By Bruce Matthews Your DC NCTA Advocacy Team spent last week in Washington carrying out our agenda on behalf of the North Country Trail. Myself, Andrea Ketchmark (Director of Trail Development) and Minnesota volunteer John Leinen (who also serves as the Partnership for the National Trails System treasurer) met with 40 different offices of Members […]

By Andrea Ketchmark, NCTA’s Director of Trail Development We speak often of the 2,000 miles yet to be built of the North Country Trail across private land. Combine that with the needs of the other 29 National Scenic and Historic Trails and the number of miles and acres needed to fulfill the vision set by […]

Having completed a week’s worth of meetings with members of Congress here is the status of our Minnesota Arrowhead Re-Route effort. We have a commitment from both Senator Klobuchar (MN) and Representative Nolan (MN-08) to introduce the re-route bill in this Congress. We have commitments from at least another 11 Members to co-sponsor the bill. […]