Peter Strauss Ranch Trail Crew leader: Dave Edwards We met at the main parking area of Peter Strass Ranch at 8:30. The purpose of this outing was to clear the trail of brush and weeds to a width of four feet and to leave the cuttings on the trail. This coming Saturday is National Public Lands Day. The volunteers for this event will be tasked with raking and cleaning up the trail of the cuttings we left on the trail today. At 8:45 we began clearing weeds and brush using two gas powered hedge trimmers. Another crew member went ahead with a gas-powered pole chain saw and cleared the trail of dead tree branches and part of a large tree which fell onto the trail. Crew size: 5 Hours worked: 4 Total hours: 20 Total feet of trail worked: 2600 ft (trail clearing will not be complete until Saturday. We won’t report any additional footage for Saturday’s work). Crew members: Dave Edwards, Jerry Mitcham, Jon Sheldon, John Kross and Dave Perlmutter.