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Extend your learning with in-depth workshops
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The Art & Science of Trails — Woody Keen, Trail Dynamics LLC. Sunday-Monday, March 9-10
While good trail design involves a range of sciences to provide for a sustainable route, great trail design involves the art of interpreting the landscape to maximize its exceptional features thereby enhancing the user experience. This comprehensive 2 day (indoor) workshop will cover many aspects of trail development and lay the groundwork needed to improve your skills as a trail manager.
Trailshaping - Generating Solutions - Better, Faster, Smarter & Cheaper (Parts 1 and 2) — Troy Scott Parker, Natureshape LLC. Monday-Tuesday, March 10-11, and Friday, March 14
This two-part workshop introduces the 12 trailshaping factors and gives you outdoor practice in applying them. There’s a lot of information, but trailshaping is designed to be easy to learn. The workshop is based on concepts first published in Natural Surface Trails by Design: Physical and Human Design Essentials of Sustainable, Enjoyable Trails. It goes further, however, including material from an upcoming update as well as future books in the Trailshaping Series.
Universal Trail Assessment Process (UTAP) — Beneficial Designs. Sunday-Monday March 9-10
UTAP is becoming a standard process for objectively recording and conveying accessibility information for any trail. Learn and practice the process in this two-day, indoor/outdoor workshop.
TrailWare Workshop — Beneficial Designs. Tuesday, March 11, 8:00 AM-noon
Optionally used with UTAP, Trailware is software for recording and conveying trail assessment information gathered with UTAP. Half-day classroom workshop.
Cost Estimating for Trail Maintenance Budgeting — Don Beers and Karl Knapp. Monday, March 10
One of the biggest short comings of any trail program is the development of appropriate funding to maintain the existing trail system at a safe and functional level. Participants will learn “process based” trail maintenance budgeting which can be applied to developing accurate time estimates and funding requirements on existing trails. This information will be valuable to the Agency Trail Manager, Trail Consultant and the Trail Crew Supervisor or Forman.
Rigging for Trail Work — Lester Kenway. Friday, March 14
This one-day workshop is divided between classroom presentations and outside demonstrations of equipment and techniques. Safe practices in the use of wire rope and rigging equipment will be presented; a variety of winches and specialty tools will be available to apply in different situations. Applications ranging from simple pulling/dragging situations to overhead skyline systems hundreds of feet long will be described or demonstrated.
Confluence of Conflicts — Dick and Joani Dufourd, RecConnect, LLC. Friday, March 14, 8:00 AM - 4:30 PM
In recent years, the urban growth in the Reno-Sparks area has exploded with subdivisions. In the middle of this and nearly surrounded by it, is a piece of land called Hungry Valley. Managed by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), heavy pressure for public access and public uses has changed this once remote area of 40,000 acres into an area that needs to be managed more as an urban park or open space. In a field trip format, this unique workshop discusses these complex issues and challenges and the solutions that are being implemented here. The session will also focus on how creative partnerships, non-agency funding sources, and non-profits have been utilized to help manage this area.
National Trails Training Partnership (NTTP) — Stuart MacDonald, Pam Gluck and Christopher Douwes. Friday, March 14, 8 AM - 12 noon
Join members of American Trails and the Federal Highway Administration, Recreation Trails Program, for an update on the future of the National Trails Training Partnership program. Open to NTTP members.
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