4-18-17 hobbs woods maintenance concerns

Fond du Lac County officials are exploring their options on repairing the trail system through one of the county’s most popular parks.  County Parks director Sam Tobias says years of soil erosion has taken its toll on Hobbs Woods, located a few miles south of Fond du Lac.  “Right now they’re in poor shape,”  Tobias told WFDL news.  Tobias admits that maintenance has not kept up with the growing number of people using the park.  “Every year from late winter to early spring we have that thaw period.  All that water is released out of the ground, we have rains, people come out every weekend and walk those trails in the mud, and when you start walking to the edge of trails they start getting wider and wider and it just compounds the problem.”    The UW extension-agriculture ommittee discussed the issue at their meeting earlier this month.  Fond du Lac County executive Al Buechel says one potential option is building a raised board walk through portions of the park adjacent to the creek.

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