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Spring 2000 Final National Trails Day is June 3. Join us on the Arizona Trail Vol. 6, No. 1 News and Information on the State’s border-to-border Arizona Trail project Spring-2000 National Trails Day 2000 Celebrate the Arizona Trail - Millennium Legacy Trail Designation! Saturday, June 3rd is National Trails Day. All Arizona Trail select from a variety of other trail fiestas to be held in Pine, enthusiasts are encouraged to participate in this celebration of Superior, Oracle, Tucson, Patagonia, and Sierra Vista. Check the the trail! ATA has scheduled a variety of activities for you to website or call ATA for details (602-252-4794). choose from. Hike or ride the trail and/or attend one These events are a wonderful opportunity to focus of the community celebrations. a tremendous amount of attention on the success of Register with ATA and hike or ride a section of the the Arizona Trail - in local communities, statewide, Arizona Trail individually or as a group, on or before and nationally. Communities along the trail will be June 3rd. In exchange for a trail condition report reminded of this exciting volunteer and partnership- returned to ATA, you will receive a bandanna and based project going through their backyard. water bottle for your participation. Check the ATA Awareness of the trail can result in a broader base of website (www.aztrail.org) or contact the registration support to accomplish our goal of completing this coordinator, Terry Sario ([email protected] or 602- 790-mile border-to-border trail. 246-4508). ATA invites everyone to participate not only in Following your hike or ride, join other trails using the trail, but celebrating it as well at one of the enthusiasts at one of seven community events along community events on June 3rd. Invite a friend to join the Arizona Trail. The premier celebration will be at you for a very significant day in the history of the Buffalo Park in Flagstaff starting at 2:00 pm and Arizona Trail. Be a part of that history and celebrate lasting all afternoon. There will be music, clinics, and the successful accomplishments that has become the legacy of demonstrations as well as outdoor clubs and retailers. You can the Arizona Trail. Map and volunteer forms on pages 9 & 10. Annual Meeting Attracts Statewide Members An impressive group of guest speakers Only one trail from each state was nominated for this honor who are national, state, and regional by each state's governor. The Rails-to-Trails Conservancy, trails leaders helped attract the largest White House Millennium Council, American Express, and The number of attendees to ever participate National Endowment for the Arts joined together to sponsor this in an ATA Annual Meeting and highly-acclaimed national celebration of America's most Recognition Luncheon held in Phoenix outstanding trails for the new century. at the South Mountain Environmental Others honored at the Annual Meeting included rigorous trail Education Center on Saturday, February planning and construction volunteers Merle Parmer and Chuck 5, 2000. Horner; talented graphic artist Phyllis Ralley; ATA database Keynote speaker Steve Elkinton, National Park Service's Program Leader Keynote speaker: Steve Elkinton for the National Trail System, Pam Gluck, Executive Director of American Trails, and Denise Meridith, Arizona State Director of the Bureau of Land Management, were highlighted guests at the Recognition Luncheon. Steve Elkinton and Pam Gluck made a special White House Millennium Council presentation to Dale Shewalter, founder of the Arizona Trail, designating the Arizona Trail as one of America's Millennium Legacy Trails. A full house of Arizona Trail enthusiasts enjoy the ATA Annual Meeting at the South Mountain Park, Environmental Education Center. MANY MORE MILES TO BUILD… 1 The Arizona Trail President’s Pride by Jan Hancock Our Vision... When our newsletter editor, asked me if I would write an article from the president’s a continuous, non-motorized perspective for our quarterly newsletters, my reply was “If the space in our newsletter will trail traversing the state nearly allow me an opportunity to express how proud I am of so many of our volunteers, I’ll be 790 miles from Mexico to thrilled to do it!” Utah, linking deserts, As most Americans realize, one of the truly admirable strengths of our nation is the mountains, canyons, enormous number of exceptionally good, involved citizens who volunteer their time and talents communities, and people. to projects and organizations that better the American way of life. The Arizona Trail My pride rests with the exceptionally good and involved citizens that are volunteers in our Association coordinates the Arizona Trail project. I witness people every day, every hour, who extend their hands and planning, development, hearts to help move this exciting trail program forward. management and promotion of Our admired volunteers need to take pride in what they are doing to make Arizona one of the Arizona Trail for