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\u201cWe’re cutting large trees that are dangerously suspended over <\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n the trails, trees large enough to cause death.\u201d<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n HRM:<\/strong> Trail managers are frustrated. Cleaning up after Hurricane Fiona is hard enough but some trail users are making that job harder.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Mike Lancaster, who does forestry and trail management consulting, says there are still lots of unstable trees and limbs in the woods. He says too many people are ignoring \u201ctrail closed\u201d signs and putting themselves and trail crews in danger.<\/p>\n\n\n\n “The post-storm tree work to get the trails open is extremely dangerous to complete,\u201d says Lancaster. \u201cHaving people come onto the trails when they’re not supposed to makes it even more dangerous, not just for the trail user but also for me. We’re cutting large trees that are dangerously suspended over the trails, trees large enough to cause death.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate banner=”31″]<\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate banner=”72″]<\/p>\n\n\n\n Janet Barlow is the executive director of Hike NS. She says hikers have a role to play in getting these trails open again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cIf you\u2019re impatient to get back onto closed trails, one way to speed things along is to contact your local trail group and offer to help,\u201d says Barlow. <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cBe sure to help out only under the direction of the trail group, that is don\u2019t take it upon yourself to do trail clearing on your own.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate group=”6″]<\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate banner=”148″]<\/p>\n\n\n\n Barlow worries many people underestimate the skill required to clear these uprooted trees.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cIt is one thing to cut a freestanding tree,\u201d she says. <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cBut these fallen or half-fallen trees are under a lot of pressure and only those with specific training and experience should attempt to cut them.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Another way to help out is to donate to your local trail group.<\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate banner=”34″]<\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate banner=”169″]<\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate banner=”182″]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [adrotate banner=”93″] [adrotate banner=”105″] \u201cWe’re cutting large trees that are dangerously suspended over the trails, trees large enough to cause death.\u201d HRM: Trail managers are frustrated. Cleaning up after Hurricane Fiona is hard enough but some trail users are making that job harder. Mike Lancaster, who does forestry and trail management consulting, says there are […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":31133,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[957],"tags":[3048,121,48,4380],"class_list":["post-32204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-hike-n-s","tag-hrm","tag-n-s","tag-trail-group"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32204\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}