Powder River County
Healthy Living
Published: 2020By Julie Riley
MSU Extension works with Powder River Trails, a group created to encourage walking and a healthy community.
• Installed three memorial benches along the trails.
• Organized Steps for Charity, an incentivized walking program, that had 31 teams of 124 total people walking to raise $1,240 for 11 charities. Participants said: I’ve walked to work and am surprised how many more steps I get in a day; wearing a pedometer has increased my awareness and motivated me to walk; I had to go shed hunting to increase my steps, my calving just was not as difficult, and I learned I needed to increase my steps.
• Organized the 4th of July Freedom Run for 52 participants
• Obtained $3,000 in grant funds to purchase a mower to maintain the trails and install signage along the trails.
• Organized Steps for Charity, an incentivized walking program, that had 31 teams of 124 total people walking to raise $1,240 for 11 charities. Participants said: I’ve walked to work and am surprised how many more steps I get in a day; wearing a pedometer has increased my awareness and motivated me to walk; I had to go shed hunting to increase my steps, my calving just was not as difficult, and I learned I needed to increase my steps.
• Organized the 4th of July Freedom Run for 52 participants
• Obtained $3,000 in grant funds to purchase a mower to maintain the trails and install signage along the trails.
