Why We Are (cont'd)
All of these trails exist on National Forest Service land. In a perfect world, the FS would be able to tend these trails as part of their ongoing resource management. But this isn’t a perfect world, and the Forest Service doesn’t have the funds to manage these trails. Currently, our local district of the Tahoe National Forest only has two employees to maintain, patrol and police over 300 miles of trail. This issue – a heavily used, crucially valuable trail system that is vital to the surrounding local economies but lacking the resources to maintain itself - is what caused us, The Sierra Buttes Trail Stewardship, to be born.