Jackson Hole News from Jackson, Wyoming • 12

12 JACKSON HOLE NEWS Wednesday, August 5, 1987 Continued from page 1 "We'll be mapping every tree," Fu-jita said. He expects to visit the site sometime this summer. Twelve people were trapped in the wilderness by the storm, but all made it out safely after a few days. "That's very lucky," the professor said. "Shoulfl it happen over Jackson or a populated area, somebody could have been killed." In the past two weeks, federal employees have been working to clear trails to open up portions of the wilderness.

Six smoke jumpers were dropped in the area north of Enos Lake on uly 28, Bridger-Teton National Forest Service spokesman Mark Van Every said. They augmented an existing trail maintenance crew, and have cleared a three-mile section of the Pacific Creek-Atlantic Creek trails. "That section is passable, but not completely cleared," said Van Every. "It's open now, but it still isn't the greatest place in the world for a horse." Another maintenance crew is working on the upper end of Pacific Creek trail north of Enos Lake, Van Every said. Mark Childress, resource assistant for the Buffalo Ranger District, said a second crew will be going in this week to work on either the fcnos Lake trail or the Falcon Creek trail.

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"Some of that money will be used for clearing trails the fall. are south of Enos Lake may not open and rerouting some sections. "When we shift regular crews to Approximately 15 mi es of trail in thi year We have to reroute some of this problem, other trails go un- tne Buffalo Ranger District were af- theEnos Lake trail because sections Finding the crews to do the work is treated," Childress continued. He fected by the high winds. The Enos are heavily covered with blowdown." a problem, Childress said.

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