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White Mountain National Forest Three Ponds Area Trail Relocation Project United States Department of Towns of Ellsworth and Agriculture Warren, Grafton County, NH Forest Forest Service 30-Day Comment Eastern Report Region Prepared by the Pemigewasset Ranger District August 2013 National Mountain For Information Contact: Justin Preisendorfer White Mountain National Forest 71 White Mountain Drive Campton, NH 03223 Phone: 603 536-6105 Fax: 603 536-3685 http://www.fs.usda.gov/projects/whitemount ain/landmanagement/projects White Three Ponds Area Trail Relocation Project – 30-Day Comment Report This document is available in large print. Contact the Pemigewasset Ranger District White Mountain National Forest 603-536-6105 TTY 603-536-3665 The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) prohibits discrimination in all its programs and activities on the basis of race, color, national origin, sex, religion, age, disability, political beliefs, sexual orientation, and marital or family status. (Not all prohibited bases apply to all programs.) Persons with disabilities who require alternative means for communication of program information (Braille, large print, audiotape, etc.) should contact USDA’s TARGET Center at (202) 720-2600 (voice and TDD). To file a complaint of discrimination, write USDA, Director, Office of Civil Rights, Room 326-W, Whitten Building, 1400 Independence Avenue, SW, Washington, DC 20250-9410 or call (202) 720- 5964 (voice and TDD). USDA is an equal opportunity provider and employer. Cover photo: Aerial view of Three Ponds area showing the Three Ponds, Foxglove Pond to the north and the long wetlands of Brown Brook Bog. Photo courtesy of USDA Farm Agency. Printed on Recycled Paper 2 Three Ponds Area Trail Relocation Project – 30-Day Comment Report Map 1. Three Ponds Project Area Project Ponds 1.Three Map 3 Three Ponds Area Trail Relocation Project – 30-Day Comment Report Introduction The Pemigewasset Ranger District of the White Mountain National Forest (WMNF) is seeking your input on a proposal to relocate snowmobile trails in the Three Ponds area. The proposal includes constructing new trail segments to be managed for winter motorized recreation and removing motorized use from some existing trails where dual use (winter motorized and year-round nonmotorized use) currently exists. This report includes the purpose and need for the project, a description of the proposed action, the decision to be made, and information on how you can submit comments on this project to the Forest Service. Background North of Rumney N.H.’s Stinson Lake lies a large wetland complex that stretches across the border between the towns of Ellsworth and Warren. A number of ponds dot the area and for more than 100 years they’ve attracted recreational visitors who have come to hunt, fish, hike, snowmobile and snowshoe. Originally known as the Glen Ponds, Moses Sweetser mentioned them in his 1876 guidebook The White Mountains. “A rude path runs northwest from the steam saw-mill near the head of [Stinson Lake] to the Glen Ponds (or Little Ponds)…They are famous for trout, are visited every year by parties of fishermen, who build camps in the vicinity.” The rude path described in Sweetser’s book was eventually turned into a logging road and by 1925 the route begins to appear on U.S. Forest Service (USFS) maps as a rough road. The alignment shown on the 1925 USFS map is similar to the section of today’s Three Ponds Trail south of the ponds following Sucker Brook (then called Stinson’s Brook). A trail specifications sheet from 1926 and kept on file at the WMNF Headquarters in Campton, N.H. calls for the clearing and establishment of a 5-mile trail that follows “the old logging road” to the largest of the area ponds before veering east to intercept Brown Brook (then called Moulton Brook) which it then followed back to the road close to the starting point. This loop was initially called the Stinson Brook-Moulton Brook Trail but after both brooks were renamed and additional trail segments added the existing trail became portions of today’s Three Ponds, Donkey Hill Cut-off and Mount Kineo 4 Three Ponds Area Trail Relocation Project – 30-Day Comment Report trails. A 1928 U.S. Geological Survey map shows the above mentioned trails as well as the modern-day extension of the Mount Kineo Trail to Hubbard Brook and a footpath to the ponds from the northwest that would later become the Batchelder Brook Snowmobile Trail (see Map 2). The names for the area brooks that are most commonly used today are also shown on this map. Map 2. 