Dig Day Maintenance Handbook
This Handbook covers important techniques and tools which can be used to address a majority of trail maintenance projects, such as 1) repairing damaged trail tread with full bench construction, 2) building surface water or drainage control structures, 3) armoring drain swales or 4) brushing and clearing.
Trail maintenance work should be built-to-last, which means not returning to the same trail each year for similar type of work. Seasonal cleanup maintenance is fine, but repeat, intensive repair or enhancement efforts is not. That should happen once every 7 years.
This Handbook covers important techniques and tools which can be used to address a majority of trail maintenance projects, such as 1) repairing damaged trail tread with full bench construction, 2) building surface water or drainage control structures, 3) armoring drain swales or 4) brushing and clearing.
Trail maintenance work should be built-to-last, which means not returning to the same trail each year for similar type of work. Seasonal cleanup maintenance is fine, but repeat, intensive repair or enhancement efforts is not. That should happen once every 7 years.
This Handbook covers important techniques and tools which can be used to address a majority of trail maintenance projects, such as 1) repairing damaged trail tread with full bench construction, 2) building surface water or drainage control structures, 3) armoring drain swales or 4) brushing and clearing.
Trail maintenance work should be built-to-last, which means not returning to the same trail each year for similar type of work. Seasonal cleanup maintenance is fine, but repeat, intensive repair or enhancement efforts is not. That should happen once every 7 years.