We are partnering with Friends of Poke-O-Moonshine for a new kind of trail project this Saturday, February 5 at 9:30 a.m.

What an amazing day!  We had a great turnout and a beautiful day of hiking at Poke-O-Moonshine in what was to be a "tracking" hike to see signs of wildlife.  It had snowed the night before so the tracks we saw were just depressions in the snow with no detail indicating what the animal was except for size. 

Hike leaders David Thomas Train and Elizabeth Lee provided commentary and interpretation as we hiked up the old jeep trail to a new beaver pond.  The old beaver dam had washed out a few years ago and the DEC built a nice bridge over the now free-flowing brook.&

Join us for the CATS Trail Committee Meeting this Saturday, January 15th from 1:00 to 3:00 pm at Bill Amadon's house on Lakeshore Road in Essex.  We will discuss the Trail Adopter Program, potential new trails, trail stewardship, and upcoming priorities.  We'd love to hear your ideas and would really appreciate your participation - it is a great way to help plan and care for CATS trails.  Bill's house is at 1446 Lakeshore Road, four miles south of Essex, 6.5 miles north of Westport.  It is a two-story brick house with an orangy-red barn with grazing sheep and a llama.&nb

We had a large turnout for the January animal-tracking hike at Poke-O-Moonshine’s Lost Oak Valley. This hike is a continuation of winter tracking hikes organized by Friends of Poke-O-Moonshine and Keeping Track that began several years ago. Usually, the January hike has temperatures below zero, but last Saturday the temperatures were quite warm, making for a very comfortable and enjoyable day outdoors.