National Trails
Awards Nominations Deadline Approaches in May
Let's get some of our OHV
trail leaders up on the award podium!
Washington, D.C. (4/24/2008) -
Every two years American Trails presents the National
Trails Awards to recognize the tremendous contributions
of volunteers, professionals, businesses, and other
leaders who are working to create a national system
of trails for all Americans. Nominations should
cover accomplishments during the period of June
1, 2006 - May 31, 2008. The awards will be presented
at the 19th National Trails Symposium this November.
The deadline for nominations is May 31, 2008.
Award categories & criteria
Trail Advocacy Award: (1 award
per State, the District of Columbia, and Puerto
Rico) - Nominee(s) must have demonstrated successful
efforts to influence public policy relating to
trail planning, trail protection, trail development,
or maintenance.
Trail Worker Award: (1 award
per State, the District of Columbia, and Puerto
Rico): Nominee must have made outstanding contributions
and provided consistent support for trail planning,
development, or maintenance. This award is intended
to recognize the commitment and efforts of a private
or public sector individual in working for enhanced
trail recreation in their local area or state.
Best Trails State Award: This
award recognizes a state which is facilitating
an outstanding statewide system of trails. The
nomination should address any aspects that have
led to the establishment of the statewide trails
network including master planning, legislation,
funding, and program implementation. The nomination
should also include specific projects, plans,
policies and/or initiatives that have furthered
establishment and expansion of the trails network
during the past two years. (Once a state wins,
it will not be eligible for nomination again until
after two successive awards cycles or a minimum
of four years have passed.)
Trails for Health Award: New this year:
The award recognizes a community's commitment
to improving access to trails and promoting their
use and importance for increasing physical activity.
The award is for commitment to long term change
through community design, trail planning, heightened
awareness of active community environments, physical
activity promotion, and increased trail use.
Lifetime Service Award: For
an individual demonstrating longstanding, significant,
and exemplary service to trails planning, implementation,
and recreation.
Partnership Award: The partnership
must have benefited agencies or services within
the field of trail planning, design, or implementation.
The partnership can be between private organizations,
public agencies, or public and private interests.
The partnership must have contributed toward positive
public exposure for the field of trail planning,
design, or implementation.
Trails Public Service Award:
The nominee must work for an agency and may hold
an elected or appointed office at the federal,
state, or local level and must have demonstrated
significant and consistent support of trail planning,
design, or implementation through strong leadership
and/or legislative efforts. The nominee may be
a paid employee or a volunteer.
Community Service Award: This
honors a trail organization that performs exceptional
community service relating to but beyond trail
work per se. This service could include actions
or projects that contribute to making their communities
better places to live, improve the natural environment,
support worthy causes, and/or demonstrate in other
ways preeminent volunteerism.
Outstanding Media Award: Nominee(s)
must have demonstrated significant and sustained
efforts to provide positive public exposure and
education in the field of trail use, planning,
design, or implementation. The nominee must have
demonstrated a willingness and receptiveness to
provide free public service exposure about trails.
Trails and the Arts Award: The
award recognizes outstanding public art projects,
interpretive signs, or other creative structures
associated with trail related improvements.
Planning/Design Award: Nominee(s)
must have demonstrated problem solving through
innovative methods on a trail project. The project
must have included successful aspects of public
participation and/or public agency involvement
and have been planned to enhance the recreational
trails opportunities within the project area.
Corporate Award: A business
or corporation must have demonstrated significant,
sustained, and exemplary service to trails planning,
implementation, and/or recreation.
State-of-the-Art Technology Award:
The award recognizes a trails-related product,
process, or service that has significantly met
a need, addressed an issue, or increased efficiency
in trail design, development, or maintenance.
Outstanding Trail Sharing Award: The
award recognizes innovative and successful trail
sharing efforts, programs, and systems.
The deadline for nominations is May 31, 2008
About American Trails:
American Trails is the only national, nonprofit
organization working on behalf of all trail interests,
including hiking, bicycling, mountain biking,
horseback riding, water trails, snowshoeing, cross-country
skiing, trail motorcycling, ATVs, snowmobiling
and four-wheeling. American Trails members want
to create and protect America's network of interconnected
trails. We support local, regional, and long-distance
trails and greenways, whether they be in backcountry,
rural or urban areas. Our goal is to support America's
trails by finding common ground and promoting
cooperation among all trail interests. We're involved
in everything from training trails advocates to
increasing accessible trail opportunities for
persons with disabilities.
www.nohvcc.org
Great Falls, MT 59404
800-348-6487
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