Horse Trail Notes of interest
Ken Carpenter
Hello fellow trail rider.
- A new AGO Listening Session has been set in our area in Chicago. National discussions are being held so that we can share our trail experiences in the region and help develop ideas for future protection and restoration. President Obama signed a Presidential Memorandum on April 16, 2010 establishing the America's Great Outdoors Initiative (AGO). The AGO Initiative aims to reconnect Americans to the outdoors and promote community-level efforts to conserve and restore outdoor spaces. As part of the AGO Initiative, the administration will host "listening sessions" over the summer to collect public input as to how our federal partners can better serve the conservation and recreation interests of communities across the country.
- The Back County Horsemen Wilderness Committee, in its initial meeting in 1999, proposed that members work with their legislators to have wording inserted in new wilderness bills that would preserve our historical access. The wording approved by the Board of Directors was: “Traditional recreational saddle and pack stock use is recognized as an appropriate and historical use of wilderness.” The committee approached the Wilderness Society “Wild Riders” to jointly sponsor wording of that nature, and after extensive deliberation they have responded with language that they would not oppose. The following language is a huge improvement over what BCHA originally proposed
Deb Balliet
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Trail Rider Magazine Presents ELCR Equestrian Land & Trail Conservation Speakers Series at 2010 International Equestrian Festival
Trail Rider Magazine is sponsoring the Equine Land Conservation Resource’s (ELCR) six-seminar series at the International Equestrian Festival, set to run September 25 through October 10, 2010, in the Lexington Convention Center in the heart of downtown Lexington, Kentucky.
The Equine Land Conservation Resource is seizing this opportunity to present a seminar series presented by equestrian for equestrians, and focused on land and trail conservation issues that affect all horse enthusiasts.
“We are very excited to be working with Trail Rider Magazine to participate in the International Equestrian Festival,” said ELCR Chief Executive Officer, Deb Balliet. “Trail Rider truly understands the importance of protecting land and trails for horse-related activity. This series will be a wonderful way to share that importance and knowledge with horsemen and horse enthusiasts from across the country and the world.”
Each seminar will feature an expert speaker or speaker(s) and the presentations will cover a variety of topics including trails, farmland protection, land stewardship, land use planning and economic development.
On Monday, September 27th, participants in the seminar, “Sustainable Trail Building & Equestrian Trail System Development,” will learn the latest in equestrian trail building, including techniques for building sustainable trails and stream crossings. A discussion will follow on trail system development on public and private lands. Topics covered include planning, liability, land owner relationships, and trail easements. The presenters are Dennis Blackburn and Deb Balliet. Blackburn is a certified Trail Design and Construction Specialist. He has worked with Local, State and Federal agencies to build and maintain equine trails. Balliet, a frequent presenter at equestrian trail conferences, is ELCR’s Chief Executive Officer and is member of the Federal Interagency on Trails, the national Coalition for Recreational Trials and the American Horse Council’s Recreation Committee.
Wednesday, September 29th, Trail Rider Magazine and ELCR present “Stronger Together on the Trails: Organizing Horsemen & Partnering with Others.” Since cooperation amongst trail recreationists is necessary on public lands due to limited resources, this discussion of shared use trails, how to organize your fellow horsemen and ideas for collaboration with other trail users is a must for trail riders. Presenters will be Deb Balliet of ELCR and Debbie Caffin, the US Forest Service Southern Region Trails Program manager.
“Farmland Protection – Options and Financial Incentives for Preserving Land,” will be presented on Friday, October 1st. This comprehensive discussion about how to conserve your farm in perpetuity, ensure equine use, and gain an understanding of the financial benefits available for conservation should not be missed. Deb Balliet, Laurel Florio, J.D., Mackenzie Royce, Esq., and Nancy Hamill Winter will facilitate. Florio, a land use attorney, is a member of the Land Trust Alliance’s Land Conservation Leadership Program Faculty, speaks annually at the LTA National Rally, conducts seminars and training sessions for the LTA and other entities, as well as acts as a consultant to LTA, land trusts, landowners, governmental and other non-profit organizations around the country. Royce is an attorney serving as Executive Director of Bluegrass Conservancy, a private, nonprofit land trust which holds 68 conservation easements permanently protecting over 10,356 acres in the Horse Capital of the World, the Inner Bluegrass Region of Kentucky. Winter is the President of ELCR and has served on the Board of a number of conservation organizations including the Jo Daviess Conservation Foundation, The Nature Conservancy, and Morton Arboretum. Winter has placed equine friendly easements on several family farms.
