The
Trail Ahead Needs All of Us, by Roger Bell, Vice-Chair,
American Trails
From Trail Tracks to the American
Trails Magazine
By Robert Searns, Chair, American Trails Board
AMERICAN TRAILS HAS come into its own in its unceasing mission
to promote trails and greenways accessible to all Americans. Our
website now receives over 100,000 visits a month with people hungering
for more information about finding trails, using trails, and creating
new high quality trails and greenways. Trail Tracks,
our highly successful newsletter has now re-emerged as American
Trails Magazine. We hope you will enjoy our new name and
continue to enjoy the straightforward, no-nonsense trails and greenway
advice that is the Trail Tracks tradition. Please note also that
Trail Tracks will live on. We have bestowed this name on our new
op-ed section that will appear in each edition of American Trails
Magazine.
We invite you to be a part of Trail Tracks. Send your comments,
letters, or maybe an editorial or opinion piece submittal to Stuart
Macdonald, editor of American Trails Magazine, at trailhead@americantrails.org.
We also continue to encourage your articles about great trails,
great trail and greenway planning and design, accessibility, trail
safety, and other topics our readers will want to read. On behalf
of the Board of Trustees of American Trails, let me extend a heartfelt
expression of gratitude to Roger Bell for his dedicated years of
service as National Chair of the Board of American Trails. Roger,
American Trails would not be what it is today without you! Roger
continues to serve on our board as Vice-Chair. We also thank Pam
Gluck, our steadfast Executive Director and her excellent staff
Mike Bullington and Candace Mitchell, as well as our longtime webmaster
and American Trails Mazazine editor, Stuart Macdonald.
Help Celebrate Trails in 2006
With National Trails Day Events
Saturday, June 3, 2006 is time to "Experience Your Outdoors"
with a National Trails Day event. ¥ Educate people of all ages about
trails and how they promote a healthy lifestyle ¥ Organize a trail
maintenance project ¥ Dedicate a new trail ¥ Plan guided outdoor
walks ¥ Excite all generations of trail users with activities for
the entire family Register your event and American Hiking Society
will: ¥ Send you free National Trails Day posters ¥ Provide you
with a free National Trails Day event banner ¥ Promote your event
on the American Hiking Society website American Hiking Society thanks
its 2005 National Trails Day partners for their support: ¥ Corporate
Sponsors: Adventure Medical Kits, Backpacker, Eastern Mountain Sports,
Merrell, REI, Royal Robbins, & Thorlos. ¥ Federal Partners: Bureau
of Land Management, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention,
Federal Highway Administration, National Park Service, USDA Forest
Service, and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
Visit the website at www.NationalTrailsDay.org
to register your event and to download the National Trails Day Event
OrganizerÕs Manual. Questions? Contact Ivan Levin, Trail Programs
Manager, 1422 Fenwick Lane, Silver Spring, MD 20910. Call (301)
565-6704 x208 or email NTD@AmericanHiking.org
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