"CL (dnoyeB) Gilbert" wrote in message
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What I want to do is build a walkway that goes through the treed area,
over the marshland. I want it to go from the side of my house all the
way to the end of my property where I will put a screened in gazebo.
This is probably a 75 foot walk.

If you have the timber available (especially cedar) you
could build a corduroy road, just logs trimmed of branches
and cut to road width e.g. 6 ft., laid on the swamp surface
and jammed tightly enough together that each log keeps
the neighbours in place. It would be uncomfortable to
walk on, and would not avoid wet feet, but is cheapest
and would permit you to push a wheelbarrow etc.

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Don Phillipson
Carlsbad Springs
(Ottawa, Canada)