Mules work in Olympic National Park every year from April to October. Washington State’s vast Olympic National Park sprawls across almost one million acres, 600 miles of trails, and 64 trailheads.

During the spring, summer, and fall, Forest Service mules work packing culverts, tools, and supplies into the backcountry under the supervision of their human handlers. It’s hard work. ”(They’re) ...

To Les Clancy's trained eye, this was a mule that needed saving. "I had a mule donation from up north and it was an extremely rough mule," Clancy recalled. "It was long-haired and wormy-looking. He ...

It's taken years of groundwork to improve a trail just south of Bloomington in Indiana's only wilderness area. Most trails are easier to maintain or reroute than the ones in the Charles C. Deam ...

It was about this time of the year when my grandfather got dragged by a team of horses. He was going down to the neighborhood store about a mile away to pick up a wagonload of chestnut railroad ties ...