Skid trail glossary and government resources

Skid trail : a random pathway travelled by ground skidding equipment while movingtrees or logs to a landing. A skid trail differs from a skid road in that stumps are cutvery low and the ground surface is mainly untouched by the blades of earth movingmachines.

[Ministry of Forests -- Government of British Columbia]

Alternative skid trail retirement options for steep terrain logging
...recontouring of skid trails were implemented on three sites in northeastern

Article 4 Harvesting Practices and Erosion Control 914, 934, 954 ...
...including where waterbreaks on roads and skid trail cause surface

EPA > Polluted Runoff (Nonpoint Source Pollution) > MMGI > Chapter ...
Avoid skid trail layouts that concentrate runoff into draws, ... trails is

EPA > Polluted Runoff (Nonpoint Source Pollution) > MMGI > Chapter ...
...the number of skid trail miles, and the number of watercourse crossings,

Washington Department of Natural Resorces
Both notices were issued for inadequate road and skid trail maintenance,

West Virginia FACE Report No. 98WV00201
One main skid trail had been made to skid trees to the landing. ... The skid

Accident Report Detail
He was pulling a turn of three logs down a 12 ft wide skid trail over

National Park Service
Any road, roadway, skid trail or area of Redwood National Park closed by a

Appendix A Photographs Photograph 1: View toward project area from ...
...used as a skid trail Photograph 7: Looking north from Peterson Reservoir to

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