Trail Talk
COMMON COURTESY – by Clayton Gillette
Trail Talk – June 2024
PERHAPS IT’S NOT SO COMMON, or at times it appears to be absent altogether. And yet, we’d expect adults to be mindful of others. So how is it that in the […]
NATIONAL TRAILS DAY CELEBRATION JUNE 1 FOR NEW TRAILS IN THE STERLING MINE DITCH TRAIL SYSTEM!
Jacksonville Review – May 2024
SISKIYOU UPLAND TRAILS ASSOCIATION (SUTA) is planning a National Trails Day Event to officially open 5 miles of new trails constructed within the Sterling Mine Ditch Trail System (SMDT). We’re celebrating […]
MAKING TRACKS – by Clayton Gillette
Trail Talk – May 2024
WARM SUNNY DAYS followed by cool cloudy ones. Dusty trails one day and sloppy mud the next. Springtime is fully embracing our local woodlands. Just a blink of an eye from […]
PRACTICAL FUEL REDUCTION WORK – by Clayton Gillette
Trail Talk – April 2024
“THE ONE WHO PLANTS TREES, knowing he will never sit in their shade, has begun to understand the meaning of life.” (author unknown) We take this to heart because of recent […]
OUR WANDERING FEET – by Clayton Gillette
Trail Talk – March 2024
SPRING IS IN THE AIR and winter’s wandering thoughts of last year’s memorable hikes will soon to be replaced by the new stories our wandering feet will create along nearby trails. […]
OUR WOODLAND LANDSCAPES – by Clayton Gillette
Trail Talk – February 2024
THERE’S BEEN SOME CHANGES to our woodland landscapes near Jacksonville. A couple of major fuels reduction projects have rendered our nearby hillsides more open, and hopefully, less prone to catastrophic wildland […]
Respect Trail Closures – by Clayton Gillette
Trail Talk – Dec 2023/Jan 2024
As this is written, our Grayback Forestry crews continue the fuels reduction work in Forest Park. The contracted work will continue well into the winter, and visitors to the park […]
Fall 2023 Fuels Treatment Update: Woodlands and Forest Park – by Chris Johnson
Jacksonville Review – Dec 2023/Jan 2024
A lot has been happening in the past year in regard to hazardous fuels management in the Jacksonville Woodlands, Forest Park, and within and surrounding the City of Jacksonville. The […]
Forest Park Trail Closures for Controlled Burning
Forest Park Fuels Reduction Updates
December 6, 2023—Greyback crews are continuing with cutting, handpiling, and burning in Forest Park. We are currently able to open Rail, Siskiyou, Pipsissewa, and Eastern Halls of Manzanita Trails. The Siskiyou […]
Burning to Save Woodlands – by Clayton Gillette
Trail Talk – November 2023
The Douglas firs are dying. Numerous articles in a variety of publications have covered this phenomenon and, sadly, our local woodlands are no exception. Forecasts of 80% mortality of large firs […]