Trails Skill Library - Trail Sustainability

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Wilderness Foundation

Trail Sustainability

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Trail Sustainability 〰️

Flathead Trails Association is working to add trail skills into our trainings. In the fall of 2024 we plan to begin offering trainings these trainings will include strategies and lessons from The Trails Skill Project. This competency framework provides a shared language around trail skills and expertise.

Skill Definition: Understand and apply principles of trail sustainability to all components of a trail construction project.

Entry Level Performance: Demonstrate understanding of trail sustainability as it relates to physical durability, resource conservation, user expectations and experience, and ongoing management

Full Performance Level: Apply trail sustainability principles to all components of a trail construction project (i.e. drainage, sheet flow, slope, soil types, users, maintainability)

Expert Level Performance: Assess and integrate local conditions and situations into the application of sustainability principles (i.e. trail users types/skill levels, soil type, localized weather trends, resource concerns, management regimes, stewardship capacity, etc.)

Read more about Trail Sustainability here!