EDIT: I feel like an idiot. It's boilerplate text pulled from a USFS standard.

Or did the Forest Service give this job to a sarcastic intern and nobody proofread it?

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[–] 37 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Original page.

Clearly not AI. Here's where you can find the trail types, OP, including "standard terra trail". As @wjrii@lemmy.world notes, it's used to distinguish from things like snow trails.

And here's where you can find, centralized, that verbatim definition. It's pulling from a prebaked list of definitions as @Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe suggests.

a. Standard Terra Trail: A trail that has a surface consisting predominantly of the ground and that is designed and managed to accommodate use on that surface.

b. Snow Trail: A trail that has a surface consisting predominantly of snow or ice and that is designed and managed to accommodate use on that surface.

c. Water Trail: A trail that has a surface consisting predominantly of water (but may include land-based portages) and that is designed and managed to accommodate use on that surface.

That's a reasonable way to express it when other options are "predominantly not the ground".

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