Some Restoration Legacy Crew Accomplishments

The Restoration Legacy Crew has worked within the burn footprint of the 2009 Station Fire which burned 160,577 acres of the Angeles National Forest.

The steep terrain of the San Gabriel Mountains, and the Chaparral environment that we work within affords difficult challenges as well as the opportunity for great accomplishments as we restore hiking trails. Here are some of those accomplishments.

Major Accomplishments So Far

• Dawn Mine: has been completely restored! Dawn Mine is an historic hiking trail which had major sections entirely missing, either obscured by heavy brush or destroyed by erosion.

  In our 'Photos' section, you can see some photographs of Dawn Mine showing before and after work that we accomplished. Dawn Mine continues to be maintained by the RLC however the historic trail is now fully open!

  The trail work along Dawn Mine included establishing stair steps using boulders, making water crossings well-defined and reducing tripping hazards, where possible.

• Grizzly Flat: The first hiking trail that we worked on! Volunteers Thurman and Brenda hiked it, got somewhat lost on a rainy day trying to hike through it, and read that some one else had recently died on the trail.

  Because of this, we trained and started working on this trail. We cut back spanish broom on the road to get to thetrail. We have removed dozens of fallen trees ( certified chainsaw crews came in to help, too). We found original trail under fully grown in chaparral and ceanothus. We retreaded four gully sections. ROP Forestry helped restore sections of trail from Vogel Flats.

• George's Gap: This is the second trail we ever worked on. We were shocked to see the trail was virtually impassable from the trail head. We restored the 18 switchbacks going down, removed numerous fallen trees, performed major brushing, and installed water bars to slow water down on the trail to reduce erosion.
• World of Chaparral: George's Gap goes right into this trail so the Legacy Crew continued to clear the whole area so that hikers could do a loop around the Clear Creek Area. This included going over to The Pines. We removed numerous fallen trees, did major brushing, installed water bars and added rock steps.
• The Pines: The Pines is currently a closed picnic area. We worked (brushed, tree removal, tread work) the trails all around hoping that someday the Forest Service will open and use the area. We cleaned out the cabana area where everything from the Station Fire was thrown into it. The Boy Scouts of America have since installed picnic tables.
• Nature's Canteen: We were asked to open up this small trail for runners to use for races. Brushing, drainage issues addressed, and washed out areas restored.
• Trail Canyon Road: Brushed, removed fallen trees, fixed stream crossings, all the way to Lazy Lucas Camp. Lots of rock steps were made in steep areas.
• Millard Waterfall: The Forest Service had rough cut the trail yet it needed brushing, clearing, restoring. We moved the trail out of the stream bed to reduce erosion, made rock steps, and fixed the stream crossings. Since school children were using it we restored this trail so that it is now "family friendly."

  At this time trail crews are not permitted to resume work on the trail, however when the Forest Service informs us otherwise, we will resume repairs.