the brightest stars in our nation’s outstanding long-distance trail system. We will probably recreational and educational never know how much pleasure and environmental education we are bringing to the unknown experiences for non-motorized visitors who will travel from all around the world to experience the Arizona Trail in the trail use. decades to come. Each mile of trail we build and effectively maintain opens an opportunity for our friends, Board of Directors families, visitors, and yes, even ourselves, to experience the “real Arizona.” President:Jan Hancock Our volunteers give community group presentations; regularly mail brochures to several [email protected] hundred visitor centers and public land agency offices; sleep out in tents on rainy nights at trail Vice President: Steve Saway building events; make scores of telephone calls; tug, pull, and strain to build a good, solid gate [email protected] that will withstand years of use; work side-by-side with archaeologists and biologists to help Treasurer: Carl Golnik flag the trail route for construction crews; rebuild the trail after a forest fire; trim bushes and [email protected] clear tread to maintain the trail; attend meetings all over the state; help youth programs become Secretary: Geri DeMuro involved; train new stewards who adopt sections of the trail... it goes on and on every day, [email protected] every hour. Executive Director: Each person who has become involved in the Arizona Trail project needs to throw his or her Larry Snead shoulders back with pride and recognize what an important gift your time and talent are giving [email protected] to the future of America, and Arizona. I’m awed by the extent of the commitment and effort Steve Anderson invested by each and every one of you, and I am sincerely proud of everything you are [email protected] accomplishing to keep our project moving forward. Bob Bohannen Dawson Henderson [email protected] Cynthia Lovely Dean Prichard Honored [email protected] One of the founding Charter Members of the Arizona Jim Martin Trail Association, Dean Prichard, was recently [email protected] recognized at the 6th Annual ATA Annual Meeting for Phyllis Ralley his five years of Outstanding Service on the Board of [email protected] Directors of the Arizona Trail Association. Terry Sario Dean is the Segment Steward for the Oracle Ridge [email protected] passage of the Arizona Trail. He was instrumental in Dale Shewalter opening the Cody Trail segment and establishing the Eric Smith American Flag trailhead at Oracle, near State Parks’ [email protected] Oracle Center for Environmental Education. Dean owns High Jinks Ranch, a historic treasure ATA welcomes articles and along the route of the Arizona Trail. HIs home on the photos from trail users and ranch has been placed on the National Register of volunteers. Please mail to ATA Historic Places. or e-mail: [email protected] An active horseman and talented journalist for regional, national and international publications, Dean Arizona Trail Association brought his equestrian knowledge and experience to the P.O. Box 36736 ATA when the organization was being formed. He Phoenix, Arizona 85067 served on the ATA Board of Directors from 1994-1999. 602-252-4794 He is currently helping a group of enthusiastic long www.aztrail.org ATA Founding Charter Member, Dean distance trail riders in the Oracle and Tucson area in Prichard at home and in his element. planning a through-ride on the Arizona Trail next year. 2 …MANY MORE MILES TO BUILD Executive Director’s Report by Larry Snead I recently had the opportunity to participate in a very unique, the value and opportunities the Arizona Trail brings our state. I interesting and informative event in Washington, DC. The was very pleased to learn that they all already knew a lot about American Hiking Society invited me to participate in their the Arizona Trail and really appreciated the information update. annual “Hike the Hill - Trail Advocacy Each office now has a lot more information Week” held March 12-15, 2000. Over 30 about the Arizona Trail including the Trails were represented by the 60 event Westcliffe Publisher’s book “Along The participants including the Appalachian Trail, Arizona Trail” and a copy of our new video. Pacific Crest Trail, Washington Trails Congressman J.D. Hayworth was very Association, Santa Fe Trail, Florida Trail interested in our trail project and wants to Association and the new American be supportive in several ways. He requested Discovery Trail. an opportunity to attend one of our work During the first two days of the program events so he can help us build the trail. there were presentations on accessing state Congressman Pastor and his staff were trails funding, the Land and Water excited to learn that in Pima County there Conservation Fund and the Recreational are plans to link the Arizona Trail with the Trails and Enhancements Programs of the Anza Trail and that the Anza Trail links Department of Transportation.
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