Anyone interested in equines and the environment will benefit from the Tuesday, October 5th seminar, “Leave No Trace for Equestrians.” Dennis Blackburn, a Leave No Trace Master Educator, will teach you how to have a minimum impact on the land where you ride through an understanding of the seven principles of Leave No for horse use. The LNT goal is responsible enjoyment and active stewardship of the land we use for recreation and competition.
On Thursday, October 7th, “Maintaining Horse Sport & Recreation in Your Community – Equestrian Participation in Land Use Planning,” will give participants a firm understanding of equestrian participation in comprehensive, recreation and greenway planning and how to get involved, what to fight for and how to go about it in your community. Deb Balliet of ELCR and Mary Hanson will present. Hanson is an Outdoor Recreation Planner with the National Park Service’s Rivers, Trails and Conservation Assistance program.
Finally, on Friday, October 8th, participants in “Money Talks! Why the Economic Impact of the Horse Matters,” will learn how job creation, agri-tourism and construction are all benefits of a strong equine-based economy. The session will include case studies of how equines contribute to the bottom line. The presenter, Libbie Johnson, organized the nation’s first National Equine Economic Summit in North Carolina in 2007. Johnson chairs the Equine Advisory Committee for the Polk County (NC) Chamber of Commerce and the Polk County Economic Development Department and serves on several equine-related boards, including United States Pony Club, Equine Land Conservation Resource, North Carolina Farm Bureau and the NC Equine Study Advisory Board.
For more information about the Trail Rider seminar series, please visit http://www.elcr.org/resources/TRELCRsem.pdf
About the Equine Land
Conservation Resource (ELCR)
The Equine Land Conservation Resource is the only national not-for-profit organization advancing the conservation of land for horse-related activity. ELCR serves as an information resource and clearinghouse for land and horse owners on issues related to equine land conservation, land use planning, land stewardship/best management practices, trails, liability and equine economic development. If you want to know more about ELCR, visit our website at www.elcr.org or call (859) 455-8383.
About Trail Rider Magazine
Trail Rider, An Active Interest Media publication, is targeted to horse-owning trail/recreational riders who wish to increase their knowledge of horses, horsemanship, trail riding, and horse camping to enhance the enjoyment of their chosen pursuits. The Trail Rider specializes in destination-oriented, from-the-saddle accounts and photographs, and fosters a sense of community among those who share a passion for riding adventures. Active Interest Media, Inc. (AIM) is a leading publisher of enthusiast magazines, consumer shows, books and Internet sites. AIM was formed by Wind Point Partners, a private equity investment firm with offices in Chicago, Ill., and Southfield, Mich., in partnership with CEO Efrem "Skip" Zimbalist III, in October 2003. The AIM Equine Network includes the print magazine titles American Cowboy, EQUUS, Horse & Rider, Practical Horseman, Dressage Today, Arabian Horse World, Discover Horses, EquiManagement, EquiShopper, In Stride, Spin to Win Rodeo and Trail Rider, and the websites EquiSearch.com, Equine.com, EquiShopper.com, HorseBooksEtc.com, DiscoverHorses.com, MyHorse.com, HitchUpMagazine.com and HorselinkMagazine.com.
About the International Equestrian Festival
The 2010 International Equestrian Festival presented by HRTV (September 25 – October 10, 2010), is a Horse Capital Productions event. Horse Capital Productions, LLC promotes entertainment, education, and tourism for the horse industry with large-scale events production and web-based education and entertainment solutions. For more information, visit http://horsecapitalproductions.com/index.php.
