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:

• 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
• Alaska Heritage Trails Program easements and corridor protection
• Protecting Landscapes: land for recreation and land for re-creation, By Will Rogers, President, Trust for Public Land
• Alberta Recreation Corridor issues (pdf 383kb)

• Chesapeake & Delaware Canal Recreation Study from US Army Corps of Engineers
• Mississippi River levees proposed for trail corridor
• Pros and cons of trails along irrrigation trail
• Irrigation Canals for Recreational Trail Use: An Evaluation of Issues and Concerns
• See more Water Trail Resources and projects