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Beyond the Banks: Leveraging Levees for Trails, Recreation, and Resilience

Upcoming: February 19, 2026

This webinar explores how levees can serve a dual role as flood protection infrastructure and recreational trails.

IMBA’s Trail Development Process: Building Community-Driven Trails

Upcoming: February 12, 2026

International Mountain Bicycling Association (IMBA) experts will guide you through an overview of the seven critical steps of the Trail Development Process, from initial access and community engagement to long-term stewardship.

A Guide to Adaptive Mountain Bike Trailbuilding

October 30, 2025

This webinar will walk through the latest guidance for planning, designing, building, and retrofitting adaptive mountain bike trails, with a specific focus on nonmotorized, natural-surface trails. The speakers represent the critical stakeholders that should be involved in any aMTB trail project— trail manager, aMTB users, aMTB programs, and trail builder.

Trail Design in an Animate World

October 16, 2025

This webinar invites trail designers, planners, and stewards into a radical reimagining of their role—not as prescribers of sustainability, but as participants in a living, animate world. Drawing inspiration from deep ecological traditions, Indigenous teachings, and the spiritual dimensions of place-based work, it offers a reframing of trail design as a reciprocal act rooted in humility, listening, and respect.

Community Crafted, Eco-Engineered Trail System: India’s First Women-Led Trail System

October 02, 2025

This presentation chronicles the pioneering ecological restoration of Taloja Hill through the creation of India’s first community-crafted, eco-engineered trail system led entirely by women.

Natural Surface Trails as Transportation

September 25, 2025

This webinar outlines the benefits, planning considerations, and implementation strategies for incorporating natural surface trails into greenways and public trail systems.

Plan Trails to Minimize Wildlife Disturbance

May 22, 2025

A summary of best practices for trail groups who plan, design, and manage nonmotorized trails to minimize disturbance of or conflict with wildlife, specifically large carnivores.

OPDMD or Wheelchair: Where Can They Go?

May 01, 2025

The webinar will address the difference between Wheelchair and OPDMD (Other Power Drive Mobility Devices), explain the ADAs Assessment Factors, clarify Legitimate Safety Requirements, how to develop Policy and the importance of Training.

Vegetation Design for Trailbuilders

March 27, 2025

With the increasing public demand for native plants and a push to find alternatives, learn from one landscape architect’s experience developing prairies in a variety of environments.

Connecting Recreational Benefits with Transmission Corridors

March 20, 2025

Researchers will share their findings, including case studies and best practices, and discuss how co-locating recreational amenities alongside transmission infrastructure can enhance community well-being, generate sustainable economic growth, and improve local wildlife habitat and ecosystems.

Navigating NEPA in Trail Development

March 06, 2025

This webinar is a deeper dive into the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) as an extension of a past webinar: Approvals, Permitting and Compliance (2023). This webinar will help answer key questions related to NEPA and trail development.

Innovative Development of a Year-Round, Destination Trail System in a Rural Area

December 12, 2024

Learn about one organization’s innovative approach to building and maintaining a trail system that serves as a model for communities around the country.

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