$25,000 Grant, Grassroots Support Strengthen the Everybody Hikes Mt. Major Campaign

 

Volunteers Rachel French and Betsy Kelly welcome hikers at the Mt. Major trailhead.

The S.L. Gimbel Foundation has awarded a $25,000 grant to the campaign to purchase and protect 950 acres in the Belknap Range. This new grant brings the total raised for the project to more than $800,000, leaving $1 million more to go. More than 1,100 individual donors have stepped up to help the campaign so far. Such a broad base of support is largely thanks to the tremendously dedicated volunteers from the Belknap Range Conservation Coalition who have shared the project with hikers and collected donations at the Mt. Major trailhead for the past several months.

Hundreds of hours of volunteer effort went into the Belknap Range Trails map.

It's also thanks to the popularity of the weatherproof map of the Belknap Range trails that donors of $50 or more receive as a "thank you" gift. Thank you to mapmaker Weldon Bosworth and volunteer GPS-ers Rick Andrews, Steve Zimmer and others from the BRCC and the Belknap Range Trail Tenders for providing this great incentive!