Explore Oregon Podcast: The state's most beautiful places and biggest issues

Trailkeepers of Oregon work to save trails amid federal cuts to funding, public lands


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Host Zach Urness talks with Trailkeepers of Oregon executive director Steve Kruger about the group's mission and how federal cuts and a funding freeze could make it difficult to maintain hiking trails on public lands this summer and in future years.
Kruger talks about the work TKO does in using volunteers to clear, fix and maintain trails, in addition to building bridges. He then talks about how a federal cuts and a funding freeze — in which agreed to grants and payments aren't being distributed — appears likely to hamper maintaining trails in the foreseeable future.
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