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• Acquisition & land preservation
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• Utility & transportation corridors
• Federal land and policies

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:

 

• Partnership enables Tahoe-Pyramid Bikeway to cross Pyramid Indian Reservation land
• Cedar Rapids plans to buy out floodplain owners next to Cedar River for 220-acre greenway
• 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 irrigation trail
• Irrigation Canals for Recreational Trail Use: An Evaluation of Issues and Concerns
• See more Water Trail Resources and projects

 

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• Power line trails: safe management and development
• Power line corridor trail: Lower Silver Creek Trail in San Jose
• Electrophobia: Overcoming fears of EMFs

 

• Transportation and utility corridors for trails
• Trails in controlled access hwy rights-of-way
• Rails with trails: case studies from across America
• MetroLink light rail corridor in Illinois would include trail
• See more on trails in abandoned railroad corridors

 

 

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