Building a bridge with the help of 10 mules on North Dakota's Maah Daah Hey Trail

Building a bridge with the help of 10 mules on North Dakota's Maah Daah Hey Trail

BILLINGS COUNTY, N.D. — When it comes to building a bridge, there are two obvious necessities: people and equipment. If that bridge is in the western North Dakota Badlands, a crew of pack mules can help, too. On a humid, June Sunday morning, U.S. Forest Service packers drove a trailer of 10 mules to the side of East River Road along the Little Missouri National Grasslands, about 1 mile off of the Maah Daah Hey Trail and a bit farther from the mu…