Trails and Greenways
Trails and greenways provide enjoyable and safe options for transportation, which helps to improve air quality. Additionally, greenways prevent soil erosion and filter pollution caused by agricultural and road runoff, protecting land along rivers and streams and helping to improve water quality. This area contains resources applicable to planning, development, and maintenance of trails, greenways, and natural buffer zones within our parks.
Conservation Landscaping Guidelines
Chesapeake Conservation Landscaping Council, 2013
Engaging in the conservation landscaping practices described here can make an important difference in helping preserve the region’s plants, habitats, and animals, all critical elements in the complex web of life that characterizes a watershed.
Basic Principles of Watershed Restoration and Stormwater Management
University of Maryland Extension, 2020
The objective of this document is to provide an overview of the most relevant urban stormwater management and watershed restoration issues, common mitigating practices, and regulations relevant to the Chesapeake Bay watershed.
Habitat Gardening for Wildlife
Virginia Cooperative Extension, 2015
If we provide consistent, clear messagesand simple guidance about how to improve or restore habitat in our communities, then the resulting actionsby the public should help to slow—and ultimately, one hopes, to reverse—the trend of declining wildlife species.
Invasive Plants and Their Native Look-alikes
Delaware Department of Agriculture, 2008
This guide fills a need for a regional photographic guide to a broad selection of invasive plants that are often confused with similar native look-alikes.
Why Mulch Volcanoes are Bad
University of Missouri, 2001
Brief article describing the effects of a common landscaping mistake.
Guide to Restoring Native Plants in NYC
Madison Square Park Conservancy, 2021
This guide was designed for New York City residents, professional land managers, and gardeners to choose the plants with the greatest ecological impact on our city.
Madison Square Park Tree Conservation Plan
Madison Square Park Conservancy, 2017
This tree plan, not only comprises a history of trees that once stood in the Park and catalogues the trees currently standing, but also directs the succession and maintenance of the tree canopy that future generations of Park users will enjoy.
Trail Maintenance Basics
Rails-to-Trails, 2021
Trail building toolbox
Routine Trail Maintenance Cost Per Mile
Rails-to-Trails, 2021
The purpose of this table is to quickly give a general sense of the routine maintenance cost per mile of various types of multiuse trails in different regions of the United States.
PA Certified Pesticide Applicators & Registered Technicians
PA Department of Agriculture, 2021
Current requirements for public / commercial pesticide applicators and registered technicians outlined by the state of Pennsylvania
Trail Construction and Maintenance Notebook
US Department of Agriculture, 2007
This notebook has pulled together basic trail construction and maintenance information, presented it in an easy-to-understand fashion, and oriented it to the needs of the trail worker.
Motorized Trail Construction and Maintenance Manual
Maine Department of Conservation, 2011
This handbook will show you examples of how to construct and maintain trails that minimize erosion and environmental impacts while providing safe accessible trails.
Trail Design for Small Properties
University of Minnesota Extension, 2006
Trail Design for Small Properties provides simple, inexpensive solutionsfor designing, building, and maintaining sustainable trials—trails forhiking, horseback riding, bicycling, cross-country skiing, snowmobiling,off-highway motorcycles (OHMs), and all-terrain vehicles (ATVs).
Trail Bridge Rail Systems
US Forest Service, 2007
Choosing a rail system for trail bridges andboardwalks can be difficult. This tech tip explainsthe differences between three basic rail systems,discusses Forest Service requirements, and provides a simple process for determining the basic rail system that best fits your structure.
Sustainable Trail Bridge Design
US Department of Agriculture, 2020
This report focuses on designing new, short,single-span, wooden trail bridges that the Forest Service classifies as minor and major trail bridges. This report also briefly addresses other bridge types and materials outside the minor and major trail bridge classifications.
