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ARRMC Trail Maintenance What is trail maintenance? Who does the trail maintenance? Why is trail maintenance
necessary? Do you ever ask yourself how do these trails exist? The answer
is simple, the trails exist because of OHV riders just like yourself. They volunteer one Saturday a month to work on
the trail system. This work can vary from cleaning up trash to installing and maintaning new trails. The event
schedule contains the dates of these work parties, time, and meeting place. These
dates are not the only opportunities to work on the trail system. There are many members that perform work on the trails
at other times than what is listed on the events page. Due to the amount of riders and type of weather that Oregon has
there are a multitude of opportunities to work on the trail system. This work is as easy as removing rocks and tree
limbs from trails to installing culverts and bridges on the trails. Some guide lines for performing trail maintenance
are as follows: Keep trails to a minium width. Target width is
50 inches. Perform the work with minimal impact as possible. Verify that no fire restrictions are in affect that limits the use of chainsaws and OHV's.
ARRMC owns numerous types of tools that can be used by anyone wanting to get involved with
trail maintenance. These tools are typically located in Salem and Dallas. Through the OHV sticker program ARRMC
has many hand tools, chainsaws, weed eaters, a Polaris 6x6 with trailer, and a 12 foot enclosed trailer to transport the tools.
If you are interested in using these tools please contact ARRMC. If you do trail
maintenance, ARRMC needs the number of volunteers, hours worked (including travel time), trails names, and type of work completed.
Please email this information to info@arrmc.com. The number of volunteer hours are used each year to obtain supplies and grants for the next year.
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