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Trail Maintenance at Green Earth I |
On December 6, 2008 Chris and Caroll Long
worked to re-establish the center trail at
Green Earth I. This trail meanders
through the center of property and cuts the
trail roughly in half. The trail has a
bridge and erosion bars installed, but lack
of use has made it nearly invisible.
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this project, we used a leaf blower to clear
the trail and used chain saws to cut a path
through a white oak that had fallen across
the trail. |
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Above you can see the white oak top crossing
the trail on the left. With the bridge
already in place we could not re-route the
trail.
On the right is the trail curving
through the top of the white oak. We
made as few cuts as possible to leave the
tree as intact as we could. Some other
bent or broken trees and piles of debris
where cut up closer to the ground for
aesthetics. |
Below Caroll uses a Stihl BR 600 to
uncover the forgotten foot path. |
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Chris cuts the top of the white oak that is
blocking access to the bridge. |
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Bougs and Darling help rehab the trail by
putting some wear on it. |
The erosion bars were found buried under the
leaf litter. It took a curvy path to
find them all. |
