Glacier View Mtn Trail No. 381, one of our early season projects, is cleared. It needed it badly as it was heavily overgrown with snowbrush for a good part of its length.
Glacier View Mtn Trail No. 381 is cleared
Schedule for the first half of the season posted!
Clearing Glacier View Mtn Trail, April 26, 2025 – W. K. Walker
We’ve published our initial schedule of activities, running from now until mid-July. As always this time of year, the schedule is kind of fluid, depending on weather conditions and how rapidly the snow melts off in the back-country. Given the current Forest Service staffing difficulties, our schedule is also more ambitious than usual as we attempt to ensure the most significant early season trails get adequate attention.
Please see our Calendar Page for details.
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The Forest Service is cutting its seasonal workforce to the bone
Forest Service crew clearing obstruction from Moran Creek Tr No. 2, July 15, 2023 – W. K. Walker
Here is a very concerning discussion of next year’s Forest Service seasonal worker hiring freeze. Note that this affects the regular seasonal employees. The recently established “permanent seasonal” employees will still have work, although there will be no money for additional duties. And there is still money to staff the fire crews. Still, this portends a difficult trail maintenance season next year.
…The agency relies on a large, often underappreciated army of seasonal or temporary workers who clean bathrooms and campgrounds, empty trash cans, maintain trails, welcome people at visitor centers and do critical research work on the environment.
These employees help monitor the health of the public waters and forests that the agency oversees, clearing brush and trees that pose wildfire danger and monitoring the health of Alaska’s sockeye salmon. The Forest Service-managed portions of the Appalachian Trail that were damaged by Hurricane Helene will likely be repaired by temporary workers. (Hikers are currently advised to stay off over 800 miles of the Appalachian Trail.)
Next summer, however, most of these tasks will be performed by other staff — or else not done at all…