Mitchell Allen Trail Project Manager for the Arkansas Parks and Recreation Foundation #88

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

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