Volunteering for National Public Lands Day
As summer comes to a close and we start the transition into the next season of school, football, and a long-awaited break from the heat—it can help to mark that rejuvenation through a change of scenery. What better place to get refreshed than a national forest or grassland.Look for that renewal this year, on National Public Lands Day, this Saturday, September 26, a day dedicated to volunteering…
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Restoring Hanging Lake
In the spring of 2023, Emily Kasyon hiked the Hanging Lake Trail in the White River National Forest for the first time. The water was so high she waded through it the entire way up.“My very first site visit out to this site was during high runoff,” said Kasyon, project lead with the National Forest Foundation. “The very first time I ever hiked this trail, it was completely flooding. I was hiking…
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Repairing the great outdoors
Last year we talked about national forests being like our favorite sweaters — much loved but getting a bit frazzled around the edges and needing some repairs. The kind of unraveling that happens to older vault toilets, bridges, trails and more.So, as Aug. 4 rolls around for the fifth year of the Legacy Restoration Fund established by Great American Outdoors Act, let’s check in on five projects…
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From a mining aqueduct to recreational gold-the restoration of an historic Alaska trail
A newly installed Forest Service sign orients recreators on the reconstructed Fish Creek bridge, one of 64 bridges that were rebuilt along the fourteen-mile trail. (Photo courtesy of Dave Haas)
In the 1880s, Douglas Island, now part of Juneau, Alaska, was the site of the largest gold mining complex in the world. A 14-mile-long aqueduct carried water…
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Trails in transformation
California Conservation Corps crew member Louie de los Reyes and Inyo National Forest staff member Natalia Muglia use a chain and winch to move a boulder to restabilize a portion of the John Muir Trail within the Inyo National Forest August 17, 2022. The repair project was made possible with…
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GAOA team takes over Forest Service social media
Winnie, a 6-month old kitten from Tucson, Arizona, whose owners took him up to Marshall Gulch, a high-elevation recreation site on the Coronado National Forest, was the subject of a social media post shared during the Great American Outdoors Act Implementation Team’s takeover of the Forest…