Yvette Rollins
Is anyone going to this session? Yvette
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Deb Balliet
ELCR has a couple reps going, Nancy Hamill Winter, our President and Lisa Dearson of The Royal Lusitanos.
This listening session has a special focus on health so be prepared to talk about how riding contributes to adult and child health.
Attached you will find the general equestrian talking points that ELCR and the AHC Recreation Committee worked up.
Hope a number of you can attend.
Yvette Rollins
| Thank you Deb. --- On Thu, 8/26/10, Deb Balliet <dbal...@elcr.org> wrote: |
Denise Maxwell
Denise Maxwell
On 8/26/2010 10:32 AM, Yvette Rollins wrote:
From: Ken Carpenter <witr...@gmail.com>
Subject: Horse Trail Notes of interest
To: ov...@googlegroups.com, sh...@googlegroups.com
Date: Thursday, August 26, 2010, 7:40 AM
Hello fellow trail rider.
I would like to draw your attention to several things here in mid August just as our weather starts to change and we all start thinking of fall trail riding.
- A new AGO Listening Session has been set in our area in Chicago. �National discussions are being held so that we can share our trail experiences in the region and help develop ideas for future protection and restoration. President Obama signed a Presidential Memorandum on April 16, 2010 establishing the America's Great Outdoors Initiative (AGO). The AGO Initiative aims to reconnect Americans to the outdoors and promote community-level efforts to conserve and restore outdoor spaces. As part of the AGO Initiative, the administration will host "listening sessions" over the summer to collect public input as to how our federal partners can better serve the conservation and recreation interests of communities across the country.
Why is this important? �Trail riders need to be concerned that they too should be considered as a vaild recreational trail user group and that we seek to preserve our green spaces and horse backriding promotes a healthy lifestyle. �Horseback riding also provides access to many that have chosen riding as their form of outdoor recreation as a way to overcome physical and age related challenges.
- The Back County Horsemen Wilderness Committee, in its initial meeting in 1999, proposed that members work with their legislators to have wording inserted in new wilderness bills that would preserve our historical access. The wording approved by the Board of Directors was: �Traditional recreational saddle and pack stock use is recognized as an appropriate and historical use of wilderness.� �The committee approached the Wilderness Society �Wild Riders� to jointly sponsor wording of that nature, and after extensive deliberation they have responded with language that they would not oppose. The following language is a huge improvement over what BCHA originally proposed �
Why is this important? �Federal legislation is currently in the works that may focus on recreation on public land that would high light hiking and biking. �The wording in the attached helps bring focus back to the historical use of horses and that the should be part of any wilderness legislation (wilderness legislation is coming, will it exclude horses or not from the new designated areas??).-�Ken Carpentera director of the WI State Horse Council� www.wisconsinstatehorsecouncil.org
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Yvette Rollins
I am glad you went. Thank you for everything you do.
Happy Trails, Yvette
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Denise Maxwell
Denise Maxwell
On 8/26/2010 6:40 AM, Ken Carpenter wrote:
Hello fellow trail rider.
I would like to draw your attention to several things here in mid August just as our weather starts to change and we all start thinking of fall trail riding.
- A new AGO Listening Session has been set in our area in Chicago. �National discussions are being held so that we can share our trail experiences in the region and help develop ideas for future protection and restoration. President Obama signed a Presidential Memorandum on April 16, 2010 establishing the America's Great Outdoors Initiative (AGO). The AGO Initiative aims to reconnect Americans to the outdoors and promote community-level efforts to conserve and restore outdoor spaces. As part of the AGO Initiative, the administration will host "listening sessions" over the summer to collect public input as to how our federal partners can better serve the conservation and recreation interests of communities across the country.
Why is this important? �Trail riders need to be concerned that they too should be considered as a vaild recreational trail user group and that we seek to preserve our green spaces and horse backriding promotes a healthy lifestyle. �Horseback riding also provides access to many that have chosen riding as their form of outdoor recreation as a way to overcome physical and age related challenges.
