Outdoor Recreation Often Comes at a Cost

Lori Hennings, Metro’s Senior Natural Resources Scientist, alongside landscape architects and planners, is developing a trail builder’s guidebook with practical tools and suggestions to decrease negative impacts on wildlife by improving the siting and design of recreational trails. The guidebook will offer ways to minimize disruption to natural ecosystems and sensitive habitats, reducing disruptions for vulnerable plants and animals. The Foundation is supporting this effort by accepting donations to underwrite the production and distribution of the guidebook.

Trails designed with wildlife in mind ensures everyone can enjoy the outdoors together–including the species that live there.