Best Practices for Managing Trails Using Volunteers

Title

Best Practices for Managing Trails Using Volunteers

Author

Kelly, Chris

Host Organization

Haliburton Highlands Trails and Tours Network
Host contact: Hoover, Karen

Supervising Faculty

Marsh, John
Department: Geography

Reference Number

TP-555

Date

2006

Location of Document

U-Links Office and online

Area

Haliburton County

Subject

Best practices for trail development and management

Geography
Natural Resource Management
Environmental Studies

Description

The research will be used to develop a model for best practices for trail development and management that will assist the organization in developing successful partnerships in the community.

Abstract

This report answers the question: What are the best practices for the trail organizations? Haliburton highlands Trails and Tours wants to know what the best practices other trail organizations are using to manage their trails by using volunteers. Volunteers play an important role in non profit organizations and are of great value to these organizations. Therefore it is of great importance that Haliburton Highlands has an effective volunteer management process and will be a useful tool in developing and will be a useful tool in developing the organizations volunteer policies. Key areas discussed are how to reward and recognize volunteers. The purpose of this is to develop the volunteer system so that it will contribute to trail management at Trails and Tours.

Publisher

Trent University

Files

Reference

Kelly, Chris, Best Practices for Managing Trails Using Volunteers, Trent University, 2006