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Very true!  We have built and maintained many trails over the past decades,
and if the waterbars are in place and the trails are carefully monitored,
they can survive for many years without serious damage.  Of course there
needs to be maintenance periodically, but everything needs that, whether it
be trails, or clothing, or saddles, or houses.  Your last sentence says it
very well.

Barbara McCrary

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Hickory Ridge Arabians" <hikryrdg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <ridecamp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, May 12, 2004 12:19 PM
Subject: [RC] trails


> > From your AERC Trails Chairman
>  Regarding the issue of horses and erosion.
>  Wind and rain causes erosion.  Horses do not.
>  If trails are designed to carry the load, and take into consideration
>  the amount of rain, types of soil and so forth, trails can and will
remain
>  environmentally sustainable.
>  Put another way, build it right and it will work.  Build it wrong and it
>  will come apart at the seems.
>  Jerry Fruth
>
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> The whole ride experience can be very hard, and at times you question why
> you put yourself through such abuse. But then you remember all those
> moments when you pop up over a hill and are suddenly surrounded by the
most
> stunning views.  It's just you and your horse and for a moment time stops
> and you can hear the angels sing.  Therein lies the addiction, at least
for
> me.
> ~  Leslie Beyers
>
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