2021 Friend of the Trail Award Kathy Baer and Todd Frerichs, Audubon National Wildlife Refuge. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) staff at the Audubon National Wildlife Refuge in North Dakota, primarily Kathy Baer and Todd Frerichs, were instrumental in the development of a new 12-mile segment of the NCT within the Refuge between […]
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A State Line, Railroads, Red Clay, Pipelines, and New Partnerships
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 […]
Puzzle Pieces in Wisconsin
“Patching together landowner permissions for the NCT is sometimes like putting together a very complicated puzzle with odd-shaped pieces,” wrote Matthew Davis, NCTA Regional Trail Coordinator for North Dakota, Minnesota and Wisconsin. “Sometimes the piece you need the most is missing.” For the past decade in northern Wisconsin, the Brule-St. Croix Chapter of […]