{"id":593,"date":"2012-12-01T11:00:22","date_gmt":"2012-12-01T18:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sbbch.org\/2012\/12\/01\/forest-service-turns-to-private-groups\/"},"modified":"2025-04-26T16:31:32","modified_gmt":"2025-04-26T22:31:32","slug":"forest-service-turns-to-private-groups","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/?p=593","title":{"rendered":"Forest Service turns to private groups"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/sbbchidaho.org\/photo\/partnership02.jpg\" title=\"West Brownlee Creek\" alt=\"West Brownlee Creek\" border=\"2\" height=\"336\" hspace=\"2\" vspace=\"2\" width=\"448\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Forest Service turns to private groups to fill in gaps left by dwindling dollars for work on trails<\/p>\n<p>By ERIC BARKER of the Tribune<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>\u00a0Backlog stats more than 20 years old<\/strong><\/em><br \/>\nBoth locally and nationally, nobody knows just how bad the trail maintenance backlog is. A 1989 audit by the Government Accountability Office, now more than 20 years old, estimated the agency faced a $200 million maintenance backlog that resulted in the loss of 5,000 miles of trail. Since that time, Forest Service budgets and the agency&#8217;s workforce have shrunk, recreation demand has grown and wildfires that exacerbate the problem have grown in size and intensity.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/sbbchidaho.org\/pdf\/breakingnewground.pdf\" title=\"Breaking New Ground\" target=\"_blank\"> Read more.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/sbbchidaho.org\/photo\/partnership01.jpg\" title=\"new trail\" alt=\"new trail\" align=\"middle\" border=\"2\" height=\"469\" hspace=\"2\" vspace=\"2\" width=\"354\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/sbbchidaho.org\/photo\/partnership03.jpg\" title=\"Marble Creek\" alt=\"Marble Creek\" align=\"middle\" border=\"2\" height=\"291\" hspace=\"2\" vspace=\"2\" width=\"389\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Forest Service turns to private groups to fill in gaps left by dwindling dollars for work on trails By ERIC BARKER of the Tribune \u00a0Backlog stats more than 20 years old Both locally and nationally, nobody knows just how bad the trail maintenance backlog is. A 1989 audit by the Government Accountability Office, now more [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-events","category-tipstrickstidbits"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=593"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10780,"href":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593\/revisions\/10780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}