Outdoor Recreation in America
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GOM 2012
Great Outdoors Month 2012 Activities
Great Outdoors Month is an excellent time to, well, get outdoors! Below is a list of the national events encouraging people to hike, fish, boat, camp, and get outdoors! Click on the day to be linked to the website.
National Trails Day, American Hiking Society: June 2
National Fishing and Boating Week, Take Me Fishing: June 2 - 10
National Get Outdoors Day, ARC & USDA Forest Service: June 9
Welcome to the Water on National Marina Day, Association of Marina Industries: June 9
Great American Backyard Campout, National Wildlife Federation: June 23
National Trails Day, American Hiking Society: June 2
National Fishing and Boating Week, Take Me Fishing: June 2 - 10
National Get Outdoors Day, ARC & USDA Forest Service: June 9
Welcome to the Water on National Marina Day, Association of Marina Industries: June 9
Great American Backyard Campout, National Wildlife Federation: June 23
June 9 is also a fee free day at all National Parks, National Forests, National Wildlife Refuges, and BLM Lands.
Great Outdoors Month 2012 Proclamations
June is a special time to celebrate America’s Great Outdoors. National leaders for years have issued proclamations recognizing this month as Great Outdoors Month, a time when America celebrates its natural treasures. This recognition highlights the benefits of active fun outdoors in our magnificent shared resources of forests, parks, refuges, and other public lands and waters. Proclamations generate widespread media attention, encouraging millions of American families to move outside, and prompting public discussion of important issues linked to outdoor recreation, including volunteerism, health, and outdoor ethics.
Coalition for Recreational Trails Announces 2012 Annual Achievement Awards Winners
2012 CRT Awards | GOM 2012
Posted on Fri, 06/06/2008 - 17:27.
The 14th annual presentation of the Coalition for Recreational Trails (CRT) presented eight trails from across the United States with the CRT’s Annual Achievement Award in recognition of their outstanding use of Recreational Trail Program (RTP) funds. Awards for Outstanding State Trail Program and Outstanding Recreational Trails Advisory Committee were also presented at the event on Capitol Hill on June 5, 2012.
The trail projects honored for their use of RTP funds were:
Maintenance and Rehabilitation
Lombard Trail (Idaho) - Bureau of Land Management/Challis Field Office; Great Basin Institute; Idaho Department of Parks and Recreation
Construction and Design - Local
Chattahoochee Nature Trails (Florida) - City of Chattahoochee
Construction and Design - Long Distance
Tahoe-Pyramid Bikeway (Nevada) - Tahoe-Pyramid Bikeway
Education and Communication
Intertwine Alliance Bi-State Regional Trails Website(Oregon-Washington) - The Intertwine Alliance
Multiple-Use Management and Corridor Sharing
Kwolh Butte Shelter (Oregon) - Deschutes National Forest
Environment and Wildlife Compatibility
Swords Park Trail (Montana) - City of Billings
Accessibility Enhancement
The Children’s Center’s Life Trails and Therapeutic Park (Oklahoma) - The Children’s Center
Use of Youth Conservation/Service Corps
Mount Yale Trail Realignment(Colorado) - Pike and San Isabel National Forests/Salida Ranger District; Colorado Fourteeners Initiative; Rocky Mountain Youth Corps; Volunteers for Outdoor Colorado; Colorado College; Wildlands Restoration Volunteers
The winners of State Awards were:
Outstanding State Trail Program
Tennessee Greenways and Trails Program
Outstanding State Recreational Trails Advisory Committee
Illinois Greenways & Trails Council
