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A ledger needs dated figures from maintainers' publications; for this ground the publications yield six dated entries in twenty-five years, and the ledger prints exactly those six. 2001: the LaSalle Trail is built, 3.5 miles, Roseland to the state line (county parks / trail register carriers). 10 August 2014: the River Valley Trail's newest Michigan link opens, 3.3 miles from the state line to Brandywine Creek Nature Park, and the Tribune prints the whole Niles–Mishawaka project at 34 miles (Tribune, as republished by the Southwest Michigan Planning Commission). 2019–2023: the St. Joseph County Parks Five Year Master Plan prints its system at 33+ miles of hiking trails, one mountain-bike trail (Bendix Woods, "6-mile" on the plan's park sheet, "over 5 miles" on its park brochure — both plan-era figures, unmerged). December 2023: Next Level Trails awards a grant to complete 3.1 miles of the Grand Kankakee Marsh Trail gap northwest of North Judson, in the Starke/LaPorte corridor (Rails-to-Trails Conservancy's Great American Rail-Trail state assessment). 2026: the county's trail maps reissue with the same segment figures (St. Patrick's at approximately 6 miles of hiking trails; Bendix Woods map reissued 2026); the Friends of Berrien County Trails print the River Valley Trail at 24 connected miles. For Walkerton itself the ledger has no entry in any year: no maintainer has ever published a dated mileage figure for a trail in this town. Closure: TRUE SIZE — the ledger is complete at the size the publications support; its town column is empty in every year, and the emptiness is the finding.
Sources: St. Joseph County Parks, LaSalle Trail and Five Year Master Plan 2019–2023 (system and Bendix Woods sheets); South Bend Tribune, 10 Aug 2014; Rails-to-Trails Conservancy, Great American Rail-Trail Indiana assessment (Next Level Trails award, Dec 2023); St. Joseph County Parks trail maps, 2026 reissues; Friends of Berrien County Trails, 2026.