- The Back County Horsemen Wilderness Committee, in its initial meeting in 1999, proposed that members work with their legislators to have wording inserted in new wilderness bills that would preserve our historical access. The wording approved by the Board of Directors was: �Traditional recreational saddle and pack stock use is recognized as an appropriate and historical use of wilderness.� �The committee approached the Wilderness Society �Wild Riders� to jointly sponsor wording of that nature, and after extensive deliberation they have responded with language that they would not oppose. The following language is a huge improvement over what BCHA originally proposed �
Why is this important? �Federal legislation is currently in the works that may focus on recreation on public land that would high light hiking and biking. �The wording in the attached helps bring focus back to the historical use of horses and that the should be part of any wilderness legislation (wilderness legislation is coming, will it exclude horses or not from the new designated areas??).
-�Ken Carpenter
a director of the WI State Horse Council� www.wisconsinstatehorsecouncil.org
chairman of the WSHC Legislative Committee http://groups.google.com/group/wshc-legis
president of the Glacial Drumlin Horse Trail Assoc� http://sites.google.com/gdhta1equine rep on the Governor's State Trails Council� www.dnr.state.wi.us/org/land/parks/trails/council/WI rep to the American Horse Council & member of their Recreation Committee� www.horsecouncil.org
member of the Back Country Horsemen of America www.backcountryhorse.com
Deb Balliet
Here, here! Well said, Denise! Deb
From: ov...@googlegroups.com
[mailto:ov...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Denise Maxwell
Sent: Thursday, August 26, 2010 9:15 PM
To: ov...@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: Horse Trail Notes of interest
Don't forget that you can give comments online. I hope something like this one was entered by Ken or someone because it is well written. I am sure we all know that children who care for and ride horses do not have "nature deficit disorder" and usually stay healthy & strong both mentally and physically while developing great citizenship habits that are both humane and altruistic whether applied to people, other species or the environment.
Denise Maxwell
On 8/26/2010 6:40 AM, Ken Carpenter wrote:
Hello fellow trail rider.
I would like to draw your attention to several things here in mid August just as our weather starts to change and we all start thinking of fall trail riding.
- A new AGO Listening Session has been set in our area in Chicago. National discussions are being held so that we can share our trail experiences in the region and help develop ideas for future protection and restoration. President Obama signed a Presidential Memorandum on April 16, 2010 establishing the America's Great Outdoors Initiative (AGO). The AGO Initiative aims to reconnect Americans to the outdoors and promote community-level efforts to conserve and restore outdoor spaces. As part of the AGO Initiative, the administration will host "listening sessions" over the summer to collect public input as to how our federal partners can better serve the conservation and recreation interests of communities across the country.
Why is this important? Trail riders need to be concerned that they too should be considered as a vaild recreational trail user group and that we seek to preserve our green spaces and horse backriding promotes a healthy lifestyle. Horseback riding also provides access to many that have chosen riding as their form of outdoor recreation as a way to overcome physical and age related challenges.
- The Back County Horsemen Wilderness Committee, in its initial meeting in 1999, proposed that members work with their legislators to have wording inserted in new wilderness bills that would preserve our historical access. The wording approved by the Board of Directors was: “Traditional recreational saddle and pack stock use is recognized as an appropriate and historical use of wilderness.” The committee approached the Wilderness Society “Wild Riders” to jointly sponsor wording of that nature, and after extensive deliberation they have responded with language that they would not oppose. The following language is a huge improvement over what BCHA originally proposed
Why is this important? Federal legislation is currently in the works that may focus on recreation on public land that would high light hiking and biking. The wording in the attached helps bring focus back to the historical use of horses and that the should be part of any wilderness legislation (wilderness legislation is coming, will it exclude horses or not from the new designated areas??).
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Ken Carpenter
a director of the WI State Horse Council www.wisconsinstatehorsecouncil.org
chairman of the WSHC Legislative Committee http://groups.google.com/group/wshc-legis
president of the Glacial Drumlin Horse Trail Assoc http://sites.google.com/gdhta1
equine rep on the Governor's State Trails Council www.dnr.state.wi.us/org/land/parks/trails/council/
WI rep to the American Horse Council & member of their Recreation Committee www.horsecouncil.org