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Volunteering for National Public Lands Day

Volunteers in hard hats and work gloves pose on a new bridge they built.
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…
#NationalPublicLandsDay, #Volunteers, #TrailMaintenance, #Trails

Restoring Hanging Lake

Hikers descend Hanging Lake Trail.
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…
#Recreation, #Partnerships, #Trails, #Restoration, #Partners, #TrailMaintenance, #Hiking, #HikingTrails, #NationalForestFoundation

165,000 miles of adventure

A person riding a three-wheeled cycle on a forest trail.
On national forests every day is National Trails Day. There is a trail for everyone, year-round.Across the country, 165,000 miles of Forest Service managed trails wind up, down and through the landscape. End-to-end, those trails could circle the globe more than six times, making the Forest Service the proud managers of the biggest trail system in the world…
#Recreation, #HikingTrails, #NationalTrailsDay, #Trails

National Forests and Grasslands App

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Your Pocket-Sized Forest Service GuideWe rely on our phones more than ever. Third-party apps can be outdated or inaccurate. Visitors have told us loud and clear—they want authoritative trail and recreation info straight from the Forest Service. Introducing the National Forests and Grasslands app…
#Maps, #Recreation, #HikingTrails, #Trails, #Visitors, #InteractiveVisitorMap

Three cheers for volunteers

Image shows a group of  young people picking up litter on a trail with superimposed text reading" NPLD National Public Lands Day"
Join Woody Owl and friends on National Public Lands Day as we lend a hand and care for the (public!) lands! (Forest Service photo by Cecilio Ricardo) “Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.” – Arthur AsheFor more than 100 years, USDA Forest Service volunteers have embodied…
#NationalPublicLandsDay, #Environment, #Partnerships, #Trails, #Recreation

Repairing the great outdoors

Image shows two people in hard hats laying rocks down while doing trail maintenance.
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…
#GreatAmericanOutdoorsAct, #Trails, #TrailMaintenance, #Restoration, #Recreation