WHAT CAN WE DO?

Well, we could just grump and complain...or, we could organize.
We have many good equestrians groups in the Kern County Area whose members use the river trail for training and conditioning their horses.

Perhaps these groups could "adopt" a specific area of the trail. Sort of like the clean the roads campaign. A group could identify potential problems and fix it if possible or report it to the appropriate authorities. Then report their results to this blog to let us know how things are going. It is very important to network and find out which authorities can and will help us.

A couple of years ago I made MANY phone calls to county, city, and water authorities to try to get help repairing the horse bridge (missing wood planks, slippery metal, eroding holes on the "white pole" end, etc.) Since the bridge was not built by any of these entities, none would get involved.

Talk to your group, adopt a section and let us know how you are doing.

Also, I would like to thank the anonymous person who has placed some signs along the trail on the south side of the river, east of Rancho Rio (Manor Street). This is a good beginning to identify specific areas. Hopefully we can make a map with these names and furnish the maps to the police and ambulance services. A friend with a broken leg had to wait for an hour while the ambulance service tried to figure out where she was and how to get there. Fortunately, the injury was not more serious or she may have died waiting for help. So if anyone knows the man (I was told he boards at Rancho Rio) who put up the signs, maybe you could get together and draw a map.