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skid road
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skid row, skid road
In the United States, an area in a community characterized by cheap barrooms, saloons, and run-down hotels; usually a gathering place for derelicts, vagrants, and down-and-out alcoholics.
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However, the loggers left an unexpected surprise--flat skid roads bladed down to bare soil.
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In Linn County, RMEF money will be used to thin vegetation on 400 acres and seed six miles of abandoned skid roads to improve forage for elk, thin 100 acres of lodgepole pine, transplant aspen and construct exclosure fencing to restore habitat, all within the Willamette National Forest.
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[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] We got our maps out and penciled in our destination at the end of some old skid roads.
Overnight elk: when warming up for a major hunt, don't forget your ... by Knox, James / Petersen's Bowhunting
 
 
 
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