Trails and Greenways Design, Construction, and Management
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Agenda
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In Conjunction with Tony Boone Trails, Professional Trail Builders Association, and American Trails
Thursday, February 29, 2024
9:00 am – 4:00 pm CST
The Emergence and Growth of The Trails and Greenways Movement
Presented by: C. Flink
- History and current status of pedestrian, bicycle and other forms of non-motorized travel
- Existing types of trails and trail systems
- Demand and usage
- Trends and opportunities
More Than Just Trails and Greenways: Green Infrastructure
Presented by: C. Flink & B. Searns
- Green restoration: habitat, riparian health, and water quality
- Stormwater management and wetlands
- Climate resilience: sponge cites and grazing greenbelts
- Healing and rehabilitation places
Urban Trails: Design, Engineering and Construction
Presented by: C. Flink & B. Searns
- Guiding principles and basics of designing urban paths and trails
- Components, furnishings, opportunities and intersections; wayfinding
- Building trails in difficult places
- Accessibility
The Art and Science of Creating Sustainable, Natural Surface Trails
Presented by: T. Boone
- Our outdoor recreation industry
- Advantages and disadvantages of natural surface trails
- Trail connectivity and writing your own Rx
- Trail planning, design, construction and management
Beyond Greenways: The Next Step for City Trails and Walking Routes
Presented by: B. Searns
- Public health trends and the need for exercise infrastructure
- A new mode and geometry: grand loops and town walks
- Equitable access and ultra-lite hiking
- Next step in the evolution of the green routes concept
- Connections with other trails and transit modes
Making Projects Happen
Presented by: C. Flink
- Launching a vision, identifying stakeholders and engaging community members
- Addressing concerns and naysayers
- Obtaining funding, securing rights of ways and agency approvals
- Building viral pilot projects
Resolving Conflicts Among Uses and Beyond Silo Thinking
Presented by: T. Boone, C. Flink & B. Searns
- New vehicle types, micro mobility travel and uses
- Bikes vs pedestrians can you make everyone happy?
- Options and solutions
- The need for interdisciplinary thinking: planners, landscape architects,
architects, engineers, contractors, tourism, wellness folks
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Credits
Professional Engineers
6.0 PDHs
Architects
6.0 HSW CE Hours
6.0 AIA LU|HSW
Landscape Architects
6.0 HSW CE Hours
6.0 LA CES HSW PDHs
Certified Planners
CM 6.0
Continuing Education Credit Information
This webinar is open to the public and is designed to qualify for 6.0 PDHs for professional engineers, 6.0 HSW continuing education hours for licensed architects, and 6.0 HSW continuing education hours for landscape architects in all states that allow this learning method. Please refer to specific state rules to determine eligibility.
HalfMoon Education is an approved continuing education sponsor for engineers in Florida (Provider License No: CEA362), Indiana (License No. CE21700059), Maryland, New Jersey (Approval No. 24GP00000700) and North Carolina (S-0130). HalfMoon Education is deemed an approved continuing education sponsor for New York engineers and architects via its registration with the American Institute of Architects Continuing Education System (Regulations of the Commissioner §68.14(i)(2) and §69.6(i)(2)). Other states do not preapprove continuing education providers or courses.
The American Institute of Architects Continuing Education System has approved this course for 6.0 HSW LUs (Sponsor No. J885). Only full participation is reportable to the AIA/CES.
The Landscape Architecture Continuing Education System has approved this course for 6.0 HSW PDHs. Only full participation is reportable to the LA CES.
HalfMoon Education is an approved CM Provider with the American Planning Association. This course is registered for CM|6.0 for Certified Planners.
Attendance will be monitored, and attendance certificates will be available after the webinar for those who attend the entire course and score a minimum 80% on the quiz that follows the course (multiple attempts allowed).
On-Demand Credits
The preceding credit information only applies to the live presentation. This course in an on-demand format may not be eligible for the same credits as the live presentation; please consult your licensing board(s) to ensure that a structured, asynchronous learning format is appropriate. The following pre-approvals may be available for the on-demand format upon request:
6.0 HSW LUs (AIA)
6.0 HSW PDHs (LA CES)
Speakers
Tony Boone
Owner of Tony Boone TrailsIn 28 years, Mr. Boone has passionately led crews in sculpting almost 1,000 kilometers of shared-use and purpose-built trails for mountain bicyclists and other trail users of all ages and abilities around the world. His experience includes professional trail building companies, governmental agencies, and non-profit organizations. His passion is creating sustainable, kinesthetically and aesthetically diverse trails that mountain bikers love to ride. He is highly skilled on the utilization and training of state-of-the-art trail technology like the Sutter 500 Trail Dozer, SWECO 480 Trail Dozer, miniature/micro excavators, loaders, tracked carriers, and ATV rakes and harrows. Mr. Boone is a pioneer in the evolution and art of creating sustainable, machine-built trails for mountain bikers. His accomplishments include: establishing the first mountain bike patrol in Colorado in 1989, training eight IMBA/Subaru Trail Care Crews (1997-2011), inspiring the IMBA Trail Solutions Program (2001), and assisting with both IMBA books (Trail Solutions: IMBA’s Guide to Building Sweet Singletrack and Managing Mountain Bikes: IMBA’s Guide to Providing Great Riding). He has been an active member of the Professional Trail Builders Association and American Trails since 1995. His primary focus since the summer of 2010, has been assisting IMBA develop their international markets and creating the next generation of kinesthetically diverse “flow-based” tracks.
