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.
Universal Access Trails and Shared Use Paths
Debra Wolf Goldstein, Esq. and Larry Knutson
This manual reviews Best Management Practices (“BMPs”) to utilize when planning, designing, constructing, and maintaining pedestrian trails for universal accessibility—for providing trails usable by all people, to the greatest extent possible, without separate or segregated access for people with disabilities.
Sustainable Trails: Doing it Right the First Time
John Favro
When you construct or reroute a trail, you are putting a structure on the landscape that will be there, in good or bad condition, for 100 years or more in most places. So why not do it right?
Gardening Advice - Pruning Spring Flowering Shrubs
RHS - Royal Horticultural Society
See how and when to prune your spring flowering shrubs to produce beautiful blooms next year.
Biggest Pruning Mistakes And How to Avoid Them
joegardenerTV
Learn how to avoid the 3 biggest mistakes when it comes to pruning. Knowing how, when and where to prune is key when it comes to maintaining your trees and shrubs. In this video, Joe Lamp'l shows you how to avoid costly pruning mistakes, and what you need to do to keep your plants and trees looking their best.
How to Prune Landscape Trees and Shrubs
Utah State University Extension
Learn when to prune, how to make proper cuts and gain valuable insight behind pruning techniques for landscape trees and shrubs. Learn the do's and don'ts behind proper pruning practices.
Mile-a-minute
PennState Extension
Mile-a-minute is an invasive, noxious weed from eastern Asia that is rapidly colonizing non-crop areas in Pennsylvania and surrounding states.
Basic Trail Maintenance
PublicResourceOrg
Basic Trail Maintenance - USDA Forest Service Learn the basics of trail maintenance and how to select the right tool for each task.
Surface Water Control Techniques for Trail Maintenance
PublicResourceOrg
Learn routine maintenance to prevent water erosion on trails.
How To Maintain And Build Mountain Bike Trails
Global Mountain Bike Network
Learn how to maintain mountain bike trails and how to build new ones with the help of this guide.
Mountain Bike Trail Maintenance
MTB MAG
Mountain bike trail maintenance techniques. Some simple improvements we chose to do can be seen in the video!
Park Ranger
I Am Pinellas County
Meet William Shaw, a park ranger with Pinellas County’s Parks and Conservation Resources. See what he does every day to maintain our parks, inform our visitors and even protect our wildlife.
How to Safely Fell or Cut Down a Tree Using a Chainsaw
Husqvarna USA
Want to learn how to properly fell a tree with a chainsaw? This requires careful planning and high degree of skill. Most importantly, safety first.
How to work with a chainsaw
Husqvarna
In this chainsaw tutorial you will see how to work with a chainsaw when it comes to felling, limbing, cross-cutting and safety.
Nature Trail Development on Small Acreages
University of Arkansas
The purpose of this publication is to provide anintroduction to trail design for those who intend todevelop trails for nature walking, hiking, horsebackriding or ATVs on less than 40 acres.
Safe Routes to Parks
National Recreation & Park Association
This framework is intended to beused as a guide that will engage leaders and community members inan ongoing process to ensure that community policies and practicessupport safe and equitable access to parks.
