#Recreation

Trail Management Toolbox - Terms

Below is the agency’s online dictionary of common trail terminology, with definitions, photos and illustrations. These terms may appear in various trail publications and Forest Service policy. If there is a conflict in the definition, Forest Service policy is the authority. Many of the diagrams or illustrations are adapted from engineered plans featured on the Plans for Trail and Trail…

#Trails, #Recreation, #Infrastructure, #Construction

Trail Maintenance and Construction Notebook

This field guide is for agency staff, partners, volunteers, and all who help build or maintain trails. First published in 1996, this 2025 edition is the fourth revision of the notebook. It includes detailed descriptions of how to plan, build, maintain, improve, and decommission (or obliterate) all types of trails and trail structures. The new edition features updated construction techniques, diagrams, and sustainability concepts.

#Trails, #Recreation, #Infrastructure

Sáttítla Highlands National Monument

On Jan. 14, 2025, President Biden announced the designation of the Sáttítla Highlands National Monument in northern California. The monument encompasses 224,676 acres of varied habitat on the Modoc, Shasta-Trinity, and Klamath national forests and provides protection to tribal ancestral homelands, historic and scientific treasures, rare flora and fauna, and the headwaters of vital sources of…

#NationalMonument, #Recreation, Shasta Trinity National Forest, #KlamathNationalForest, #ModocNationalForest

When a national forest trained Americans for war

It’s 1941. Monday morning, mid-September, has dawned rainy and overcast. Gray clouds hang over the sweltering heat of south Louisiana. Deep in the tall pines of Kisatchie National Forest, a tense, humid calm coils around the thick trees. Shortly, though, it would be shattered by the largest military action to have ever taken place in North America.In the early hours of September 15, the tanks and…

#Military, #History, #Recreation, #VeteransDay

Recreation Opportunity Spectrum Poster

The recreation opportunity spectrum is the Forest Service’s system to define, allocate, manage, and monitor existing and desired recreation settings and opportunities. It provides distinct recreation opportunities for personal experiences and benefits, unique to each individual visitor.

Recreation Opportunity Spectrum Technical Guide

The recreation opportunity spectrum is the Forest Service’s system to define, allocate, manage, and monitor existing and desired recreation settings and opportunities. This guide provides suggested steps and tools for using the spectrum during land management planning, organized by plan revision phases, and followed by examples of project-level implementation.