Click on "Project
Report"
form for you to complete and return whenever you spend
volunteer hours or use any private equipment on behalf
of public lands or the public. Please submit reports to:
Backcountry Horsemen
of Central Arizona
P.O. Box 4486
Chino Valley, AZ 86323
or email:
Kelly
Schwartz
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Please consider
these instructions when completing the form.
Report your
hours as if you were working for the public, as you are
and you are saving tax dollars. Ie; start your time when
your begin preparing or loading equipment and stock to
leave for the project. If you are working loading
equipment for 2 hours the day before you leave count the
2 hours. Your stock, both saddle and pack in numbers and
days are reported from the time they leave your barn to
when they return as no one else has access to them each
day they are committed to a project. Report your travel
time. Report miles traveled to and from. Report any
equipment used such as saws, shovels, pack equipment,
trailers for hauling materials, materials donated by
yourself or used from another source etc. If you are
combining recreation and volunteerism I encourage you to
report your volunteerism hours using travel time etc. as
if all travel time etc. is dedicated to volunteerism.
Examples: You prepare and travel to Flagstaff from
Prescott and spend 5 hours doing volunteerism work. Then
you spend the night as it is late but not impossible to
drive home. The next day you recreate and then drive
home. Deduct the actual hours recreating but count all
other hours except 8 hours for sleep. If you are packing
in and camping to facilitate multiple days of
volunteerism report each less 8 hours sleep per day.
Experience shows that minimally you were caring for your
stock and other related time spent to accommodate
spending the night with your stock. If you travel to a
destination and then ride a trail with others inspecting
and observing conditions report all the time. Just
please, report the conditions you did find. I.e. all OK,
trail needs work in a area, vandalism is occurring in a
area or whatever. Since we are not being paid, our time
and resources are counted as a contribution to benefit
the public. Remember that no one is going to reimburse
you for your investment in trucks, trailers, barns,
stock, feed, veterinary bills, maintenance, property,
equipment, training and experience you have made without
which you would not be able to volunteer on behalf of
the public and without similar resources a public
employee could not do his or her work.
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