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• The Power of Partnerships: Two Arkansas Success Stories (pdf of PowerPoint 1.9 mb)
• Partnership improves trails and habitat along Salinas River
• IMBA partnerships improve trails on Army Corps land
• IMBA Signs Breakthrough Agreement with National Park Service
• Gardner Junction Park partnership celebrates historic trail sites
• Bringing together a coalition of partners to develop your water trail (pdf of PowerPoint 1.2 mb)
• Partnering to Manage Roads and Trails in the Chippewa Area (pdf of PowerPoint 9.3 mb)
• Sample agreement among land manager, landowner, and trail organization (Austin, TX area)
• SEAtrails: a regional effort to plan, promote, and build a trail system in southeast Alaska
• The "Collaborative Process" for recreation access issues
• Arizona Trail Association wins Trails for Tomorrow Award
• Trails Action Guide, by the North Carolina Horse Council
• Arkansas faces a trails funding crisis: the benefits of working collaboratively

• Why Host the National Trails Symposium?
• June is Great Outdoors Month: promoting trails in Washington, DC
• Conferences promote equestrian Issues
• A Vision for Future Equestrian Trails Conferencing
• New map puts BATCO "on the map:" a tale of perseverance and reward
• Close the Gaps ride promotes completion of East Coast Greenway
• Trails of Lights: Events in Texas and Missouri
• Tips on improving your trails website, by Christopher Douwes
• Hit the Web: promoting your trail in cyberspace
• Events on the trails promote NRT designation
• Congress Gets Behind IMBA's Take a Kid Mountain Biking Effort
• Utah Trails Promotion: Planning your event (pdf 188 kb)
• Planning events to showcase trails
• Cedar Falls, Iowa, Trails Festival highlights trail system
• National Trails Day Event Organizers Manual from American Hiking Society (pdf 733 kB)
• Event Organizers Manual International Trails Day: First Saturday in June (pdf 138 kb)
• Ideas for statewide trails events for National Trails Day
• Write more effective letters to elected officials and politicians
• Writing the persuasive letter to the editor
• Giving the knock-out media interview

• Ten Steps for the future of trails, greenways, and open space in America
• Half-baked trails? The Case For Trails: Well Done, Medium Rare, and Works in Progress, by Bob Searns
• Touching Lives: our job as trails advocates by Pam Gluck, Executive Director, American Trails
• Champions fight the good fight in quest for trails; by Robert Searns
• How to be a Better Trail Advocate, NYC Greenways System (pdf 4.2 mb)
• A Facilitator's Guide for AmeriCorps members (pdf 765kb)
• Tips on Meeting with Congressional Offices
• The 10 Habits of Highly Successful Advocates
• Finding More Advocates
• Building Mountain Bike Mecca: IMBA's New Ride Center Initiative
• Teton Valley grows a trail system
• O. L. "Leff" Moore and the development of the innovative Hatfield-McCoy Recreation Area
• Equestrian Land Protection Guide is now available from Equestrian Land Conservation Resource
• Trails 101: A primer on trail building
• The History of Horse Trails: equestrians join the fight for trails and access, by Denise Maxwell
• Mountain Bikers: How to Preserve Your Access to Public Trails
• Mountain bikers: environmentally aware, socially responsible, individually proactive
• Ski resorts can advance mountain bicycling opportunities
• Top 10 Ways (Plus 1) to Work with a Developer
• CDTA Rounds Up Congress for Trail Funding
• Northern New Mexico throws up political roadblock to the Continental Divide Trail
• Contact your Members of Congress

• Creating and Managing Greenway and Trail Organizations from Virginia Greenways and Trails Toolbox (pdf 176 kb)
• Closing Gaps in the East Coast Greenway
• The Multi-Objective Values of Trails, By Steve Elkinton, National Park Service
• Developing the Equestrian Land Conservation Resource
• Trail horse users: a perspective on progress
• Saving Trails is What They Do – Back Country Horsemen of America ~ EquestrianMag.com
• Broadening Trails Constituencies
• Partners and Cooperation
• Partnership brings success to Nebraska trails
• The Pikes Peak Model
• Forging alliances: the role of state trail organizations
• How to build an advocacy organization
• Of Boards and Bureaucracies, and Why So Many Friends Type Groups Are Cropping Up
• Resolving Problems in Recreational Clubs By Del Albright

• Remembering Jessica Terrell, trails activist and state program manager
• John Roth, founder of The Ozark Trail, passes on
• Tammy Jamieson, Silverthorne, CO advocate for parks, trails, and open space
• Brian O'Neill, longtime superintendent of Golden Gate National Recreation Area
• George's Send Off: remembering George Cardinet
• Remembering Bill Spitzer, Park Service mentor
• George and Vie Obern honored for life-long advocacy
• Bicycle activist Bill Bliss rides into the sunset
• We've come a long way... Activism at American Trails
• National Trails Awards recognize advocates who have made a difference for trails

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