Deb Blick @ May 8, 2007 # No Comment Yet
Our new email address for trail maintenance materials requests is BuildIt@floridatrail.org … your requests will be routed to the appropriate staff person for fulfillment. Ask about construction projects, request signs and paint and other materials here!
Deb Blick @ August 4, 2006 # One Comment
As the trail maintenance season approaches, it’s time to sign up for trail-related training courses.
Over 100 FTA volunteers took their original sawyer training in 2004-2005 and their certifications will expire during 2007-2008. For this reason, our training schedule this year will concentrate on chainsaw certification. The following courses have already been scheduled, with more courses [...]
Deb Blick @ July 20, 2005 # No Comment Yet
A Recap of the Traditional Tools Demonstration,
May 2005 at the Florida Folk Festival
Michelle Mitchell, USDA Forest Service, National Forests in Florida
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Their advertisement said “Spend a Weekend with Some of the Best Folks in America.†A big promise, yes, but boy did they deliver!
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On Memorial Day weekend this year, a group of Florida Trail Association staff [...]
Deb Blick @ March 5, 2005 # No Comment Yet
Using Traditional Tools in Juniper Prairie Wilderness
Michelle Mitchell, USDA Forest Service, National Forests in Florida
(note: this article appeared in Landviews, Spring 2005)
Readers of Landviews learned about the monumental hurricane recovery efforts underway on the 1,400-mile Florida National Scenic Trail in the January 2005 issue. At the time the article was written hundreds of miles of [...]
Deb Blick @ November 1, 2004 # No Comment Yet
There are standards, qualifications, equipment, procedures, and safety practices, and techniques set down by the USDA Forest Service in their Health and Safety Code Handbook. You can access this handbook on the web at www.firepreventionteams.us/documents/FSH6709-1.pdf The Florida Trail Association uses the USFS Health and Safety Code Handbook as our standard for chainsaw operations, and for many [...]
Deb Blick @ August 5, 2004 # No Comment Yet
Why, In a Modern Day World?
Susan Jenkins, USDA Forest Service
When the Wilderness Act of 1964 was established after years of discussion and debate, it charged that all work in designated wilderness areas, with few exceptions, be accomplished through the use of primitive or non-motorized tools. The word “primitive†carries a negative connotation, so we use [...]