Best Practices for Managing Trails Using Volunteers

Best Practices for Managing Trails Using Volunteers

Kelly, Chris

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

Marsh, John
Department: Geography

TP-555

2006

U-Links Office and online

Haliburton County

Best practices for trail development and management

Geography
Natural Resource Management
Environmental Studies

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.

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.

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