FTA Staff @ August 31, 2006 # No Comment Yet
 From Leave No Trace principles to chainsaw certification, the Florida Trail Association offers an array of volunteer training courses every hiking season for our members, with some courses open to the general public. Learn rigging or tool maintenance, or how to safely and effectively wield a chainsaw, crosscut saw, or axe. Train with the best!
Spaces [...]
Deb Blick @ March 1, 2006 # No Comment Yet
At the 2006 Annual Conference this March, the Florida Trail Association hosted Bob Gray, Chief Park Ranger of the Appalachian Trail, who presented a program on Trail Security. Bob is on temporary detail to the FTA/National Forests in Florida partnership in order to assist in developing a Trail Security Program. The presentation at the 2006 [...]
Deb Blick @ January 2, 2005 # No Comment Yet
Thanks to the cardio aspect of our chosen pastime – hiking! – we get a good workout for our hearts. We should still consider the following information from the American Red Cross:
• Seventy-five percent of all out-of-hospital cardiac arrests occur in the home.
• About 1.25 million people experience a heart attack in the U.S. each [...]
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 [...]