MTGA Trails Toolkit

Attached is the River Voices newsletter, volume 16, Number 2 from 2006. Published by the River Network, this particular newsletter contains many valuable articles on water trails.

Leave No Trace is a nationwide (and international) program designed to assist visitors with their decisions when they travel and camp on America’s public lands. The program strives to educate visitors about the nature of their recreational impacts as well as techniques to prevent and minimize such impacts. Leave No Trace is best understood as an educational and ethical program, not as a set of rules and regulations.

Trail design and management guidance for crossing streams from National Park Service.

This report provides 12 principles for minimizing conflicts on multiple-use trails. Although this report is about conflicts on trails, it is intended to promote cooperation and understanding among trail users and to inspire ideas that will help reduce trail conflict. It is intended to be used by trail managers, State and local trail coordinators, researchers, and trail-user volunteer organizations.