Background:
local woods were hit by storm a few weeks ago, heavy forestry equipment went in, hauled a huge pile of wood out of there, left the place in a mess, with heavy machinery tracks criss-crossing the area, branches and smaller logs all over the place -> about 200 yards of flowy singletrack vanished beneath the havoc, no sign of anybody tidying it up (fair enough)
went "for a walk" there today and tried to retrace the old track, managed to "clear" about 50% of it mainly by dragging branches to the side and rolling logs out of the way, will keep doing that with minimal effort/intrusion, hope that the local dog walkers and cyclist adopt the new/old line again and will make it their own again
So far so good, now my question:
the surface of the whole area is obviously pretty scraped, hardly any of the perfect layer of fir needles and leaves on the former track is left. The soil is nice humid dark brown forest earth, no sand, no rocks. The lowlandish surroundings tend to get pretty muddy while this track was always fairly dry.
- I assume that the fir needle/leave layer helped to keep it dry - correct assumption (from your experience)?
- what can I do to recreate this/keep the track from getting muddy and wrecked (without starting major landscaping which I am neither entitled to nor interested in)?
Cheers!
