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WHAT YOU CAN DO TO "SAVE THE
TRAILS"
The Connecticut Horse Council is a volunteer organization
that functions with its membership of individuals and
organizations.
The Trails Committee looks forward to the Council's
membership to volunteer its service to help it achieve its
goals.
We must keep positive when facing the loss of public
trails and remain proactive in land use decisions.
Some ways this can be done are listed below:
- Join the CT Horse Council and become unified in the
horse industry.
- Volunteer any time, your "expertise" or monetary
contributions to help us to achieve our goals.
- We must continue to be good partners with public
owned land managers, such as the Department of
Environmental Protection (DEP), facilities that allow
equestrian use, and town owned public lands, by offering
our time and financial support for trails maintenance and
development.
- We need to pay attention to issues that come before
our local planning and zoning committees and
boards. We need to have local equestrian
representation on them.
- We need to continue to discuss our interest with our
senators, delegates and congressmen and let them know
that we want more funding directed towards trail
development in our public facilities.
Most of all, we need to become better stewards of the
land and recognize that we do have a physical impact on our
trails, and help minimize this impact through smarter use
patterns, and better design. Water quality is a big
environmental issue these days and it is one that may very
well affect our trail access if we are not careful about how
we treat our streambeds and banks.
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