MEMO TO: New Jersey Agency Partners
New Jersey Colleague Organizations
New Jersey Trail Conference Trail Chairs
New Jersey Trail Conference Trail Supervisors

FROM: Anne Lutkenhouse, Projects Director
RE: New Jersey Field Representative Hired by Trail Conference

On behalf of the New York-New Jersey Trail Conference, I am pleased to announce that the Trail Conference has hired a New Jersey Field Representative. Our Search Committee has selected Larry Wheelock as the NJ Field Representative. He began work in mid-October at the four-day-a-week job.

This staffing expansion reflects the Trail Conference's commitment to improving our presence and effectiveness in New Jersey, and to providing better assistance to our trail volunteers.

"The Trail Conference is delighted to welcome Larry as our first New Jersey-based staff, " remarked Conference Projects Director Anne Lutkenhouse. "The job's inaugural year requires strong knowledge of trail work and volunteer labor issues, knowledge which Larry keenly possesses. We are confident that Larry will be an effective facilitator in furthering our mission in New Jersey."

Larry's key responsibilities will include coordinating a needs assessment for trails in each park, leading to developing an action plan for each park or trail system; improving trail stewardship and communications with park agencies; representing the Conference at agency and colleague organization meetings; developing a broader base of member involvement; and developing a management committee for the Farny Highlands Trail Network.

Larry's breadth of experience matched the job's requirements. A Trail Conference life member, Larry joined the Conference in 1989, and began trail work shortly thereafter. He has been a West Hudson trail crew leader for 5 years. He served as an assistant leader on Sierra Club worktrips in the West, and graduated from the Student Conservation Association's Wilderness Work Skills training program, a week-long course in high-caliber trail building and repair skills. For the past two summers, he has been the seasonal trail crew leader for the Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area, working closely with both National, and State, park service officials. He has also coordinated training sessions and workshops for Trail Conference volunteers.

The Trail Conference will not have an office in New Jersey, at least for this year; Larry will work out of his home.

Larry Wheelock
New York-New Jersey Trail Conference
N.J. Field Representative
P.O. Box 169
McAfee, NJ 07428

Business phone (973) 823-9999