1928 edition of USGS Rumney quadrangle. While the trails continued to be popular with foot travelers the advent of the jeep began to cause problems and a 1958 letter from then district ranger Ken Sutherland to Forest Supervisor Gerald Wheeler stated that the USFS would 5 Three Ponds Area Trail Relocation Project – 30-Day Comment Report “have to plan on tractor work to maintain and install adequate drainage.” Though wheeled vehicle access was soon shut down snowmobiles would follow within a decade and most of the area trails began to be managed for both hiking and snowmobiling. Forest Service files indicate that by the early 1970’s snowmobile use was well established on the Three Ponds, Donkey Hill and Mount Kineo trails. While the WMNF continued to provide maintenance for the hiking community that used these trails a local snowmobile club by the name of the Bruhawachet Sno Trackers was formed and began the formidable task of keeping the trails maintained to a standard that would allow snowmobiles and eventually grooming equipment such as snowcats and snow tractors. Over the course of the last 30 years there have been a number of minor changes to the trails in the Three Ponds area. Most of these alterations have been to better accommodate snowmobile traffic and the associated trail grooming equipment. Although most sections of trail are used by both hikers and snowmobiles there are numerous areas where the uses diverge and two separate trail alignments are found. This is especially true where the trails intersect the wetlands complex formed by the Three Ponds, Foxglove Pond and Brown Brook Bog. As an example the Three Ponds hiking trail skirts the eastern edge of the largest pond where the terrain isn’t suitable for snowmobiles. As a result the snowmobile version of the trail crosses directly over the pond (when frozen) and cannot be accessed by grooming equipment making it difficult to maintain. In December of 2009 the Bruhawachet Sno-Trackers (Rumney/Ellsworth) in conjunction with the Central NH Snowmobile Club (Campton/Thornton) proposed a joint project to relocate a section of snowmobile trail. Their proposal included removing snowmobile use from the Three Ponds Trail in the section between the largest pond and the trail’s northern terminus where it intersects the Batchelder Brook and Warren to Woodstock (W2W) snowmobile trails. It also included constructing a new section of trail to the north of the wetlands and south of Whitcher Hill which would allow the Clubs to avoid crossing the largest pond but still connect to the W2W Trail which doubles as NH State Primary Trail 153. The project was listed on the WMNF Schedule of Proposed Actions for the first time on April 1, 2011. Tropical Storm Irene struck the Northeast in August 2011 and caused an estimated $10 million of damage to the WMNF. As a result many projects including the Three Ponds Snowmobile Trail relocation were temporarily 6 Three Ponds Area Trail Relocation Project – 30-Day Comment Report dropped from the Forest’s program of work. In July 2012 the project proposal was resurrected and a meeting was held at WMNF headquarters to discuss next steps. Both snowmobile clubs attended along with the Forest Service and representatives from the NH Trails Bureau. Together the group made modifications to the original proposal and developed the proposed action covered in this document. Purpose and Need for Action The purpose of the proposal is to provide safer and more direct access to major snowmobile routes while removing redundant use from trails that are also managed for hiking. Additionally the proposal would remove the vast majority of motorized use from the wetland complex thereby reducing impacts to water quality and wildlife that depend on the area. The proposal was developed on a variety of needs for action. The project proponents (the snowmobile clubs) feel strongly that there is a need to address safety concerns that currently exist where snowmobiles cross frozen bodies of water (Middle Pond and Brown Brook). There are also concerns that when the area receives a mid-winter thaw the many small drainage channels that cross trails and empty into wetlands melt out and leave deeply gouged trenches that pose an additional safety hazard to riders. Addressing this concern on the existing alignment would necessitate the construction of many trail structures such as box culverts, creating a large amount of infrastructure that would be costly to install and maintain. Moving the trails to locations higher on the slope will eliminate the need for many of these crossings. There is also a need to relocate snowmobile use to more appropriate terrain because the existing snowmobile trails were generally superimposed on preexisting hiking trails without regard for the amount of use and maintenance they would eventually see. While dual-use trails can exist without issue, for those in poorly drained areas such as the Three Ponds wetlands complex, any work that is done to the trails for snowmobile use generally requires heavy equipment. This work must be done when the ground is not frozen and some of the trail sections in need of repair have been difficult to access due to excessively wet soils.
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