SACKETS HARBOR â The state historic battlefield site here has been honored once again for some picture-perfect elements.
The American Trails National Trails photo contest for 2020 honored the Sackets Harbor Battlefield State Historic Site for its entry, which won in the âHistoric Trailsâ category.
American Trails is a national, nonprofit organization. Since 1988, it has been a collective voice for a diverse coalition of outdoor enthusiasts.
American Trails sponsors its annual contest for photographs of designated National Recreation Trails across the country. The contest provides awards in several categories and shows off entries (and previous winners) on the its website.
The goal of the contest is to highlight the diversity of the National Recreational Trails and to make more Americans familiar with them.
U.S. House to vote on Congressman Salud Carbajal’s Central Coast Heritage Protection Act on Friday
SANTA BARBARA, Calif House representatives from California met Thursday to discuss the importance of protecting one million acres of public land across California.
The meeting came ahead of Friday s vote on the Protecting America s Wilderness and Public Lands Act. It s a package of public lands bills strongly supported by the Biden Administration that would protect lands and waters across California, Colorado, Washington and Arizona.
The package includes Rep. Salud Carbajal s Central Coast Hertiage Protection Act. I m proud this act includes my bill, the Central Coast Heritage Protection Act, which puts into wilderness conservation over 250,000 acres. It establishes the Condor Trail between Los Angeles and Monterey. It protects the ecosystem in the region and it helps our climate change challenge that we have, Carbajal said.
The Carrizo Plains during a “superbloom” event.
–The Central Coast Heritage Protection Act, a bill that would safeguard public lands and wild rivers in the Los Padres National Forest and the Carrizo Plain National Monument, and would designate a 400-mile National Recreation Trail, was reintroduced by Congressman Salud Carbajal (D-Santa Barbara) this week. Carbajal’s district includes Paso Robles and all of San Luis Obispo County.
“Pragmatic policies like the Central Coast Heritage Protection Act make a real difference in the fight against climate change, give residents and visitors the opportunity to appreciate the great outdoors, and boosts our recreation economy, all while preserving the plant and animal life that call these public lands home,” said Congressman Carbajal.
Great winter hiking trails across Pennsylvania
Updated Feb 12, 2021;
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Here are 30 great spots for some cold-weather trekking.
Pennsylvania’s Trail of the Year for 2021, the 38-mile Delaware & Hudson Trail in Lackawanna, Susquehanna and Wayne counties, will appear on many lists of prime trails this year. Tracing the former corridor of the Delaware & Hudson Railway, which primarily carried anthracite coal out of the Lackawanna Valley during the second half of the 19th century, the D&H Trail is open to motorized and non-motorized users, including walkers, bikers, equestrians as well as snowmobilers.
And, in that same vein, the Trail of the Year in 2020 was the 46-mile Ghost Town Trail in Cambria and Indiana counties as Pennsylvania’s Trail of the Year. Launched in 1994 as a 12-mile segment, Ghost Town Trail was the first trail in the state constructed with transportation enhancement funding. An estimated 80,000 users each year enjoy the trail, which was designate
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The Catwalk National Recreation Area in the Gila National Forest serves as a testament to man’s ingenuity, tenacity, and engineering acumen. This recreation area provides today’s visitors to the Glenwood River District site with a glimpse into western New Mexico’s mining past of more than a century ago and the natural splendor of a slot river canyon.
The Catwalk, as it is commonly known, derives its name from the original plank-board walkway placed atop a three-mile steel pipeline constructed in Whitewater Canyon in the 1890s to funnel water to a silver and gold ore processing plant near the canyon’s mouth. Although little remains of the old pipe, the modern, all-access trail, which features elevated steel bridges (catwalks) bolted to the massive rock canyon walls, follows the original pipeline route above Whitewater Creek.