Community Trust Improves McBride's Recreation Options


December 19, 2008

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Forest workers employed through the Job Opportunities Program work on a trail in McBride Community Forest. The $113,520 project also includes improvements to hiking and snowmobile trails as well as the construction and installation of a kiosk, boardwalks and other infrastructure.

 

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Workers return down a boardwalk section of trail built as part of the Job Opportunities Program in McBride Community Forest. The $26.25-million Job Opportunities Program is helping to reduce the impact of current layoffs in the forest industry, and retaining skilled workers in forest-dependent communities for the sector's anticipated upturn in the future.

 

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A riverside trail in McBride Community Forest, completed as part of the Job Opportunities Program