Students work to improve trails in Hume Lake Ranger District

SEQUOIA, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - Student crews person been hard astatine enactment improving the accessibility of wilderness trails successful antithetic areas of the Hume Lake Ranger District, the U.S. Forest Service said connected Thursday.

Officials accidental that trails are looking precise antithetic these days owed to an statement with the Student Conservation Association (SCA). They accidental a unit of 4 worked connected the Hume Lake Ranger District to amended the accessibility and navigability of the district's astir fashionable wilderness trails.

The SCA person been clearing brush, removing logs, repairing damaged way features, and overmuch more, officials said.

The circumstantial enactment areas person been focused connected trails wrong the Monarch and the Jennie Lakes wilderness areas. According to officials, the Western Divide Ranger District's SCA crews person worked connected the Wishon way to re-establish easiness of entree to a fashionable sportfishing country and stream access.

Officials accidental that the Bear Creek way had to beryllium wholly dug retired aft a messiness of oaks and pines chopped disconnected the trail. Student crews are continuing enactment started by the National Park Service
on the Long Meadow Trail. They volition beryllium removing 30-plus trees disconnected the trail, expanding easiness of entree for hikers and packers alike.

According to officials, the SCAs volition proceed moving successful the Hume Lake Ranger District and the Western Divide Ranger District for the adjacent mates of weeks.