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SUSTAINABLE TRAIL BUILDING 101

Sustainability

We design, build, and maintain to limit erosion from trail users themselves, and from the forces of nature. For trails, woods roads, and gravel driveways, it begins with deliberate planning, construction techniques, and regular maintenance.

Water, Water, Water
We ask where and how surface runoff is collected. In what manner will it be shed away? Trail building borrows on roadbuilding techniques, and also uses its own unique set of guidelines, described below.

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