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. […]

By Bruce Matthews Wednesday morning we were invited to a meeting with National Park Service Director Jon Jarvis. This is the first time during any Trails Advocacy Week that Director Jarvis has agreed to meet with our National Trails community.  Director Jarvis indicated he intended to stay as Director throughout Obama’s second term, and outline […]