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PEP BB earthworks.straw.trailmaintain - Perform at Least 1000 Feet of Trail Maintenance

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This is a badge bit (BB) that is part of the PEP curriculum. Completing this BB is part of getting the straw badge in earthworks.

Here is a video on trail maintenance for water management to provide a little guidance.

To get certified for this BB, post pictures or a video (2 minutes or shorter) that demonstrate the following:
- trail maintenance for at least 1000 feet of trail

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I did trail maintenance on a trail that had been neglected for a while. It had started to grow over with salmonberry, sword fern, and stinging nettle and had several trees that had fallen and blocked the trail. I cut back the growth and removed the fallen trees. Total length of the section of trail I cleared was 470 of my paces which average about 3 ft so that would be 1,410 ft of trail.

I'm not sure how to show over 1000 ft of trail twice (before and after) in less than 2 minutes. I had to speed the video up 4x to get under 2 minutes, and although dizzying it is still good quality at 1080p which is what I uploaded to YouTube, but they seem to lower it to 360p which is mostly fuzziness at their default playback resolution. You can click on the video settings when viewing the video in youtube and select higher playback resolution which makes it less fuzzy. It also looks better if you keep the video window small.