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Re: [RC] Random Trail Surface Observation - Maryanne Stroud Gabbani

My "trails" get run over by a backhoe and have canal mud (and whatever else may be in it, and, no, you don't want to ask!) dredged up on them about twice a year. As you might imagine, large piles of fragrant mud filled with interesting aquatic plants and so on are a little less than enticing....but the farmers aren't out for fun, know that their canals are funky, and have to move on the trails anyway, so they don't complain. My experience is that it takes a week of donkey, gamoosa, sheep, goat, dog, horse, camel traffic to beat it down to just plain old dried mud and dirt. Maybe we just need to ship you all some livestock to beat down your "abused" trails. A nice herd of llamas to rent out to the parks service could be just the ticket.

Maryanne Stroud Gabbani
Cairo, Egypt
www.ratbusters.net
www.alsorat.com
"Life is what happens to you while you are busy making other plans." John Lennon


On Sunday, May 11, 2003, at 17:31 Africa/Cairo, Linda B. Merims wrote:
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?You'd never know that these paddocks had
?been a wet morass just one month ago.
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And it's the horses themselves who have solved
the problem.? Hooves make coffer dams, and hooves
also knock them down and grind them flat as the
soil dries out.? The tread in the paddock is now
flat, level, compacted dirt.
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Linda B. Merims
lbm@xxxxxxxxx
Massachusetts, USA
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