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Putting people to work on the trails: youth corps, service and conservation corps, AmeriCorps, and other programs for young Americans. Volunteer programs include maintenance, trailbuilding, and monitoring. Training, promoting, and developing volunteerism. Learn how youth and conservation corps can work with you in "America’s youth, America’s trails..."

 

• America's Youth, America's Trails: service and conservation corps are a great resource
• Conservation Corps and Transportation: Making the Connection includes a funding guide and case studies
• American YouthWorks puts young people to work on "Trails Across Texas"
• Shovels in the ground for recoveyr: ARRA funding for youth and conservation corps
• Partner with a Corps in five steps, from The Corps Network
• Maine Conservation Corps is a partner for all seasons
• Interior Dept. proposes 21st Century Youth Conservation Corps initiative
• Trails Forever mobilizes volunteers and resources for Golden Gate parks
• REI funds volunteer trail programs for East Bay Regional Park District
  

• Volunteering as a Gateway to Physical Activity, from American Journal of Health Education, Jan/Feb 2005
• The Proper Care and Feeding of Club Volunteers, by Dan Stra and Del Albright
• Steady increase in the hourly value of volunteer time
• Building the community into the trail: volunteer development on the Baltimore and Annapolis Trail
• Outdoor Recreation as a Motivational Tool for Youth
• Invisible Volunteers: Behind the Scene
• Two articles on trail rangers and mountain bike patrols in Colorado

• Delaware Trail Spinners donate time and money to trail improvements
• Friends of Oscar Scherer Park care for Florida trail system
• Working together works: Equestrians and motorcyclists join forces as trail volunteers
• Managing volunteers: developing and implementing an effective program
• Enlisting youth for public lands projects from Toolbox for the Great Outdoors
• RTCA Community Toolbox – Working with Volunteers
• Sample Waiver of liability forms from the State of Oregon and from The Colorado Trail Foundation

• Backcountry Horsemen of California: making trail partnerships work
• TRACKS works for better trail systems in Arizona
• Mid-South Trails Association promotes volunteerism
• Red River Gorge volunteers provide skilled work for trail projects
• Lake Ouachita partnership counts on volunteers and cooperation on funding
• Sending out the troops: Ozark Trail volunteers
• Boulder, Colorado, program connects trails and the arts; by Susan Pence
• B.R.I.D.G.E. Alternative High School students build Hancock trail
• Jim Meyer of Trails4All mobilizes volunteers from all user groups for clean up days

 

 

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• Training partnership leverages Department of Labor funding, by Kim Frederick
• Conservation Corps provide trail training opportunities
• Volunteer Stewardship Planning from Outdoor Stewardship Institute
• OSI Volunteer Stewardship Planning in Colorado (pdf of PowerPoint 792 kb)
• Building Successful Interagency Wilderness Citizen Stewardship Programs
• Hybrid Contracting: Extending resources with trail contractors
• Mobile Skills Crew supports Ice Age Trail volunteers
• AMC Guide to Outdoor Leadership (book) available from Appalachian Mountain Club
• Draft Crew Leader Manual by Volunteers for Outdoor Arizona

• Touching Lives: our job as trails advocates by Pam Gluck, Executive Director, American Trails
• Dale Lloyd, advocate for trails and snowmobilers
• George and Vie Obern honored for life-long advocacy
• Hulet Hornbeck Trail honors longtime advocate and American Trails Board member
• Bicycle activist Bill Bliss rides into the sunset
• Remembering Kathy Jenkins, former member of American Trails staff
• National Trails Awards recognize advocates who have made a difference for trails

• Trail Adopters Handbook, from Appalachian Trail Conservancy (pdf kb)
• Missouri Department of Conservation Adopt-A-Trail Program, with forms for Volunteer Agreement, Volunteer Reports, and Tool Loan
• Canalway Trail Adopt-a-Trail Agreement, New York State Canal Corporation (PDF 23 KB)
• San Jose (CA) Adopt-A-Trail Training Handbook
• Colorado Trail Foundation Adopt-A-Trail Program
• Wisconsin Adopt-A-Trail Program invites volunteers

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