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Workshops and Seminars: training and education presentations that are packed with the tools for success.

Dick and Joani Dufourd of RecConnect are a team of professional experts who are committed to providing high-quality recreation trails and facilities. Specializing in OHV trails and OHV consulting, we believe in maintaining access for the public, multiple use, and resource protection. With our extensive experience, we help our clients produce outstanding projects by assisting them in planning, location, design, or construction. We also provide training and technology transfer that gives our clients the tools they need to understand what needs to be done and how to successfully do it.

Featured Workshop: Bringing Order to Chaos in the Urban Interface

Presented March 14, 2008 at Professional Trailbuilders Association conference. Many law enforcement officers refer to the urban interface as their "Bermuda Triangle"— a place where anything and everything can happen. Every urban area has at least one area like this. In recent years, the urban growth in the Reno-Sparks area has exploded with subdivisions. In the middle of this and nearly surrounded by it, is a piece of land called Hungry Valley. Managed by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), heavy pressure for public access and public uses has changed this once remote area of 40,000 acres into an area that needs to be managed more as an urban park or open space. There are issues with trails for OHVs, equestrians, and hikers, dumping, shooting, driving for pleasure, litter, vandalism, parties and alcohol abuse, private inholdings, dog trials, a radio-controlled airfield, wildlife, visual quality and other resource impacts, and the Reno-Sparks Indian Colony. Hungry Valley is in the backyard of many subdivisions, and it IS the backyard for many residents. It is the confluence of conflicts and the attitude of NIMBYism, or Not In My Back Yard, abounds.

For more information:

Contact Dick or Joani Dufourd at 541-382-8319 or ddufourd@recconnect.biz
http://www.recconnect.biz/

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