This webinar is presented by Hank Osborn, Director of Programs, New York - New Jersey Trail Conference. Managing High-Use Trails – This webinar, presented October 1, 2020, will cover how trail steward and trailbuilding programs have worked to make the public better informed, more responsible trails users while protecting the resource.Trail Master Steward, Introduction Course – "The Trail Master Steward online course is intended to provide volunteers, trail organizations, and land managers both a foundational understanding of the values inherent in trail stewardship as well as introduce the basic skills required to be steward of our trail resources." This course, which costs only ten dollars, is offered through Utah State University and can help train trail stewards to be as effective, efficient, and safe as they can be.Without this robust trail stewardship network, we will be unable to address the deferred maintenance needs which sustain the growth and productivity of the high-performing outdoor recreation economic sector.īelow, we have gathered resources that you can use to support your existing stewardship network or create a new one in an area that needs this critical workforce. Uniquely, the management and maintenance of our nation’s trail network is largely supported by trail stewardship organizations and volunteers who leverage government resources to maintain and expand our trails. Economic sectors associated with outdoor recreation are growing faster than the national economy as a whole, particularly in regions where employment and economic opportunities in other sectors have declined. In 2018, outdoor recreation accounted for nearly $800 billion in economic activity, including $124 billion in tax revenues at the federal, state, and local levels. These benefits are often received by small and rural communities. Trails are core infrastructure on which America's large and growing outdoor recreation sector of the economy is based, accounting for more than half of outdoor recreation-based economic activity and creating nearly 3.5 million jobs. They are the gateway and connections to nearly every facet of outdoor recreation, including fishing, hunting, wildlife viewing, camping, and more. Trails provide safe access to the outdoors for hiking, biking, birding, horseback riding, trail running, off-highway vehicle use, and other forms of motorized and non-motorized recreation.
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