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Fall ’25 Maintenance event update
With the federal government shut down now official Buffalo National River is closed. If things are running again by end-of-day Oct 15 we will proceed with the Oct 24-Nov 1 event as planned. There is some possibility of delaying the event by a week if BNR becomes operational soon after Oct 15 but otherwise the…
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Canceled: Buffalo River Trail maintenance event – Fall ’25
Mark your calendar! The Ozark Society’s Fall ’25 BRT maintenance event will be October 25-31 so join us for a day, the weekend, or longer. We’ll be based at the Steel Creek ranch house once again. Last spring we found a couple more areas that need tread repairs but we’ll mostly be back to lopping…
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Spring ’25 Wrap-up
The Spring ’25 work session was a very productive one. We had 8 volunteers, with 5 working most or all of the week and 2 first-timers. We completed all but one tread repair project that we noted during our 2023 traverse of the trail plus a couple new ones, removed many new obstructions, and destroyed…
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Join the Ozark Society’s Spring ’25 Buffalo River Trail maintenance event
Mark your calendar! The Ozark Society’s Spring ’25 BRT maintenance event will be March 22-28 so join us for a day, the weekend, or longer. We’ll be based at the Steel Creek ranch house, continuing the tread repairs we began last fall and maybe doing some remediation of a new landslide area. I will begin…
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Fall ’24 results
We had 7 volunteers for this session, which was shortened to 4 days. We had dry weather for the duration, though the overly-warm afternoons chased us out of the woods and onto the porch to sip cold beverages. During 2 evenings we saw elk across the field from the ranch house and heard bugling occasionally…
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Fall ’24 BRT maintenance
Mark your calendar! The Ozark Society’s Fall ’24 maintenance session for the BRT will be October 19-25 so join us for a day, the weekend, or longer. We’ll be based at the Steel Creek ranch house, beginning the tread repairs we identified during the previous 2 sessions and probably a bit of brush clearing. I…
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Spring ’24 results
We had 7 volunteers contribute 225 volunteer hours while clearing almost all major obstacles from 23 miles of the BRT between Steel Creek and Pruitt. We left 2 large trees that must be crawled under and 2 that must be detoured around. Everything else was removed or at least reduced to an easy step-over. We…
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Spring ’24 BRT maintenance
Mark your calendar! The Ozark Society’s Spring ’24 maintenance session for the BRT will be March 23-29 so join us for a day, the weekend, or longer. We’ll be based at the Steel Creek ranch house again, and continue working downriver to clear major obstacles from the trail and then turn to tread repairs if…
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Fall ’23 Summary
The Fall ’23 work session for Ken’s Krew has been completed and was a great success. We had 12 volunteers in all, including 6 first-timers, and logged 291 hours. Rather than focusing on tread rehabilitation as first planned, we turned to simply getting the trail opened up – clearing a large amount of downfall from…
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Fall ’23 maintenance session
Mark your calendar! The Ozark Society’s Fall ’23 maintenance session for the BRT will be October 21-27 so join us for a day, the weekend, or longer. We’ll be working out of the Steel Creek area this time, beginning a project to rehabilitate the oldest part of the BRT. We will have use of the…
Buffalo River Trail Crew
Buffalo River Trail Crew 