• Half-baked trails? The Case For Trails: Well Done, Medium Rare, and Works in Progress, by Bob Searns
• Touching Lives: our job as trails advocates by Pam Gluck, Executive Director, American Trails
• Champions fight the good fight in quest for trails; by Robert Searns
• A Facilitator's Guide for AmeriCorps members (pdf 765kb)
• Tips on Meeting with Congressional Offices
• The 10 Habits of Highly Successful Advocates
• Finding More Advocates
• Arizona Trail Association wins Trails for Tomorrow Award
• Trails Action Guide, by the North Carolina Horse Council
• How to be a Better Trail Advocate, NYC Greenways System (pdf 4.2 gb)

• A Vision for Future Equestrian Trails Conferencing
• New map puts BATCO "on the map:" a tale of perseverance and reward
• Close the Gaps ride promotes completion of East Coast Greenway
• Trails of Lights: Events in Texas and Missouri
• Tips on improving your trails website, by Christopher Douwes
• Hit the Web: promoting your trail in cyberspace
• Events on the trails promote NRT designation
• Congress Gets Behind IMBA's Take a Kid Mountain Biking Effort
• Utah Trails Promotion: Planning your event (pdf 188 kb)
• Planning events to showcase trails
• Cedar Falls, Iowa, Trails Festival highlights trail system
• National Trails Day Event Organizers Manual from American Hiking Society (pdf 733 kB)
• Event Organizers Manual International Trails Day: First Saturday in June (pdf 138 kb)
• Ideas for statewide trails events for National Trails Day
• Write more effective letters to elected officials and politicians
• Writing the pursuasive letter to the editor
• Giving the knock-out media interview

	Trails advocate Joan Hobson working with Florida's Governor and state legislature

• Building Mountain Bike Mecca: IMBA's New Ride Center Initiative
• Teton Valley grows a trail system
• Arkansas faces a trails funding crisis: the benefits of working collaboratively
• Equestrian Land Protection Guide is now available from Equestrian Land Conservation Resource
• Trails 101: A primer on trail building
• IMBA Signs Breakthrough Agreement with National Park Service
• Sample agreement among land manager, landowner, and trail organization (Austin, TX area)
• The History of Horse Trails: equestrians join the fight for trails and access, by Denise Maxwell
• Mountain Bikers: How to Preserve Your Access to Public Trails
• Mountain bikers: environmentally aware, socially responsible, individually proactive
• Ski resorts can advance mountain bicycling opportunities
• Top 10 Ways (Plus 1) to Work with a Developer
• CDTA Rounds Up Congress for Trail Funding
• Northern New Mexico throws up political roadblock to the Continental Divide Trail
• Contact your Members of Congress

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