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January 18, 2018 Matthew Nelson

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🏆 Thank you to the Western Heritage and Film Festi 🏆 Thank you to the Western Heritage and Film Festival for featuring Trailblazers and awarding it the Best Documentary Award! @qlpdigital @atwellian @bdavis_cinecam @vecinedad @mistyeditsaz @az_apa @rancho_feliz @timknightjr @anami_films @azmixercp @pixelthick @arizonagripelectric @foxnoggin
Thanks to our friends at #PineStrawberryFuelReduct Thanks to our friends at #PineStrawberryFuelReduction, the #ArizonaTrail has some fresh wooden signs throughout Mogollon Rim Country. This is a direct result of trail users commenting on navigational challenges due to all the recent trail improvements in the area. This includes upgrades to the Highline Passage of the #AZT, and some new trails surrounding the gateway community of Pine that serve multiple purposes: • more trails for locals to enjoy • connector trails linking an already impressive trail network between Strawberry and Pine • fire breaks to protect the communities • routes for wildland firefighters to utilize when responding to incidents • more reasons to visit this beautiful area With approval from the Payson Ranger District of the #TontoNationalForest, our local friend Geno cranked these signs out, and they have been installed over the past few weeks. While we really love steel signs, there's something so organic and aesthetically pleasing about wooden signs in the forest. If you haven't heard the buzz, Pine and Payson are gaining a legitimate reputation as trail towns. With the recent formation of the Rim Country Trail Fund, the Town of Payson's commitment to expanding trails for all users, expect great things in the years ahead. Check out a recent article in @singletracks about the 64 miles of trails currently in the works. And if you haven't visited the Highline since the recent improvements, please make this your next destination. It has transformed the Arizona Trail from a rugged route along the base of the Mogollon Rim to a truly pleasant trail experience in one of Arizona's lesser known corners. Projects like this are possible through the support of people like you -- members, donors, business owners and trail lovers -- who recognize the value of the work we do alongside numerous partners throughout the state. @townofpayson
This week the #ArizonaTrail Association's "Thursda This week the #ArizonaTrail Association's "Thursday Gang" switched gears from gabion-and-rail fence to puncheon bridge replacement. Ten years ago, when the Colonel Devin segment of Passage 26 was re-routed from a powerline road to the banks of the #EastVerdeRiver, a conservation corps built puncheon bridges across two perennial streams. These split log structures served well, but one of them had rotted through and became a hazard. Forest Service sawyers cut a nearby large oak log lengthwise for the crew to install as a bridge. Crew members removed the bark and prepared the ends to sit flat on rocks. Others removed the old bridge and set large rocks to serve as abutments. Eight crew members carried the heavy oak planks to the site and fine-tuned placement to make them stable. The final step was driving rebar through the planks into the ground to anchor them. Special thanks to the FS sawyers who traveled from Globe with their chainsaws. Trail work on the #AZT is not always picks and McLeods! ⚒️
As a wise #ArizonaTrail volunteer said more than o As a wise #ArizonaTrail volunteer said more than once, “Be careful what you get good at.” Last fall, the Thursday gang of volunteers completed a gabion-and-rail fence constructed from 44 rock gabions and 41 rails around the Pine Trailhead. The project was completed over eight days. Recently, Angie Abel, Recreation Manager on the Payson Ranger District, asked if we would like to build another fence. So, over the last several Thursdays, the group snatched a few morning hours of tolerable summer temperatures to install the same gabion-and-rail fence at the Washington Park Trailhead. This location, just below the headwaters of the East Verde River, has become quite popular in the ten years since the #ArizonaTrailAssociation led a group of partners in moving the #AZT from a rocky utility road to a newly-constructed trail through tall pine trees along the river. Volunteerism has many rewards, including improvements to trails and trailheads for all to enjoy. If you’d like to get involved, drop us a message.
Three years ago, after decades of advocacy led by Three years ago, after decades of advocacy led by Native American tribes, the designation of Baaj Nwaavjo I’tah Kukveni – Ancestral Footprints of the Grand Canyon National Monument permanently protected almost 1 million acres of tribes’ ancestral homelands and groundwater around the Grand Canyon, and 40 miles of the Arizona National Scenic Trail.
Six years ago today, the Great American Outdoors A Six years ago today, the Great American Outdoors Act was signed into law. After decades of bipartisan advocacy, the Great American Outdoors Act permanently funded the Land and Water Conservation Fund (LWCF) – securing dedicated funding for our nation’s most important conservation and recreation program that protects public lands across the country. From national parks, forests, and refuges to state and local parks, scenic rivers, and historic sites, LWCF protects outdoor recreation access for all, wildlife habitat, drinking water, and a myriad of other benefits provided by public lands and waters. It’s also the primary funding mechanism that will support future land acquisitions to protect the Arizona Trail from development. The Great American Outdoors Act is a shining example of the bipartisan support for conservation and recreation as it was passed by bipartisan majorities in the House and Senate and signed into law by President Trump in his first term. Now, on the sixth anniversary, LWCF still enjoys broad bipartisan support but there are anti-public lands members of Congress who are seeking to undermine LWCF and steal funding from this important program for other purposes. We need the members of Congress who support our great outdoors to stand up and protect LWCF and our public lands. Please remind them that public lands belong to We The People, and they should be working to protect LWCF. #protectlwcf #lwcf #publiclandsinpublichands
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