Mt Whitney Zone Forums General Discussion Mountaineers Route work project

It might be good to defer to Ken, George and other experts on this, but I'll give you a general impression, based upon lifelong exposure to the eastern forests and more recently the west.

The western forests are much more controlled and better managed. So, for example, trail work is managed down to the types of tools that may be used, the types of plants that might be transplanted, how and where check dams are to be built, etc.

I don't think that is so in the eastern forests, where local politics have had a much greater impact over a longer period ot time.