Friends of Scotchman Peaks Wilderness announce 2018 trail work schedule

Friends of Scotchman Peaks Wilderness is honoring the 50th anniversary of the National Trails System this summer with 11 days of work scheduled on numerous trails within the proposed wilderness area along the Idaho and Montana border.

The work schedule is as follows:

June 2: Cross Cut and Trail Training, Trail No. 999, 1.5 miles clearing and tread work, Cabinet Ranger District

June 23: Scotchman Peak Trail No. 65, 2 miles clearing and tread work, Sandpoint

July 7: Trails No. 999 and No. 998, 2 miles clearing and tread work, Cabinet

July 21: Goat Mountain Trail No. 135, 1 mile tread work, Sandpoint

July 28: Big Spar Lake No. 142A, 2 miles clearing and tread work, Three Rivers Ranger District

Aug. 11: Little Spar Lake Trail No. 142, 2 miles clearing and tread work, Three Rivers

Aug. 25: East Fork Peak Trail No. 563, 1 miles clearing and trailhead rebuild, Sandpoint

Sept. 7-9: Napoleon Gulch Trail No. 1035, 4 miles clearing and tread work, Cabinet

Sept. 29: National Public Lands Day, Trails No. 132 and No. 556, 3 miles clearing and tread work, Sandpoint

Since 2010, “FSPW staff and volunteers have provided thousands of hours of human power — and FSPW has provided the tools — to repair tread, build water bars, cut brush, clear blow downs, and build entirely new sections of trail to replace old alignments that were unsustainable or horrific to hike because they were not designed correctly in the first place,” states a news release. “The FSPW crew works alongside partners like youth crews from the Montana Conservation Corps and regular USFS trail crews.”

Learn more about trail work in the Scotchmans at scotchmanpeaks.org/events or email trails@scotchmanpeaks.org.

Learn more about USFS volunteer opportunities at www.fs.fed.us/working-with-us/volunteers.

President Lyndon B. Johnson signed into law The National Trail System Act in October of 1968, four years after he signed the Wilderness Act.