Building Urban Trails in Difficult Places--American Trails Webinar on July 17

American Trails presents this webinar to help trail planners address the challenges and complexities of building trails in difficult situations. The presenters will review alignment strategies, structural systems, and techniques for solving these problems and building quality trails.

$35 members / $55 nonmembers  (CEUs $20 additional fee)
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Learning Objectives:

• Understanding techniques and tools for getting a trail or greenway from here to there
• A knowledge base helpful in assessing the feasibility of trail alignment options
• Examples useful in working more effectively with engineers and other technical designers in solving trail alignment and structural problems
• Tools and examples for making the case for approval agencies such as floodplain administrators, traffic engineers, etc.
• Tools and examples for making the case to political decision makers that the project is feasible
• Successful solutions with visual examples and case studies can be enabling and stimulate other creative solutions  

The webinar presenters include three seasoned greenway experts with a long history of successful urban trail building:

• Chuck Flink, FASLA, Owner, Greenways Incorporated, greenway planner/designer/landscape architect/developer and urban trail specialist, Durham, NC
• Bill Neumann, ASLA, Vice President, DHM Design, greenway planner/designer/landscape architect/developer and urban trail specialist, Denver, CO
• Bob Searns, Owner, The Greenway Team and Chair Emeritus of the American Trails Board, greenway planner/designer/developer, Denver, CO