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hodog Importance of Protecting Trails - 2007/12/02 16:15 Anyone who questions the importance of protecting trails for public use should check out Wolfs Rock Trail in Black Mo. It was a gated double track that followed a beautiful old moss covered road. Wolfs Rocks was a low impact trail due to rare plant species growing in the area. It was never truly open to any recreation except for hiking. Horses, bikes, and snowmobiles were frowned upon. Now forestry has 'improved' it with shale and widening to use as a haul road for logging. They stopped at the intersection with Campfield Trail where they 'decided' Campfield trail needed turned into a haul road as well - sad.

HO

Post edited by: hodog, at: 2007/12/03 10:04
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zero Re:Importance of Protecting Trails - 2007/12/03 09:07 oh for pete's sake Ho...you need to get on the same page as the all knowing DCNR. they know what's best and it's their forest dang it. to quote DCNR on the same issue we had down here.....

I sympathize with your disappointment, but please realize that first of all this is a working forest, and there will be some disturbances from time to time. Secondly, that part of the Cider path (INSERT WOLFS ROCK HERE) was originally built as a "woods road" to get out timber and its use as a trail was just a fortuitous fringe benefit. Many of our most scenic hiking trails were originally built for very utilitarian purposes and it is unfair to insist that once they become designated as foot paths that they can't ever again be used for any other purpose.

this is their mentality. so not wanting to go against the flow i have now taken the position that everything should be bulldozed and shaled!! maybe even paved. and while you're at it...kill all the deer. they're the ones destroying the forest.
oh wait...that's the game commission not DCNR. so what?. they're all in it together. just kill and bulldoze everything i say.

Ho...you better assimilate or else.

seriously...fortuitous fringe benefit?. try using that one on the AT people! it's redicules!!

anyway...i know exactly how you feel HO.
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mattd Re:Importance of Protecting Trails - 2007/12/03 10:36 What a downer..that was such a nice trail.

The more I learn about land management in PA (and the entire US) the more I want to pack up my bike and camera and hop on a plane to the land of the kiwis.

They seem to care..at least sometimes.
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princess Re:Importance of Protecting Trails - 2007/12/03 22:43 can i come too matt? i bet bikes are the same there as they are here.
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mattd Re:Importance of Protecting Trails - 2007/12/03 22:48 Sure thing, come along. The bikes are the same, the mountains are steeper and the ocean is much closer.
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