation to all members of the WWTC to attend a reception on Thursday October 30th at the Ct Forest and Park Association Head Quarters in Rockfall, CT.
-The Ct Forest and Park Association Annual Dinner is November 7th, anyone interested can get details from Bill Blaha.

Shoreline Greenway Trail: Trail designer Peter Jenson will be speaking at a meeting on Thursday November 13th at 7:00pm in the Memorial Hall in Madison. The topic will be the Shoreline Greenway Trail project. He will also be walking trails in the West Woods on Friday November 14th. Anyone interested in joining the walk can meet at Dunk Rock at 9:00am.

Trail Reports
Westwoods:
-Team A: (4 Hours) Paul and Sandy cleaned up trail entrances and cleared the overgrowth in Peddler's field. A concerned hiker got in touch with Paul about a party site that she discovered on the White Circle trail. She cleaned it up.
-Team B: (5 Hours) Blazing was completed on segments of the Orange Circle, and trees were marked for removal in the remaining closed section. The trail markers are missing near the entrance at Three Corners Road.
-Team C: (11 Hours) Paul reported that with Fred's sling shot and Peter's expertise the remaining large trees were brought down on the Red Diamond.
Nut Plains: No report
Paul Trail: No report.
Kampmeyer: Joe has reblazed the trail. It is very swampy right now and needs bridges. The Fall Walk scheduled for this trail may have to take an alternate path in one section.
Eastwoods: Has been completely reblazed.
Hoadly Creek: No report
Spencer Creek: No report.

Scheduled Work Parties:
-1:00pm Saturday November 1st meet at Moose Hill Green Rectangle to survey the potential re-routing of the Yellow Circle north of the Blue Rectangle.
-1:00pm Sunday November 2nd meet at Dunk Rock Rd to clear all cut debris and reopen the Red Diamond trail.

Old Businesss:
-Paul emailed Huber to let him know that there were four Ct signs missing
-Matt and Kevin reported that the West woods Webpage is temporarily on the town site at www.guilfordct.com/westwoods. Check it out feed back is welcome. Some suggestions were to link to GLTC, give trail status (open/closed), add some historical info, advertise the Nature Trail Book, add the East Woods.
-Paul marked about 200 on the Orange Circle to be cut. Shelley Green suggested that we might like to look at a bigger picture and want to leave some more areas uncut.

New Business:
Trail Assignments
-The GHS Environmental Clubs wants a trail to maintain. They have been assigned the Green Rectangle.
-Richard Judsen has been assigned to Bob Handschumacher's Team A
-Dia continues to lead Team B
-Susan Kukle continues to lead Team C
-Kevin Smith will lead Nut Plains
-Joe Kaufman has Kampmeyer
-Susan Kukle and Sally Richards have East Woods
-Dixie Sanderson has Spencer Creek Nominating Committee Sandy Porter has volunteered to chair the nominating committee. Paul Proulx's three year term ends in January 2004. Anyone else who is interested in exploring the options for nomination please get in touch with Sandy. Assessing the West Woods Design Shelly Green presented a handout that she prepared regarding proposed steps for assessing the West Woods trail network. It appears to be a considerable and thorough process. The group decided to include reviewing part of this proposal a regular feature of the monthly meeting.

Adjournment: The meeting was adjourned at 8:55pm
Recording Secretary: Sandra Porter