Originally Posted By: Dogfish
When the trees fell in 2006 and 2007 windstorms in the Colonel Bob Wilderness, blocking access to trails, the "wilderness" designation hindered the clearing of those trails and added significantly to the fire danger.


The Fed. fire crews didn't go in and crosscut them out? That's what we had to do any time we weren't on fires and needed project work... nothing like days spent crosscutting logs out of trails miles into the boonies...
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