Project Impacts

Positive impacts

• A protected trail would lower the future maintenance/restoration costs

• May potentially bring more people to the area

  • Local businesses may benefit (Maverick, Little America Hotel/Gas Station, ect.)

Negative impacts

• Construction may inhibit the use of the trail

Positive impacts

• The Design would protect the aesthetics of the area

• Promote more recreational use within the trail

• Provide an opportunity for locals to gain a better quality of life through trail usage

Negative impacts

• Construction on new cross-sections would have environmental effect to existing ecosystem

• Promote more recreational use within the trail

Positive impacts

• The ecosystem would stabilize with new vegetation growth

• Design will inhibit out-of-control erosion which would protect the banks