Trees go up at Ledger Creek Trailhead
The trees are part of a larger effort to increase green space and aid soil conservation, as well as recreation.
The recently opened Ledger Creek Trail system just south of Highway 30 on Bailey Creek in Soda Springs saw the first of a planned 200 trees go in at the end of last week.
Trevor Robbins stakes trees in the high wind last week.
Director of City Services Dan Squires and Mayor Paul Gritton joined Arborist Trevor Robbins at the parking area of the newly opened trail system as the first holes were dug to begin the process of turning the trail into a more arboreal area.
The trail system was built over the top of an area of town that is generally composed of loamy soil, which should make the planting of the majority of trees along the northern trail loops reasonably straightforward.
The first set of trees – those next to the parking area – were a different story. As a result of the higher clay content of the soil in that area, as well as the fact that over the course of the last few months many tons of sand have been driven over the area and compacted the clay down to a dense substrate, digging was not small feat.
There is no precise timeline for the installation of the trees along the trail, although Robbins anticipates putting in the 200 trees for the upper trails within the next months.
That allows him to look forward to one of his favorite things about projects like this. “I love when I’m working out here and people stop to talk to me about the trees, and even their own trees. It’s great, because it’s true that it takes a whole community to make something like this work.”
Trees are beginning to go up around the walking trail near Bailey Creek in Soda.
