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  • Before We Hit the Woods, Someone's Got to Maintain the Trails

    Amanda Garant, PrairiePopulist.org|Updated Apr 6, 2018

    It's rare to find something that four out of five folks agree upon these days. But that is how many Montanans - 81 percent of us - recreate outside, whether we're hunting, snowmobiling, fishing or picnicking. When we're out in the woods, how often do we think of the trails we're using? Do we consider the hardworking crews that hike hundreds of miles each summer lugging saws and pulaskis into the backcountry to maintain our expansive trail system? Those men and women work...