A State Line, Railroads, Red Clay, Pipelines, and New Partnerships by Matthew Davis, NCTA Regional Trail Coordinator for North Dakota, Minnesota, and Wisconsin (Originally published in the Fall 2020 issue, 39.4, of the North Star magazine.) Patching together landowner permissions for the NCT is sometimes like putting together a very complicated puzzle with […]
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NCTA Joins Michigan DNR’s Forest Management Advisory Committee
For quite some time, the Michigan Department of Natural Resources has been wanting a “trails” voice on their Forest Management Advisory Committee (FMAC). Now, NCTA Regional Trail Coordinator for Michigan, Kenny Wawsczyk, is one of those voices. The FMAC helps the DNR “balance environmental, social and economic issues in managing Michigan’s forest resources.” The […]
PA State Game Lands 95: Trail Project Highlight
The NCTA Butler County Chapter in Pennsylvania was awarded a grant to rehabilitate and rebuild bridges and boardwalks, and to armor the North Country Trail through State Game Lands 95. Part of the Trail runs through eastern Massasauga rattlesnake habitat, a snake that is classified as endangered. As a result, trail work in this […]