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Connecticut walk book : the complete guide to Connecticut's blue-blazed hiking trails
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ISBN: 0819578223 9780819578228 0819577146 9780819577146 Year: 2017 Publisher: Middletown, Connecticut : Wesleyan University Press,

Trails for the twenty-first century: planning, design, and management manual for multi-use trails
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ISBN: 159726346X 9781597263467 1559638184 9781559638180 1559638192 9781559638197 Year: 2001 Publisher: Island Press

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Communities across the country are working to convert unused railway and canal corridors into trails for pedestrians, cyclists, horseback riders, and others, serving the needs of both recreationists and commuters alike. These multi-use trails can play a key role in improving livability, as they offer an innovative means of addressing sprawl, revitalizing urban areas, and reusing degraded lands. Trails for the Twenty-First Century is a step-by-step guide to all aspects of the planning, design, and management of multi-use trails. Originally published in 1993, this completely revised and updated edition offers a wealth of new information including. discussions of recent regulations and federal programs, including ADA and TEA-21 recently revised design standards from AASHTO current research on topics ranging from trail surfacing to conflict resolution information about designing and building trails in brownfields and other environmentally troubled landscapes Also included is a new introduction that describes the importance of rail-trails to the sustainable communities movement, and an expanded discussion of maintenance costs. Enhanced with a wealth of illustrations, Trails for the Twenty-First Century provides detailed guidance on topics such as: taking a physical inventory and assessment of a site; involving the public and meeting the needs of adjacent landowners; understanding and complying with existing legislation; designing, managing, and promoting a trail; and where to go for more information. It is the only comprehensive guidebook available for planners, landscape architects, local officials, and community activists interested in creating a multi-use trail.
50 classic hikes in Nevada
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ISBN: 0874176670 9780874176674 0874176298 9780874176292 Year: 2006 Publisher: Reno University of Nevada Press


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Vorwärts rückwärts
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ISBN: 9783869457031 3869457031 9783869457031 3869457031 Year: 2014 Publisher: Nordhausen Traugott Bautz

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1962 war das Fahrrad am Ende. Der Künstler Christo packte es ein und montierte es auf den Dachträger eines Autos. Damit war das Fahrrad als Transportmittel erledigt. Benedikt Meyer beleuchtet die Ursprünge des Fahrradfahrens, seine Blütezeit zur Jahrhundertwende, seine Alltäglichkeit in der Zwischenkriegszeit, sein Verschwinden im Rahmen der Motorisierung und seine unerwartete Renaissance seit 1970. Ein Buch, das eine Forschungslücke schliesst: die Geschichte des Fahrradfahrens in der Schweiz.Dr. phil. Benedikt Meyer (*1982) hat an den Unis Basel, Bern und Bordeaux Geschichte, Sozialpsychologi


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Pathways : Exploring the Routes of a Movement Heritage.
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ISBN: 1912186551 1912186608 Year: 2022 Publisher: Winwick, Cambridgeshire : The White Horse Press,

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This anthology explores possibilities to acknowledge human motion, and traces thereof, as heritage. Today, with the increasing interest in local and sustainable connections, and in bodily and spiritual enhancement, we see a growing use of walking tracks both in landscapes within reach from urban centres and in more remotely located or 'wild' areas. The corona pandemic has further propelled these trends. Of course, landscapes that are commonly understood as wilderness or 'nature' are in most cases clearly influenced by human actions and movements. While walking trails tend to be regarded as pathways to experience nature and as tools to promote public health, they could also be seen and used as routes to culture and history, indeed as pathways to the past. Based on a Swedish research project with the aim to explore the multiple dimensions of walking, paths and movement, this volume engages and discusses the potential effects of such an expansion of the heritage register.

The overland journey from Utah to California
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ISBN: 087417645X 9780874176452 0874175011 9780874175011 9780874177527 Year: 2004 Publisher: Reno University of Nevada Press

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"The wagon trail between Salt Lake City and Los Angeles is one of the most important and least-known elements of nineteenth-century Western migration. Known as the Southern Route, it included the western half of the Old Spanish Trail and was favored because it could be used for travel and freighting year-round. It was, however, arguably the most difficult route that pioneers traveled with any consistency in the entire history of the country. Following not rivers but leading from one - sometimes dubious - desert watering place to the next and offering few havens for the sick, weary, or unfortunate." "Historian Edward Leo Lyman has provided the first history of the complete Southern Route, and of the people who developed and used it. Based on extensive research in primary sources - including many early travelers accounts - and on Lyman's own investigation of the route and its branches, the book discusses the exploration and development of the Old Spanish Trail. Its horse thieves and traders, including Jedediah Smith and Kit Carson, along with government explorer John C. Fremont. Developing the old pack mule trail as a wagon road between Salt Lake City and Los Angeles, miners heading for the California gold fields first used the route extensively. Mormon missionaries and the colonisers of San Bernardino and other communities also traveled that way, as did a wide array of mail carriers, soldiers, and world travelers. Later, a steady stream of Anglo-American emigrants seeking new homes or fortunes in California shared the road with a surprising number of freight-wagon operators. The trail passed through the territories of numerous Native American peoples, and contacts with them - both friendly and hostile - played a significant role in the experiences of travelers and in the fates of Native American cultures in this region. Lyman's discussions of Mormon-Indian relations and of the infamous Mountain Meadows Massacre offer fresh and important analyses of these vital aspects of the westward movement."--Jacket.

