Equipment Suppliers Water Proof Coating Horse Stable Fronts Door Gates Plans

Equipment Suppliers Water Proof Coating Horse Stable Stall Fronts Door Gates Plans

The Park’s General Management Plan (GMP, NPS 1980) guides development of the GGNRA and supports continuing equestrian facilities in the GGNRA southern Marin lands (see section 1.5.1 for a more detailed discussion). The Park recognizes that horseback riding is a popular means of recreation and that it expands the variety of visitor experiences available in the GGNRA. The Park desires to increase the public benefit and extend this opportunity to a greater number of visitors while improving protection of the historic and natural resources in the vicinity of the stables. The Golden Gate Dairy, Tennessee Valley, and Rodeo Valley equestrian stables were in existence at their current sites before the area became designated National Park Service in 1972, and have since continued in the GGNRA for over 35 years. These three stable operations provide boarding and Tennessee Valley stables also offer public lessons and programs. A fourth stable in Lower Tennessee Valley houses four NPS horses used in the GGNRA’s volunteer Park Horse Patrol (PHP) program, which started in 1976. The stables’ use and operation has been modified over time to reduce impacts of their operations and to increase the public benefit. Two additional locations considered in this EA, the Marincello and Lower Redwood Creek sites are currently undeveloped as stables sites but are proposed new equestrian facility locations in Alternative D.

Consequently, the availability of customary timber qualities willrun short.Annual variations in listed timbers pecies in price trend analyses due to export bans or restrictions (International Tropical Timber Organization, 2010) indicate the on-going search for alternative species and transformations in the market. In sum this results in the need to find adequate alternative timbers from regional and sustainably managed forests. However, the lack of a verified method to determine the impact resistance, respectively the kick resistance, of infill planks hinders an effective search for suitable wood species and the development of more kick-resistant infill materials.

In the search for alternatives to tropical timbers, heavy hardwoods should be considered for use for horse stable constructions because they impart quality and durability. With regard to their high shock resistance (see Table 2), wood species like hickory (Carya tomentosa), black locust (Robinia pseudoacacia) and ash (Fraxinus excelsior) may provide a high resistance against horse kicks. Likewise oak (Quercus robur), hornbeam (Carpinus betulus), birch (Betula pendula) and beech (Fagus sylvatica) may also be suitable due to their comparative high shock resistance. However, the suitability has to be verified in impact tests on real-sized infill planks.

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