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What's your opinion? We welcome your ideas, editorials, and your vision of the future of trails and greenways. Look for a variety of viewpoints in the "Trail Tracks" forum, and submit your opinion for possible use on the website or publication in the American Trails Magazine.

Take a reporter riding today: Wild ride results in new attitude about dirt bikers
The mythical off-highway vehicle user, by Karen Umphress
A Vision for Future Equestrian Trails Conferencing
Mountain bikers: Environmentally aware, socially responsible, individually proactive
Land preservation: the new mission for trail advocates
Trails and the American Spirit: Finding common ground
Inspiring action: thoughts on the dedication of the Sundial Trail Bridge

Kids and Trails: Antidote for "Nature Deficit Disorder"
Summer reading that could save your life; by Pam Gluck
We invite you to submit your ideas, opinions, and experiences on any aspect of trail-related activities

Trails, Bike Paths and Sidewalks are Transportation Infrastructure Too
Trails across time... Trails across adversity: Re-Thinking the Benefits of Trails and Greenways
How will new technology affect trail experiences? opinion by Robert Searns
Why water trails are better than land trails by Mike Passo
Healthy Challenges: America's health and fitness crisis creates an opportunity to promote trails and greenways

Trails, rivers, and global warming, by Roger Bell
The Future of Trails and Greenways in America: Ten points to create a legacy of open space and recreation opportunities for all Americans
Kids need trails, and trails need kids, by Dennis Madsen, President and CEO of REI
Creating a vision for trails for the 21st Century
A wave of opportunity that trail supporters must ride
Unplugged and reconnecting: working toward a new mentality for trails: opinion by Robert Searns
Gray City, Green City; Gray Planet, Green Planet: opinion by Robert Searns
The (almost) perfect trails community
Trails and freedom: will terrorism affect our trails? by Stuart Macdonald

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