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Trail EAffect Episode 88 Mitchell Allen Trail Project Manager for the Arkansas Parks and Recreation Foundation
- The Mitchell Allen Back Story
- The relationship between conservation and recreation
- Developing properties in Arkansas that allow for more recreation to help connect people with the land, and help to engage new users onto the properties
- The difficult part of collecting user data on properties
- What the Arkansas Parks and Recreation Foundation is
- Mitchell’s role as Trail Project Manager
- What Monument Trails Are
- Elevation found at State Parks in Arkansas
- Trail Maintenance
- Rock Armoring Trails and Jumps
- Wood Features on Trails
- What inspires Mitchell while traveling to other communities to bring back to Arkansas
- Building really good beginner trails, the importance of beginner Trails, and some of the difficulty that comes with building beginner trails as well.
- A famous failure or learning experience
- Keeping the community needs in mind
- Learning how much Mitchell didn’t know from others
- Thinking about all trail users
- Directional Trails Making more sense to Mitchell
- Value in separating groups and value in keeping groups together and where
- Going deeper on Directional Trails
- The Internet
- Earbuds in the woods
- What Mitchell thinks makes a great trail community
- Closing comments by Mitchell
- Experience all of Arkansas
- Womble Trail
Links discussed in the show:
The Arkansas Parks and Recreation Foundation: https://www.arparksfoundation.org/
The Nature Conservancy in Arkansas: https://www.nature.org/en-us/about-us/where-we-work/united-states/arkansas/contact-us/
Monument Trails: https://www.arkansasstateparks.com/trails/monument-trails
Monument Trails on YouTube: https://youtu.be/8PGh1o9RHRc
This Podcast has been edited and produced by Evolution Trail Services
Trail EAffect Show Links:
Evolution Trail Services: www.evotrails.com
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