Advocacy
DOI Releases Economic Impact Report
June 17, 2016 – Today the Department of the Interior released a report that showed that our National Parks, Fish & Wildlife Refuges, and other lands they manage are more…
Read MoreNew NRT’s Announced on Eve of National Trails Day
June 3, 2016 – On the day leading into American Hiking Society’s National Trails Day, Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell and National Park Service Director Jonathan Jarvis announced the…
Read MoreAHS Report Highlights Hiking-Health Connections
May 26, 2016 – American Hiking Society is pleased to announce the release of it’s newest report, Hiking Trails in America: Pathways to Health, in which it makes the case that…
Read MoreMajor Victory for Conservation of America’s Great Outdoors
April 20, 2016 – As America prepares to celebrate Earth Day, the U.S. Senate passed legislation that would permanently reauthorize the Land and Water Conservation Fund (LWCF). First passed in…
Read MoreHouse Trails Caucus
The mission of the bipartisan House Trails Caucus is to provide a forum for interested Members of Congress to work together for the creation and conservation of our natural landscape and recreation…
Read MoreHike the Hill 2016 a Success
More than 75 advocates from all across the country came to Washington, D.C., to discuss issues affecting hiking trails as well as to meet with Members of Congress and land…
Read MoreNational Forest System Trails Stewardship Act
In 2013 the Government Accountability Office (GAO) conducted a study of U.S. Forest Service trails that revealed a $314 million backlog in trail maintenance and that only one fourth of…
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