[CANUFNET] Tree roots and bike trails

[stephen at ufora.ca]

Looks like they put the bricks in to bridge over the low spot between the
roots to make riding easier, not to save the roots from damage.  Bricks on
the other sides of the roots too would have been better. Not the best photo,
but all I had.  The IMBA has a manual on how to build bike trails that is
well done.

 

Stephen Smith

Urban Forest Associates

Urban Forestry & Ecological Restoration

www.ufora.ca

Office/fax 416-423-3387

Cell 416-707-2164

 

From: Shawn Gurney <SGurney at abbotsford.ca> 
Sent: October 26, 2021 11:37 AM
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Subject: RE: [CANUFNET] Tree roots and bike trails

 

Just need to put some on the outside of the roots and raise above the tops
of the roots.  Notice, in the photo, how the bark is beginning to scuff off
of the top of the root in the foreground.

 

Shawn Gurney, Dipl. Tech.

Urban Forester,

Parks, Recreation and Culture

(604) 853-5485 lcl. 5884

"Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better."
~Albert Einstein

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The mountain bikers often put stones over the roots to prevent abrasion. See
picture.

 

Stephen Smith

Urban Forest Associates

Urban Forestry & Ecological Restoration

www.ufora.ca <http://www.ufora.ca> 

Office/fax 416-423-3387

Cell 416-707-2164

 

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Subject: [CANUFNET] Tree roots and bike trails

 

Hello,

 

Does anyone have experience or thoughts on exposed tree roots within
mountain biking trails and whether more damage is caused by covering them up
with soil or leaving exposed and riding over them?

 

Thank-you!
Jessika

 

 

Jessika Corkum-Gorrill

Forest and Environmental Officer

 

City of Charlottetown

PO Box 98, 199 Queen Street

Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island

C1A 7K2

902-629-4122

 

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