Saturday is National Public Lands Day, and Oregonians have dozens of opportunities to volunteer.

Cheyne Rossbach, Assistant Field Manager with the Bureau of Land Management’s Roseburg District, said it’s a great way to give back.

“A lot of times, folks don’t fully realize the amount of work that has to go into just maintaining some of these sites and keeping them open," he told KLCC. "Volunteers are instrumental in that. Without volunteers, we’d continue to fall behind.”

Rossbach said he helped organize an early Public Lands Day event. On Sept. 20, there was a trail maintenance work day at Susan Creek Falls off Highway 138 east of Roseburg. He said the paths were heavily impacted from the 2020 Archie Creek fire, and volunteers helped remove debris and continue to restore the trail to it

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