[pct-l] Trail clearing with horses and chainsaws

Diarmaid Harmon irishharmon at comcast.net
Tue Sep 25 11:09:32 CDT 2012


The part of the trail you are talking about is in the Mt Jefferson wilderness area where the use of mechanized machinery is banned. As to them not using horses that is possibly the choice of the trail crew. 

Irish

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On Sep 25, 2012, at 7:24 AM, Devon Taig <devon.taig at gmail.com> wrote:

> As I was walking across Oregon this year, I ran across a trail maintenance
> group (I think from the PCTA) near Three Fingered Jack.  They didn't have
> horses or chainsaws and were facing the daunting task of clearing dozens of
> trees using handsaws that had apparently fallen during a wind storm the
> previous winter.  When I inquired why they weren't using horses and
> chainsaws, I was surprised to hear that they were banned on that part of
> the trail.
> I'm not clear as to why such a ban would exist in the context of people who
> are actively performing trail maintenance.  It would seem to be at least an
> order of magnitude easier to clear a trail with a chain saw and a horse
> than by hand.  I would like to think that when I donate to organizations
> that do trail work that they aren't hamstrung by federal bureaucracy that
> impedes getting important work done.  Can anyone shed some light on this?
> 
> Devon
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