Trails Forever Forum

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Trails Forever Forum





This event is one in a series of Trails Forever Forums to discuss the planning, design, restoration, maintenance, interpretation, protection, use and enjoyment of hiking, biking, horseback riding, and water trails within, and connecting to, the Greater Washington National Parks.
Featured at this forum will be:

A brief overview of the National Park Service’s Trails Forever Campaign, the Greater Washington National Parks Fund and the National Park Foundation.

Remarks by Trish Zenobi, Marketing Director of Lipton® Tea on the Unilever/Lipton Tea and the National Park Service’s Healthy Parks-Healthy Living Program which is designed to highlight the vitality, wellness and outdoor recreation benefits inherent in National Parks.

Remarks by Bob and Barbara Lamborn of Chesapeake Country Cycling of Maryland on bicycling, fitness, and positive life styles, and their design of a 2,500-mile bicycle route network connecting trails, parks, forests, fish and wildlife lands and other sites throughout the Delmarva Peninsula in Delaware, Maryland and Virginia.

A question and answer session will follow the remarks. Refreshments will be served.



To attend: Please RSVP with Glenn Eugster via e-mail at glenn_eugster@nps.gov. Or call NPS at (202) 619-7492. Please respond by no later than September 16, 2005.


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About Healthy Parks-Healthy Living: Healthy Parks-Healthy Living
is a program of the National Park Service designed to raise
public awareness of the recreation resources inherent in America’s
National Parks and to promote wellness and vitality. The
program, which supports the Greater Washington National Park’s
Trails Forever Campaign and other urban National Park initiatives
across the country, is helping to raise awareness for the
National Park Service’s “daily minimum recreation requirement™.”
Healthy Parks-Healthy Living is made possible in part by a grant
from the National Park Foundation through the generous support of
Lipton® Tea, a brand of Unilever, a Proud Partner of America’s
National Parks.

About Bob and Barbara Lamborn: Bob and Barbara Lamborn are bicyclists, writers, speakers and operators of Chesapeake Country Cycling. Since they began cycling in the summer of 1984, the Lamborns have ridden their bicycles over 48,000 miles in 42 states and 10 foreign countries. Bob is a certified cyclist and cycling instructor by The League of American Bicyclists and served as Advisor for the League’s Effective Cycling Program for Maryland and Delaware. Bob and Barbara have conducted cycling clinics and workshops and have designed a 2,500-mile bicycle route network connecting selected parks, fish and wildlife areas, forests and other ecological points of interest throughout Delaware, Maryland, and Virginia’s Delmarva Peninsula. They also assisted with the publication of the Great Delmarva Bicycling Trail.

About Trails Forever: The Greater Washington National Parks are
working to strengthen the connection between the communities of
Greater Washington and more than 100 National Park sites in the
region by raising private funds, creating partnerships and making
strategic grants to parks and their partners. The Trails Forever
Campaign invites area citizens to reacquaint themselves with the
717 miles of National Park trails down the road, across the
street or around the corner. More than 88,000 acres of parkland
offer residents and visitors hundreds of activities from biking,
hiking, paddling, horseback riding, and volunteering, and 250
miles of waterfront in 14 parks.

About the National Park Foundation: The National Park Foundation
(NPF) is the Congressionally-chartered nonprofit partner of
America’s National Parks. The mission of the National Park
Foundation is to strengthen the enduring connection between the
American people and their National Parks by raising private
funds, making strategic grants, creating innovative partnerships
and increasing public awareness.