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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.

• Dirty kids are the best kind of kids; By Fredric Rice
• A New President! Now What? Recreationists Must Unite and Mobilize!
• Wilderness legislation: considering other options for preserving wildlife and recreation
• The Conservation Triangle: Extraction, Preservation and Recreation
• Trail horse users: a perspective on progress
• Are proposed ADA trail rules a nightmare or just misunderstood?

• Sustainable trails: more than maintenance, by Karen Unphress
• Custos Naturae: More Than Just Trails, by Robert Searns
• President's message on "America's Great Outdoors" inspires trail supporters, by Robert Searns
• Sharing our love of dirt: trail building in the Philippines, by Tony Boone
• Creating four careers from a life in the world of rail trails, by Craig Della Penna
• Safe trails: reaching across the generations, by Charles G. Oakes, PhD
• Good news and exciting times! An economic stimulus— and a challenge for trails
• Will your state's trails program survive? Concerns about the future of the Recreational Trails Program
• 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

• The state of environmental education and implications for America’s trails by Jennifer Rigby
• 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

• Twenty life lessons of the trail by Ronald Bearwald
• 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

• Our mission: creating a great future, by Robert Searns
• Connecting the Dots: Trails– the Green Way for America, by Roger Bell
• Futurist Ken Harris sees challenges for trails ahead
• Changing demographics and reaching new visitors to National Forests in California
• 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
• Science, Research, and Trails: Ideas from the 19th National Trails Symposium
• 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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