The EMS Trail Fund assists volunteer groups by covering out-of-pocket costs for trail construction and maintenance. We regularly work with organizations like the Appalachian Mountain Club, the Appalachian Trail Conference, the Adirondack Mountain Club, the American Mountain Foundation and the Colorado Mountain Club. For information on how your organization can work with EMS to preserve America's trails, write to: Trail Fund Coordinator, Eastern Mountain Sports, One Vose Farm Road., Peterborough, NH 03458.

Trail Building and Maintenance
ISBN 0-910146-30-6, Proudman and Rajala. $12.95
Appalachian Mountain Club 288 pp
(out of print)

Trail maintenance problems and procedures for the Appalachian Trail. Most trail systems follow many of their guidelines with variations for local conditions. Does not cover trails for horse packing.

The Complete Guide to Trail Building and Maintenance
Demrow & Salisbury
Appalachian Mountain Club
ISBN: 1878239546

Lightly on the Land : The Sca Trail-Building and Maintenance Manual
Birkby
ISBN: 0898864917
 

Trails for the Twenty-First Century : Planning, Design, and Management Manual for Multi-Use Trails
Fink, Searns & Olka (eds)
ISBN: 1559638192

Trailwrights (New England region)
http://www.trailwrights.org/

Concord, NH

Trailwrights is a non-profit volunteer organization, the purpose of which is to promote environmentally sound techniques of trail maintenance and safe ethical hiking practices. We will not take over the maintenance tasks, but we will show whatever they need to know to protect pathways and even help design and construct new trails. Each project is conducted as an all day workshop involving its participants in the following: Maintenance Management Planning Consulting Trail Planning, Design Erosion Control Drainage Trail Hardening Rock Step Construction Bridge Building Brush and Blowdown removal Trail Marking - Blazing, Cairns Tool Use and Safety Tool Care and Storage

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USDA, FS.  Technology & Development Program
Fort Missoula, Bldg #1
Missoula, MT 59804
(406)329-3900

Trent University Trail Studies Unit
http://www.trentu.ca/academic/trailstudies/

Peterborough
Ontario K9J 7B8, Canada

The Unit has a resource centre comprising over 2000 references on trails. These include trail plans, design manuals, user studies, impact studies, guidebooks, interpretive brochures, and trail magazines. The catalogue is computerised allowing the selection of references by subject, author and location, and the production of bibliographies. Online access to the catalogue is planned. The centre also includes a slide and video collection relating to trails. The resource centre is expanding constantly, so contributions of trail publications are welcome. The centre is located in Room ES.C201 in the Environmental Sciences Centre, Trent Univeristy. It is staffed and isnormally open for use Tuesday to Thursday from 1:00pm to 4:00pm. Additional resources are available in the libraries of Trent Univeristy and Fleming College, Lindsay.

Trail Planning, Construction and Maintenance:
http://forestry.lib.umn.edu/bib/trls.html

A Bibliography Supplement 1984 - present
Forestry Library, College of Natural Resources, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN

This is a WWW server for a supplement to "Trail Planning, Construction, and Maintenance: A Bibliography," published in 1984 as University of Minnesota Agricultural Experiment Station Miscellaneous Publ. No. 26. This bibliography covers planning, design, construction, and maintence of all types of trails. Trails use studies are included. The purpose of the bibliography is to bring together literature that will enable trail planners, managers, and users to benefit from what others have learned through research and experience.

Loans or photocopies of most publications cited are available, for a fee, from the Forestry Library, University of Minnesota, B-50 NRAB, 2003 Upper Buford Circle, St. Paul, MN 55108. Please e-mail your requests to: ncinfo@ncinfo.email.umn.edu

Questions regarding this bibliography can be directed to:
Jean Albrecht
j-albr@tc.umn.edu
(612) 624-2779
Fax: (612) 624-3733
 

American Trails Trail Construction, Maintenance, and Management
http://www.americantrails.org/resources/

Western Trailbuilders Association
Reviews and links to publications on trail planning, design, construction and maintenance
http://www.trailbuilders.org/resources/books1.html

South Carolina Trail Program Trail Management Library
http://www.sctrails.net/Trails/LIBRARY/FSPubs/fspubs.html

TRAIL SHORTS
http://foothill.net/fta/work/maintnotes.html

A document from California State Parks and Recreation on wilderness trails and intended to be used as a reference by trail maintenance crews.

Recreational Trail Design and Construction
http://www.extension.umn.edu/distribution/naturalresources/DD6371.html

University of Minnesota extension service, 1997

Organizing Outdoor Volunteers
Moore, LaFarge, and Tracy. $4.95
Appalachian Mountain Club 288 pp
ISBN 1-878239-16-3

Volunteer Vacations
(Periodically revised, Currently 9th ed.)
ISBN 1-55652-179-0, McMillon. $17.95
Chicago Review Press, 814 N. Franklin Street, Chicago, IL 60610