(Fairbanks, AK) The public is invited to participate in a meeting about the Division of Forestry’s proposal to improve a seven-mile loop trail in the Rosie Creek unit of the Tanana Valley State Forest. The meeting will be held on Monday, October 14th from 7-8pm at the Potter Road Fire Station. (3205 Potter Road, Fairbanks, Alaska)
Alaska’s Division of Forestry and Board of Forestry are applying for a State Parks Recreational Trails Program Grant to improve a seven-mile loop of the Rosie Creek Trail system, within the Tanana Valley State Forest. The grant proposal will include funding to:
1) add signage for way-finding along the trail;
2) put up interpretive signs for three themes:
- fire ecology (the trail goes through the 1983 Rosie Creek Fire),
- forest research (the trail intersects 5 plantations of native and non-native species planted as trials), and
- forest management in the Interior;
3) upgrade an existing material site for better trailhead parking; and
4) maintain the existing forestry road a bit to keep it in good shape.
The Rosie Creek area offers an opportunity to combine a working state forest with a well-signed and maintained recreational trail. The forestry roads in the area are already used as trails by bikers, skiers, hunters, snowmachiners, dogsledders, runners, and other users. This project would make it easier and safer (trail signs, maintenance and better parking) and more interesting (interpretive signs) for people to use the trails, while highlighting the forestry management activities in the State Forest.
If you are not able to attend the meeting, but have comments or questions about the proposed project, please contact Alison Arians at the Division of Forestry in Anchorage at alison.arians@alaska.gov or at 907-269-8467 no later than 12 p.m. on Monday, November 4.