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NEWS &
PROJECTS
PARK AGENCY
UPDATES and miscellany (updated
about the 15th of August)
click here:
SPRING NEWSLETTER (pdf)
STATE PARKS - Frank Padilla,
Jr.
- General trail work included: Nicholas Flat
Trail, Ranch Center Rd, and Baldwin Hills
- State required trail maintenance crew leader
training will be offered this fall. Contact the Trails Council for
more information.
- Willow Creek Trail received some attention
during an Amgen team building event.
- FEMA has already approved part of the damages by
winter rains and work has begun on the staircase beaches. The $77,000
for Pt. Mugu should come soon.
- Deadhorse trailhead reroute is going through the
permit process. The immediate climb will be made less severe.
- Permit process continues for improvements to
Trippet, Los Liones, and the Hub.
NATIONAL PARK -
Leslie Jehnings
- A regular Trails Council trail maintenance
volunteer scratched his cornea while doing brush work with the NPS. He
wasn't wearing eye protection which is now required.
- The SMMNRA Interagency Regional Trail Management
Plan will be presented to the public this fall. It covers 775 miles of
trails and addresses: usage, status, maintenance, accessibility, resources,
dogs, type, ADA, trailheads, BBT camps, etc.. Three alternatives will
be offered for consideration.
MRCA - No Report
MISCELLANY -
- A
Backbone Trail fair will be held on November 5 at Peter Strauss. Come
and learn more about our longest and most varied trail.
- The Trails Council received a donation of books from our good friend Milt
McAuley.
- This summer/fall the Trails Council will complete the View Ridge Bridge grant
by providing follow-up brushing, signage, and paint to the bridge we
installed in 2000 and 2001.
- The Trails Council has initiated a business membership. If you own a
business or work for one and are interested in more information please
contact us mail@smmtc.org
- Park agencies have been working with a property owner in Malibu to design
alignments across his 750 acre property for the Coastal Slope Trail and
Puerco Cyn Trail.
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