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gripped his shrub cutters with both hands,<br \/>\nstanding along the East Shore Trail near Grand Lake. He looked for a moment at<br \/>\nthe pine tree sapling that grew just a bit too close to the trail.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI hate to kill the little ones,\u201d he said. \u201cBut it has to be<br \/>\ndone.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>With a quick snip, he tossed the downed sapling off the path and continued up the trail looking for more shrubbery to cut back.<\/p>\n<p>McCormick was one of at least 400 people who volunteered on<br \/>\nNational Public Lands Day in the Grand County area Saturday. He and five others<br \/>\nfollowed a park ranger along the 3.5-mile trail. They brushed debris away, cleared<br \/>\nshrubbery and sometimes moved fallen trees too close to the trail.<\/p>\n<p>East Shore Trail will soon be opening to bikers, so part of<br \/>\nthe clearing process was meant to make the trail safer for them as well.<\/p>\n<p>McCormick, who lives in Colorado Springs but owns a place in Granby, has been volunteering at Public Lands Day for over six years.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI like to give back to nature,\u201d McCormick said. \u201cI use the<br \/>\ntrails; I help support them. Everything\u2019s so beautiful. If everybody just does<br \/>\na little bit it makes a huge difference.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Also in McCormick\u2019s group was Christine and Stephen Lee, a<br \/>\nretired couple living in Hot Sulphur Springs. The couple has participated in<br \/>\nalmost half of the past 25 years of Public Lands Day events in Grand County, as<br \/>\nthis was their twelfth year helping out.<\/p>\n<p>For Christine, the reason they volunteer every year is<br \/>\nsimple.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWell, we live here,\u201d Christine said. \u201cThat\u2019s what you do.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This isn\u2019t the only time of the year she and her husband<br \/>\nvolunteer on the trails, but it\u2019s one of the \u201cbig ones\u201d because the date is always<br \/>\nset.<\/p>\n<p>Other groups on the trail chopped down hazardous trees and<br \/>\npulled out stumps in the path of the trail. In one area, a small group<br \/>\ncontinued work on a bridge over a wetlands area.<\/p>\n<p>Volunteers worked other projects on Saturday as well,<br \/>\nincluding the Upper Colorado River Cleanup at Pumphouse Recreation Area,<br \/>\nmaintenance of Serendipity Trail, turnpike and bridge construction on Sherman<br \/>\nCreek Trail and a reroute of Strawberry Fruit Loop Trail.<\/p>\n<p>For McCormick, Christine Lee and all the others out Saturday, the event was a good way to give back.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSomebody had to do the work to get [the trail] to where it<br \/>\nwas,\u201d McCormick said. \u201cWhen you walk and think, \u2018Oh, this is a cool trail,\u2019 well,<br \/>\nit didn\u2019t start that way\u2026 It makes you feel good, like I\u2019ve done something to<br \/>\nbenefit the trail system.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Show CaptionsHide Captions Jim McCormick gripped his shrub cutters with both hands, standing along the East Shore Trail near Grand Lake. 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