Building a trail or a yellow brick road can be a scary experience. Sometimes the woodland locals gang up on you. That's what backers of the new Huckleberry Trail have discovered.
Few people live along the way, yet the trail's new neighborhood is crowded.
Federal and state agencies have notified the Huckleberry Trail to be on the lookout for threatened birds, plants, animals and American Indian artifacts. The Ellett Valley pseudotremia, a many-legged bug that lives in cracks, caves and fissures. The smoothcone flower, a small flowering herb. The New England cottontail rabbit, which has wandered farther from home than Peter Cottontail ever did. Trail planners are leaving mounds of paperwork to mark their path as they tiptoe through the habitats.