Ok.. try this.. your commas, quotation marks, plus marks, etc are all messed up.

[T]he municipal government moved ahead with plans to railbank the 5-mile segment between Astoria and Tongue Point under the guidelines of the National Trail Systems Act.

Passion […] makes us brutal and sanguinary.

Palaeoichnology would indeed be refined if the originator of each series of trails could be determined as to species, following which normal biosystematic nomenclature would be available.