Popular Bitterroot Forest trailheads outfitted with signboards
CORVALLIS - The ring of steel against stone mixed easily with the soft murmur of the nearby creek and steady chirp of songbirds at the Mill Creek trailhead Wednesday morning.
Leaning against his post hole digger, Pat Connell was all smiles as he watched his son, Greg, take a turn with a spud bar.
"Hard to beat this office of mine, wouldn't you say?" Connell said, his eyes sweeping over the ponderosa-pine covered expanse.
The pair was on the third of four holes they needed to dig in the rock-filled soil at the base of the Bitterroot Mountains.
They weren't even breaking a sweat.
Connell was on the downhill side of his contract to install 39 new signboards at the busiest trailheads on the Bitterroot National Forest.
With a hunch that the spring could be a long one, he started installing boards last fall in the higher country. This spring and summer, short of some time off for haying season, Connell has been busy working on the rest.
The $30,000 needed to build and install the signboards came from American Recovery and Reinvestment Acts monies - more commonly called stimulus funds.
The Bitterroot National Forest received more than $10 million in stimulus monies to pay for campground upgrades, roadwork and other infrastructure maintenance, including an earlier upgrade to the Mill Creek trailhead that involved installing a new toilet, a horse trailer parking spur and some roadwork.
Stevensville Ranger District recreation specialist Gary Richtmyer said much of the work probably wouldn't have been done anytime soon without the influx of funding.
"Without the recovery funds, it could have taken us more than a decade to get all this work done," Richtmyer said. "We do what we can to keep up, but there is a lot of work that needs to be done."
The Trapper Creek Job Corps welded the new, heavy-duty steel frames and built the tongue and groove signboards for the Forest Service.
Forest Service officials will use the signboards to provide important information for hikers, bikers and horseback riders ready to explore the backcountry behind the trailheads.
People will be able to learn a little about the Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness, a bit about the local flora and fauna, and maybe even get a heads-up on troublesome bears or worrisome fires.
"There will be a lot of different kinds of information on the boards that will be useful for people," said Richtmyer.
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