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TREKS: Trails, route-making, environmental knowledge and stewardship study
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Description: This project examines how trailbuilding and routemaking influence stewardship practices, identity, and the politics of conservation. By engaging with and actively shaping landscapes, trailbuilding communities come to know landscapes as storied social spaces. This study asks how trails come into being, both physically and as imagined landscapes by their creators, managers, and users. Research is situated ethnographically both virtually and in the Mid-Atlantic and Sierra Nevada regions, where existing long-distance trails (the AT and PCT) and proposed trail management plans shape local conservation and recreation landscapes.
Participation Requested: Trail Use & Stewardship Survey - University of Maryland
You are invited to participate in a research study on trail use and trail building practices as they relate to stewardship ideology, sense of place, and community identity. We are reaching out to communities and individuals with an interest in trails. We define trail building as including both paid and volunteer acti…
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