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We offer special recognition to Hugh Morris, Betsy Goodrich, Kate Bickert, Karen Stewart, Barbara Richey, Jeff Ciabotti, and Nancy Krupiarz for their contributions to the manuscript on behalf of Rails-to-Trails Conservancy. Thanks to those dedicated individuals whose expertise provided insight into the design and management of trails: Ursula Lemanski, Chris Abbett, and Bryan Bowden, RTCA; Bill ONeill, East Coast Greenways; Jennifer Barefoot, Rails-to-Trails of Central Pennsylvania; Michael Kelley, International Mountain Biking Association; Ed McBrayer, PATH Foundation; John Dugger, Coalition for the Capital Crescent Trail; Renee Graham, Columbia Missouri Convention and Visitors Bureau; and Jim Schmid, South Carolina Department of Parks, Recreation and Tourism. A special recognition goes to Balmori Associates, Inc., whose artwork and graphics grace the pages of this publication.
CHARLES A. CHUCK FLINK is founder and president of Greenways Incorporated, an environmental planning and landscape architecture company based in Durham, North Carolina, established in 1986. He is the coauthor of Greenways: A Guide to Planning, Design and Development (Island Press, 1993). Flink is a graduate of North Carolina State Universitys School of Design and served as an Adjunct Professor of Landscape Architecture from 1994 to 1998. He served three consecutive terms as chairman of the board for American Trails, Washington, D.C. (19891992) and served as a member of the North Carolina Greenways Advisory Panel.
KRISTINE OLKA is a former project planner for Greenways Incorporated. Before working as a project planner, she was a special projects assistant at the Rails-to-Trails Conservancy. She is currently an editor and publications manager at IBM and continues to be active in the greenways movement through her work as a member of the Triangle Greenways Council Board of Directors.
ROBERT M. SEARNS is the founding owner of Urban Edges, Inc., a planning and development firm based in Denver, Colorado, that specializes in greenways, trails, and outdoor resource conservation. He was project director of Denvers Platte River Greenway, one of the nations benchmark urban trail projects. He produced 10,000 Trees, an 8-mile-long river-corridor revegetation and wetland-restoration project involving 3,000 volunteers along the Mary Carter Greenway in Littleton, Colorado, and authored a greenways and trails plan for the 43-square-mile gateway into metropolitan Denver from Denver International Airport. In addition to his work in Colorado, he has helped master plan trail and greenway projects in the Chicago, Dallas, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, and Portland metro areas. He partnered with Chuck Flink in assisting Grand Canyon National Park in pursuing a precedent-setting 72-mile system of multi-use trails that provide nonmotorized access to Canyon rim. He has been an instructor and advisor for the National Park Service, the National Recreation and Park Association and the National Rails-to-Trails Conservancy. He has written articles and editorials for Landscape Architecture Magazine and other publications and has conducted workshops in the United States, Canada, and Europe. He co-authored with Chuck Flink Greenways: A Guide to Planning, Design and Development (Island Press, 1993) and was a contributing author to Greenways, The Beginning of an International Movement (Elsevier Press, 1996).
This annotated resource directory will guide you to additional information on trail planning, design, and management. Although few resources relating specifically to multi-use trail development exist, there are numerous works relating to various aspects of trail development. The following reference sources are divided into general interest categories, and into separate sections that correspond with the chapters of this book. Many of these resources are available from the Trails and Greenways Clearinghouse at www.trailsandgreenways.org .
American Trails. Trails for All Americans: Report of the National Trails Agenda Project. Washington, DC: National Park Service, Summer 1990. 21 pp.
Offers an exciting and comprehensive vision for a nationwide system of trails within fifteen minutes of every front door in the country. Discusses the wide-ranging benefits of multi-use trails, including health, economics, conservation, transportation, and recreation. Examines the role of local, state, and federal governments in providing trail infrastructure. Discussion of existing policy and programs, and recommendations for change are particularly helpful in charting the future of an American trail system.
Association of State Wetland Managers, Association of State Floodplain Managers, and National Park Service. A Casebook in Managing Rivers for Multiple Uses. Philadelphia, PA: National Park Service, Mid-Atlantic Regional Office, 1991. 79 pp. Maps, photos.
Contains eight case studies, several of which include multi-use trail development as a component of river management and preservation. Identifies the objectives, participants, innovative aspects, and accomplishments of each project and discusses their planning processes. Provides contacts within management agencies and bibliographic references.
Flink, Charles A., Robert M. Searns, and Loring Schwarz, eds. Greenways: A Guide to Planning, Design, and Development. Washington, DC: Island Press and The Conservation Fund, 1993. Illustrations.
A how-to guide for planning and designing greenway projects. The guide takes a step-by-step approach to greenway development and addresses many issues that face greenway planners and designers.
Grove, Noel. Greenways: Paths for the Future. National Geographic (June 1990): 7798.
Provides a well-written introduction to the greenway movement in the United States; cites examples from many greenway projects across the country.
Little, Charles E. Greenways for America. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1990. 237 pp. Color photos.
Traces the history of the greenway movement and its efforts to preserve and restore linear open space. Describes many benefits of greenways, particularly those used as bicycle and pedestrian trails, and includes a valuable bibliography of published and unpublished sources.
Macdonald, Stuart H. Greenways: Preserving Our Urban Environment. Trilogy (NovemberDecember 1991): 9596.
A persuasive piece that makes a case for urban trails and greenways and urges the urban dweller to initiate and guide trail development through citizen activism.
National Park Service and National Parks and Conservation Association. Toward a Regionwide Network of Trails for the Mid-Atlantic States. Washington, DC: National Park Service and National Parks and Conservation Association, 1992. 25 pp. Appendices, map.
Reports on 147 potential trail and greenway corridors and provides a 27-point action agenda identified by trail interests in the Mid-Atlantic states: Delaware, Maryland, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and West Virginia.
National Park Service and the National Recreation and Park Association. TrendsRecreational Trails and Greenways. Vol. 28. Washington, DC: National Park Service and the National Recreation and Park Association, 1991. 48 pp.
Contains eleven essays on the growth and development of multi-use trails and greenways. Topics include greenways as transportation, corporate involvement in trail development, the role of government, and prospects for a nationwide trail system.
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