During the spring, summer, and fall, Forest Service mules work packing culverts, tools, and supplies into the backcountry under the supervision of their human handlers. It’s hard work. ”(They’re) ...
It's taken years of groundwork to improve a trail just south of Bloomington in Indiana's only wilderness area. Most trails are easier to maintain or reroute than the ones in the Charles C. Deam ...
It was about this time of the year when my grandfather got dragged by a team of horses. He was going down to the neighborhood store about a mile away to pick up a wagonload of chestnut railroad ties ...
PORT ANGELES, Wash. — At 6:30 a.m. in Olympic National Park's Elwha Valley, this team prepares for the day. They get paid in scenery — and carrots. "These are kind of the freight trains of the ...
Everyone knows the expression “stubborn as a mule.” More than a tired cliché, however, that is a doltish misperception, foisted upon us by the least adept of mule handlers. In the words of a real ...
Meet the American Mammoth Jackstock draft mule, bred by George Washington for its tall and sturdy stance, with thick legs and massive well-made head. Despite a long history of livestock breed ...
To Les Clancy's trained eye, this was a mule that needed saving. "I had a mule donation from up north and it was an extremely rough mule," Clancy recalled. "It was long-haired and wormy-looking. He ...
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