Trail Skills Workshop: Clearing & Closing Trails

This workshop is beginner-friendly and will cover the following topics:

-Plant identification: Identify common native and invasive plants in this area.

-Brushing & Pruning: Use pruning and brushing techniques to maximize safety, minimize visual impacts, and support healthy trailside vegetation (i.e. avoid damage to growth collar of pruned limbs, cutting saplings flush to ground, deposit clipped limbs cut side away from trail).

-Bucking & Limbing: Use proper PPE and work safe distance from cutting zone. Brushing, bucking and limbing logs in minimally complex situations using handsaws.

-Materials & Debris Management: Deposit materials from corridor using low impact techniques that do not alter natural hydrologic flow.

-Closing Trail: How to close unwanted trails through naturalizing and promoting new plant growth

Location

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19127

Trail Competencies

• Trail Construction
• • Decommissioning Trails

• Trail Maintenance
• • Corridor Clearing/Site Preparation
• • Corridor Clearing: Pruning/ Side-Cutting/ Brushing
• • Corridor Clearing: Material and Debris Management

Relevant Trail Types

• Hiking Trails
• Nature Trails
• Urban Trails