Tread Lightly! has new series of quick-tips brochures

To provide recreationists with some simple ways to minimize their impact on the environment, the nonprofit organization Tread Lightly!® has expanded its quick-tips brochure series and made it available to members and government organizations at no cost except shipping and handling.

One-page brochures now available include tips for off-highway motorcycling, mountain biking, Geocaching, ATV riding, hunting with ATVs, four-wheeling, snowmobiling, personal watercraft use, camping, fishing, hunting, horseback riding, backcountry skiing, hiking, sand duning and water recreation.

"Tread Lightly! is always looking for the best ways to spread our critical message to the public," said Lori Davis, Tread Lightly!'s executive director. "I think our simple tips are going to become habits for hundreds of thousands of people thanks to these brochures and their sponsors."

The materials were printed with funding from the Ford Motor Company Fund, Land Rover, Cabela's and the Federal Highway Administration's Recreational Trails Program.

They can be requested from Tread Lightly!'s website at www.treadlightly.org or by calling 1-800-966-9900.

The tips are replacing Tread Lightly!'s in-depth guidebook series as the organization's free educational piece. Guidebooks will now be available for 30¢ each for members and are also downloadable on the website. All Tread Lightly!'s educational materials are also available for download at no cost.

Tread Lightly!(R) is a national nonprofit organization whose mission is to empower generations to enjoy the outdoors responsibly. Tread Lightly!'s strategic educational message, along with its training and stewardship initiatives are designed to instill an ethic of responsibility in outdoor enthusiasts and the industries that serve them. Tread Lightly! offers unique programs and services to help remedy current recreation issues. In 2003, the federal government recognized this by acknowledging Tread Lightly! as a sole-source service provider of education and training on how to be environmentally and socially responsible while using motorized and mechanized vehicles in off-highway settings.