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• Acquisition & land preservation
• Rails to trails
• Greenways & riverways
• Planning trails
• Community Trail Systems
• Federal land and policies

Acquisition of land, easements, and rights of way for trails and greenways; purchase and donations; legal, ownership, and real estate issues; private land and trails in housing developments; multi-use corridors including active and abandoned rail lines, railbanking, utility and powerline easements, highways, and canals:

 

• Partners lead acquision of mountain for Cumberland Trail in Tennessee
• Abandoned strip mine to become Northumberland County (PA) OHV park and trail system
• Fayetteville Natural Heritage Association leads land conservation effort
• Ammunition plant becomes vast new nature park and trail system
• Schuylkill River Greenway land deals benefit both industry and public access
• Partnership enables Tahoe-Pyramid Bikeway to cross Pyramid Indian Reservation land
• Cedar Rapids plans to buy out floodplain owners next to Cedar River for 220-acre greenway
• Protecting Landscapes: land for recreation and land for re-creation, By Will Rogers, President, Trust for Public Land
• Alberta Recreation Corridor issues (pdf 383kb)

 

Easements, licenses, and other cooperative agreements for public use of trail corridors:

• Public Trails and Private Lands: Conservation and Trail Easements, Licenses, and Recreational Liability
• Legal Agreements for Trails: easements, licenses, and agreements for trail rights-of-way
• "Joint Trails Project Plan and Agreement" between City of San Jose and Water District (pdf 892 kb)
• Alaska Heritage Trails Program easements and corridor protection
• Massachusetts Conservation Restriction Handbook (pdf 292 kb): preserve land without public ownership and allow, in many instances, for public access

 

Managing and protecting trail corridors and rights-or-way:

• Monitoring and maintaining the protected corridor boundaries along the Appalachian Trail, A.T. Journeys (pdf 380 kb)

 

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• Photo gallery: Electric transmission lines along trails, railtrails, and greenways
• Photo gallery: Albertson Parkway in San Jose's Santa Teresa neighborhood follows PG&E overhead lines
• Power line trails: safe management and development
• Power line corridor trail: Lower Silver Creek Trail in San Jose
• Electrophobia: Overcoming fears of EMFs

 

• Transportation and utility corridors for trails
• Trails in controlled access hwy rights-of-way
• Highway extension evolves into park and trail project
• Rails with trails: case studies from across America
• MetroLink light rail corridor in Illinois would include trail
• See more on trails in abandoned railroad corridors

• Chesapeake & Delaware Canal Recreation Study from US Army Corps of Engineers
• Levee trail along the Coyote-Alamitos Canal in California's Bay Area
• Mississippi River levees proposed for trail corridor
• Pros and cons of trails along irrigation trail
• Irrigation Canals for Recreational Trail Use: An Evaluation of Issues and Concerns
• See more Water Trail Resources and projects

 

 

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