Cost Share Agreement with the Forest Service

Since 2014, the STC does a variety of different work with the Forest Service to improve and maintain trails in the trail designation project.

With this agreement, the STC works with the Forest Service to maintain many trails. We can use our own equipment under this agreement, which makes it much easier to collaborate without any unnecessary hold ups. See below for some more information about specific projects and purchases completed!

Trail 457 between Secret Canyon & Blanchard Church crossing:

pulling fabric in the mud

Pinning the logs in place

Turnpike ready for rock

Packing Day

Having done some many pack days, an assembly line of buckets is ready for horses.

Dumping filled buckets into pack bags

Packing in rock to the first turnpike

Holding horse before dumping

Hitching a ride back to get more rock

No one needs to tell this mule how to do his job, he's headed back for more gravel

Volunteer having fun working and hitching ride back to the buckets

Job well done

A core group from the STC worked on this project but there has been several volunteers join. Thanks so much for help from the Forest Service's Kelly and STC's Angie, Belinda, Rick and Cricket for completing the turnpike.

To packing day workers a big thanks to Forest Service's Kelly, Meagan and Alicia and to volunteers  Misty, Delaney, Belinda, Sandy, Sue, Dwight, Evan, Mojac and his brother-in-law, Angie, Rick, Cricket and Vicki--and of course special thanks to Lucy for making the brownies!

We had 9 pack animals and we filled the first turnpike with rock. 

We had a TON of hard working ground crew volunteers who kept the buckets filled with rock and set them up and formed a lane for the pack animals to be led up in.

Preparing for next turnpike by hauling in logs

Much easier than carrying the logs

Log splitting for turnpikes

Cedar split and ready to use