Charles “Chuck” Flink
Owner/President of Greenways IncorporatedMr. Flink is an award-winning planner, designer, and author. Mr. Flink is the founder, owner and president of Greenways Incorporated, a consulting firm located in Durham, North Carolina. He is widely regarded as one of America’s leading greenway planners, having completed comprehensive greenway, trail, and open space plans for more than 250 communities within 36 States and having provided consulting services in Argentina, Canada, China, the Czech Republic, Japan, and St. Croix, USVI. Mr. Flink was elected to the American Society of Landscape Architects Council of Fellows in November 2003. He is the 2006 Distinguished Alumnus for the College of Design at North Carolina State University. Mr. Flink co-authored Greenways. A Guide to Planning, Design and Development, in partnership with The Conservation Fund. This book received a 1994 Merit Award in Communications from the American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) and is cited by the American Planning Association as “the best single reference” on greenway development. Mr. Flink also co-authored Trails for the Twenty-First Century, which received a 2001 Merit Award in Communications from the North Carolina Chapter of ASLA. Mr. Flink has been featured in prominent national and international publications including National Geographic, Triangle Business Journal, Private Clubs, Landscape Architecture, Walking, American Planning, Good Housekeeping, Hemispheres (United Airlines), Buzzworm Environmental Journal, Southern Living and American City County. In 1995, Mr. Flink received an Environmental Excellence Award from the US Department of Transportation, Federal Highway Administration for the Swift Creek Recycled Greenway, the nation’s first greenway built from recycled trash. In 2001, he received a Merit Award from the American Society of Landscape Architects for his involvement with the Grand Canyon Greenway project. Mr. Flink has lectured on the planning and design of greenways at more than 200 national and international conferences since 1986. He graduated cum laude in 1982 from North Carolina State University’s College of Design and later served as an adjunct professor of Landscape Architecture for five years. He currently serves on the College of Design Leaders Council and is chair of the Board of Visitors at North Carolina State University. He served three consecutive terms as chairman of the Board for American Trails, Washington, DC, and five consecutive terms as chair of the Board of Trustees for the East Coast Greenway, a 3,000 mile urban trail that extends from Calis, Maine, to Key West, Florida, along the Atlantic Seaboard of the United States.
Robert Searns
Robert Searns and Associates, Inc.Mr. Searns has a four-decade history of visualizing, planning, and getting trails and greenway projects built. He was project director of Denver’s Platte River and Mary Carter Greenways, both national-award-winning projects. He helped plan the Grand Canyon National Park Greenway, played a key role on the Memphis Wolf River Greenway, and authored the Commerce City, CO, Walk, Bike, Fit Plan. He has written for Planning, Landscape Architecture, LA China, and American Trails magazines and has served as editor-in-chief of Trails and Beyond magazine. He chaired American Trails and was a founder of The World Trails Network as well as being a delegate to the America’s Great Outdoors White House conclave. His current book is Beyond Greenways: The Next Step For City Trails and Walking Routes, published in 2023 by Island Press. This book was chosen as one of THE DIRT’s (American Society of Landscape Architects) 10 best books of 2023. He resides, writes, hikes, and bikes near Denver, Colorado.
AIA Info
AIA Provider Statement:
HalfMoon Education Inc. is a registered provider of AIA-approved continuing education under Provider Number J885. All registered AIA/CES Providers must comply with the AIA Standards for Continuing Education Programs. Any questions or concerns about this provider of learning program may be sent to AIA/CES (cesupport@aia.org or (800) AIA 3837, Option 3).
This learning program is registered with AIA/CES for continuing professional education. As such, it does not include content that may be deemed or construed to be an approval or endorsement by the AIA of any material of construction or any method or manner of handling, using, distributing, or dealing in any material or product.
AIA continuing education credit has been reviewed and approved by AIA/CES. Learners must complete the entire learning program to receive continuing education credit. AIA continuing education Learning Units earned upon completion of this course will be reported to AIA/CES for AIA members. Certificates of Completion for both AIA members and non-AIA members are available upon request.
Course Title: Trails and Greenways Design, Construction, and Management
Delivery Method: Live Online
Course Description: This six-hour course explains the importance of urban trails and greenways and dives deep into their designs, components and elements. Topics of focus include accessibility issues, trail surface options, and trail connectivity. The course will explore methods of incorporating other green infrastructure to provide additional environmental benefits. The course explains the benefits urban trails provide to humans (physical and mental) as well as to the environment (stormwater management, wildlife habitat, etc.)
Learning Objectives:
Learning Objective 1:
Learners will be able to explore the design elements of urban trails, accessibility concerns, and strategies for building trails in difficult places.
Learning Objective 2:
Learners will be able to explain the public health benefits trails and greenways provide and utilize them to also satisfy local transportation demands.
Learning Objective 3:
Learners will be able to describe how trails and greenways can provide additional environmental benefits through the incorporation with other green infrastructure such as constructed wetlands.
Learning Objective 4:
Learners will be able to discuss the advantages and disadvantages of natural surface trails and identify opportunities for trail connectivity.
LUs: 6.0 LU Type: LU|HSWs.
Prerequisites: Experience with landscape design
Advance Preparation: None
Program Level: Intermediate
Course Expiration Date: 01/04/2027
Complaint Resolution Policy:
Complaints regarding this course can be emailed to fchapman@halfmoonseminars.org or by calling (715) 835-5900. A HalfMoon Education representative will respond within 72 hours to resolve the complaint, which will include, but not limited to, access to another CE activity at no or reduced cost or a full or partial refund. Each instance will be resolved on a case-by-case situation.