BCHA Gets the Job Done with Low Impact on the Land

The BCHA recently helped renovate some public facilities using horses and mules to transport equipment.
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The Back Country Horsemen of America (BCHA) strives to ensure that everything the organization does has the lowest impact possible on the land and the environment. That’s one reason the group's members love horses and mules. Horse power is irreplaceable in the many public lands where motorized use is prohibited, such as the Bass Lake area in California's Sierra National Forest, and the Idaho Panhandle National Forests where the endangered woodland caribou makes a last stand.

Places like these need protecting, but also require occasional trail improvements. The predicament is easily solved with the use of the original horse power, the BCHA said.

Refurnishing an Historic Structure

The Selkirk Valley Chapter of Back Country Horsemen of Idaho recently used horses and mules to complete two packing assignments for the U.S. Forest Service in the Idaho Panhandle National Forests without violating the forests' “no motorized use” rule

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