USFS Standard Trail Plans and Specifications
The Standard Trail Plans and Specifications reflect current Forest Service trail management efforts and the agency’s Trails Data Dictionary for constructed features and tasks.
Accurately interpret specifications, construction process notes, and construction documents to develop an implementation plan based on available labor and funding.
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The Standard Trail Plans and Specifications reflect current Forest Service trail management efforts and the agency’s Trails Data Dictionary for constructed features and tasks.
This 300-page spiral-bound publication, several years in the making, provides a first-ever comprehensive "how-to" guidebook for developing all types of recreational trails.
This guidebook provides practical guidelines for developing recreation environments that are sensitive to the needs of riders and their stock.
Trail Skills Training Library
This webinar will break down how successful agencies manage parking, discuss common strategies and solutions to consider, and how to successfully deploy them.
This webinar will feature three members of the original design team who will take attendees through the vision, design, and development process to develop the Grand Canyon Greenway.
his webinar covers the latest issues and policies in planning and designing urban mobility networks, and how to integrate transportation with greenways and trails to create seamless metro-wide systems.
This webinar will review several common approaches and technologies for trail planning and design projects and provide attendees with real world examples.
This webinar will provide some basic information on trails in federally-designated Wilderness, examples of practical experiences, and resources to learn more. Presented by: Pete Irvine, retired, USDA Forest Service Dan Abbe, Wilderness Specialist,…
Learn how to use a variety of mobile and desktop based technologies to assess, plan, and design trails across the country. Presented by: Jon Altschuld, Founder and Principal, Chinook Landscape Architecture, LLC Tony Boone, COO, Timberline TrailCraft
Training Calendar
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Morgantown, WV
I lead WVU's Sustainable Trails Curriculum, am a licensed landscape architect and Associate…
Brunswick, ME
Jed Talbot is the owner of OBP Trailworks, LLC, a Maine based company that designs, builds, and…
Golden, CO
Thirty-eight years of experience in the US Forest Service in landscape architecture, recreation…
Mccall, ID
I am an early-career trails professional with the Forest Service. I have seven Agency field seasons…
Granby
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Bedford, NH
I serve as the liaison to the Bedford Conservation Commission, who own numerous properties with…
Golden, CO
Thirty-eight years of experience in the US Forest Service in landscape architecture, recreation…
Fort Worth, TX
Flagstaff, AZ
For over 10 years, I have been designing and leading field-based trail trainings for land agencies,…
Sturgis, SD
For over three decades Kevin has planned, built, maintained, and mostly certainly used trails. The…
Santa Cruz, CA
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