Alabama trails
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ISBN: 0585201102 9780585201108 0817306900 Year: 1993 Publisher: Tuscaloosa, Ala. University of Alabama Press

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Walks, tracks & trails of Victoria
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ISBN: 1283155370 9786613155375 0643097910 9780643097919 9780643095878 064309587X 9781283155373 6613155373 9780643100091 0643100091 Year: 2009 Publisher: Collingwood, Vic. : CSIRO Pub.,

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More than 150 of the best walks, tracks and trails in Victoria, covering the best the state has to offer.


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Tangled roots : the Appalachian Trail and American environmental politics
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ISBN: 0295804882 9780295804880 9780295993003 0295993006 Year: 2013 Publisher: Seattle

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"The Appalachian Trail, a thin ribbon of wilderness running through the densely populated eastern United States, offers a refuge from modern society and a place apart from human ideas and institutions. But as environmental historian and thru-hiker Sarah Mittlefehldt argues, the trail is also a conduit for community engagement and a model for public-private cooperation and environmental stewardship.In Tangled Roots, Mittlefehldt tells the story of the trail's creation. The project was one of the first in which the National Park Service attempted to create public wilderness space within heavily populated, privately owned lands. Originally a regional grassroots endeavor, under federal leadership the trail project retained unprecedented levels of community involvement. As citizen volunteers came together and entered into conversation with the National Parks Service, boundaries between "local" and "nonlocal," "public" and "private," "amateur" and "expert" frequently broke down. Today, as Mittlefehldt tells us, the Appalachian Trail remains an unusual hybrid of public and private efforts and an inspiring success story of environmental protection. Sarah Mittlefehldt is assistant professor of environmental studies at Green Mountain College."Tangled Roots makes a contribution to the literature of environmental conservation history that is as unusual as the trail itself. In a gentle, approachable, and engaging style it tells the history of one of the most important and beloved conservation initiatives in American history and at the same time comments on a wide range of subjects in ways that are both insightful and fresh." --James Feldman, author of A Storied Wilderness"Tangled Roots will find readership among environmental and forest historians and will end up on the Christmas lists and in the backpacks of the trail's many fans. It is original and well-researched, ranging the length of the trail and lingering in one or another spot to explore representative or illuminating developments." --Kathryn Newfont, author of Blue Ridge Commons"This superb history of the construction and management of the Appalachian Trail not only narrates the creation of the most famous long-distance hiking trail in modern America; it also offers a cautionary tale about the changing roles of private landowners, volunteer hiking enthusiasts, land managers, and federal agencies in the oversight of that trail. In so doing, Sarah Mittlefehldt beautifully illustrates the changing environmental politics of the twentieth century in a book whose implications extend far beyond the AT." --William Cronon"--


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Miniature forests of Cape Horn
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ISBN: 1283924366 1574414569 9781574414561 9781283924368 9781574414486 1574414488 Year: 2012 Publisher: Denton, Tex. Punta Arenas, Chile University of North Texas Press Universidad de Magallanes

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In the humid forests of Cape Horn, a single tree can host more than 100 species of little epiphyte plants. The floor of the forest and the rocks are also covered by numerous species of liverworts, mosses, and lichens. The decision to stop at a tree or rock and explore these "miniature forests" generates an authentic ecotourism experience. In a small area we can spend several minutes or hours with a magnifying glass or camera discovering the colors, shapes, and textures of the most diverse organisms of Cape Horn. This guidebook enhances exploration by providing information to understand the architecture, life cycles, and identification of taxonomic groups of the organisms that form them. For example, when viewing a yellow orange organism, the full color pictures and text in the guidebook illustrate that what you are viewing on the inter-tidal rocks is a crustose lichen, with a well-defined circular structure belonging to the genus Caloplaca that enjoys a broad distribution in inter-tidal zones of Arctic and Antarctic areas. The authors of this guidebook also provide a novel twist on other, more traditional field guides to bryophytes and lichens by introducing the innovative, sustainable tourism activity of "ecotourism with a hand lens." They present a strong natural history narrative and an ecological and ethical orientation for the appreciation of wonders of the miniature forests of Cape Horn.

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Trails --- Ecotourism --- Biodiversity conservation --- Biosphere reserves --- Botanical gardens --- Lichens --- Bryophytes --- Backcountry routes --- Backcountry tracks --- Bridle paths --- Bush tracks --- Bush walks --- Foot paths --- Foot trails --- Footpaths --- General purpose trails --- Hiking routes --- Hiking trails --- Horse trails --- Multi-use trails --- Multiple-use trails --- Paths (Trails) --- Recreation trails --- Recreational trails --- Routes, Backcountry --- Routes, Hiking --- Tracks (Trails) --- Tramping tracks --- Walking tracks --- Walks (Trails) --- Walkways (Trails) --- Hiking --- Mountaineering --- Roads --- Walking --- Eco-tourism --- Eco-travel --- Ecological tourism --- Ecotravel --- Environmental tourism --- Green tourism --- Nature tourism --- Tourism --- Biodiversity --- Biological diversity conservation --- Conservation of biodiversity --- Diversity conservation, Biological --- Gender mainstreaming in biodiversity conservation --- Maintenance of biological diversity --- Preservation of biological diversity --- Conservation of natural resources --- Ecosystem management --- Natural areas --- Botanic gardens --- Gardens --- Research institutes --- Arboretums --- Macro-lichens --- Macrolichens --- Microlichens --- Cryptogams --- Bryophyta --- Bryophyte flora --- Bryophyte vegetation --- Archegoniatae --- Bryology --- Conservation --- Horn, Cape (Chile) --- Cabo de Hornos (Chile) --- Cape Hoorn (Chile) --- Cape Horn (Chile) --- Hoorn, Cape (Chile) --- Description and travel.

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