Trails--New Guidebook to Preserve Trails

["Linda B. Merims" <lbm@naisp.net>]

The Equestrian Land Conservation Resource has a new

publication:  "Getting Organized--Creating an Equestrian

Trails Organization."

 

You can get an order form for this and the ELCR's

"Equestrian Land Protection Guide" booklet at:

 

http://www.elcr.org

 

 

If you don't know who the Equestrian Land Conservation

Resource is, they are a group spawned from the Board

of Directors of the Pony Club--generally speaking, a lot of

Middleburg, Virginia-area blueblood types who know the

importance of working the political machinery to get what

they want.  (This is the same general crowd who successfully

stopped Disney from building a theme park among the

Civil War battlefields in the very horsey Middleburg, Virginia

area outside Washington, DC.)  There were general land

conservation groups, these people noticed, but nothing

directly targeting *horse* land.  So they set up ELCR

three or four years ago, and got somebody all of us

at Ridecamp were already familiar with, Kandee Haertel,

to be its Executive Director.

 

Kandee's done a bang-up job getting hard-core, nuts-and-bolts,

"how-to" information on horse land and trails issues published

and available to horsemen.

 

Buy the books.  Join the organization.

 

Linda B. Merims

lbm@naisp.net

Massachusetts, USA