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Training
Module 1
TRAIL PLANNING: 3 Days
Lecture and field exercises covering the following topics:
- Developing a vision
- Inventory
- Components of a plan
- Determining trail system design
- Developing Trail Management Objectives
(TMOs)
- Determining trail user needs
- Environmental resource considerations
- Facility considerations: trailheads, signs, visitor information
Module 2
TRAIL LAYOUT AND DESIGN: 2 Days
Lecture and field exercises covering the following topics:
- Inventory
- Specifications
- Trail Management Objectives (TMOs)
- Using aerial photos and topographical maps
- Layout
- Flag lines and staking
- Trail logs and Engineer's construction logs
Module 3
TRAIL CONSTRUCTION: 3+ Days
Lecture and field exercises covering the following topics:
- Safety and Job Hazard Analysis
- Required tools
- Trail Management Handbook – FSH 2309.18 and Trail
Management Objectives (TMOs)
- Trail surveying, logs, design and
layout
- Trail construction and specifications – EM 7720-102
- Water control – Rolling dip
- Switchbacks versus climbing turns
- Retaining walls – Surface hardening
- Trail publications
Module 4
MECHANIZED TRAIL EQUIPTMENT TRAINING AND CERTIFICATION: 2-5 Days
(5 Days for Certification)
Lecture and field exercises covering the following topics:
- Safety and Job Hazard Analysis
- Controls
- Components and power systems
- Maintenance (daily & annual) and repairs
- Trail design, layout, water control, building rolling dips
- Field Project (OJT) – New construction, reconstruction and maintenance
Module 5
ADVANCED MECHANIZED TRAIL CONSTRUCTION TECHNIQUES: 10 Days
Lecture and field exercises covering the following topics:
- Pretest
- Safety and Job Hazard Analysis
- Standards and Guidelines for mechanized trail work
- Trail Management Objectives (TMOs)
- Trail Management Handbook – FSH 2309.1
- Trail surveying for construction & reconstruction
- Layout and design
- Trail construction specifications and drawings
- Retaining walls
- Overside, underside, and pipearch drainage
- Surface hardening and underdrains
- Trail publications
Module 6
MONITORING: 2-3 Days
Lecture and field exercises covering the following topics:
- Needs determination
- Type of monitoring
- Implementation
- Forms
- Schedules
- Collection
- Recording
- Reporting
Module 7
OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE: 3+ Days
Lecture and field exercises covering the following topics:
- Trail Management Objectives (TMOs)
- Maintenance guidelines
- Operational guidelines
- Patrols
- Volunteers
- Associations
- Maintenance techniques
- Maps and brochures
- Signs
- Reporting and recording
Module 8
SOUND MANAGEMENT AND ENFORCEMENT: 1+ Days
Lecture and field exercises covering the following topics:
- The nature of sound
- Legal requirements
- FS role in muffler certification
- 20" test
- OHV nature of testing
- Actual field testing
- Learning "tricks of the trade"
Module 9
CONTRACTING: 2 Days
Lecture and field exercises covering the following topics:
- Interpreting trail and construction logs
- Types of tools, usage and safety
- How to construct
- Water control and drainage
- Trail heads, camps and information displays
- Climbing and switchback turns
- Tread
- Retaining walls
- Bridges and culverts
- Hardening
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