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24 Community Connections
Symbolic Legacy: Pennsylvania’s
Heritage Rail Trail County Park and
Torrey C. Brown Rail Trail (2015
Rail-Trail Hall of Fame)
Midwest Masterpiece: Minneapolis’
Midtown Greenway (2015 Rail-Trail
Hall of Fame)
In Memory of Rail-Trail Champion
Deb Hubsmith
26 Rail-Trail Report
27 Destination: Florida
Part of Florida’s award-winning state
park system, Tallahassee’s St. Marks
Trail is a scenic and challenging 16-mile
ride connecting welcoming towns, river
life, historic sites and the 500,000-acre
Apalachicola National Forest.
BY DOUG ALDERSON
2 Point of View
3 Members Network
4 Tracks ‘n’ Ties
Eye On: Alabama’s Rotary Trail
Trail Tales: A Lifetime of Biking
Comes Full Circle for Philly Railroad
Retiree
6 Greetings From …
Connecticut, Wyoming, Missouri
and Virginia
8 Saving America’s Prairies
Running through some of the
last tallgrass prairie in the world,
Illinois’ Heartland Pathways
and Kickapoo Rail Trail are helping to
preserve—and create connections to—
one of America’s critical ecosystems.
BY ELIZABETH STRIANO
On the cover: Late-blooming prairie Asters and
Goldenrods grow along an unused rail bed.The
Monarch butterfly stores food as winter nears.
Photo by Chris Bucher
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CHRIS BUCHER
DAVID REID
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IN DENGEL
DOUG ALDERSON
14 The Outdoor Advocate
St. Louis-based active lifestyle consultant
and trail developer Greg Brumitt
discusses why trail use is a powerful
driver in urban conservation initiatives.
BY AMY KAPP
16 Connecting the Wild West:
the Greater Yellowstone Trail
Passing through three states and a
vast collection of parks and federally
protected lands, the proposed 180-
mile Greater Yellowstone Trail project
is creating new links to America’s
preservation heritage.
BY KATIE HARRIS
20 A View From … The Wild
From birds to buffalos (and even sea
lions), these wildlife snapshots prove
that you never know what nature has in
store along America’s rail-trails.
BY DANIELLE TAYLOR