The Trails Safe Passing Plan (TSPP) Stop! Speak and Stand Back educational resource has been published by the Equine Land Conservation Resource (ELCR) in Lexington, Kentucky. ELCR is working with the Trails are Common Ground (TaCG) campaign.
The Trails Safe Passing Plan (TSPP) STOP! SPEAK and STAND BACK is a safety action plan to educate on what to do when encountering people with horses on the trails. It is a safety action plan for ALL trail users on what to do when encountering people with horses on the trails The Trails Safe Passing Plan (TSPP) Stop! Speak and Stand Back allows you to safely share the trails and is helpful for all trail users, including horses, dogs and children.
Our premier webinar, on March 31, 2023, AMERICAN TRAILS signed up over 400 land management teams, trail user groups, civil engineers, architects, grant and contract managers, economic development leaders, traffic safety engineers, marketing managers, park operation supervisors, park rangers, volunteer board members and naturalists, forestry technicians, destination development managers and state trail coordinators. All professionals and non-profit leaders looking for KNOWLEDGE and ANSWERS for safer multi-use, and horse-hiker trail programs.
We are asking trail users, student groups, equine clubs, trail associations, and land management teams that wish to use our Trail Sign to fill out the Trail Sign Registration Form to help us keep track of the use of the Trails Safe Passing Plan (TSPP) and to give permission to use the copyrighted trail sign.
The webinar provides information about yielding on trails, trail communication, and facts about horses to help all trail users and land management teams understand the importance of having a trails safe passing plan in place at trailheads and kiosks.
Trails are Common Ground * and we all have the opportunity to help make the trails enjoyable and safe for everyone. Our goal is to show how learning and performing these actions can inform trail users on what to do when meeting horses on the trail.
Library of Materials
Videos
Stop, Speak, Smile: The Key to Sharing the Trails Safely
The film is brought to you by Central Oregon Chapter of Oregon Equestrian Trails and a coalition of partners:
Central Oregon Trail Alliance, East Cascades Chapter of Back Country, Horsemen of Oregon, Sister Trails
Alliance, Deschutes Trails Coalition and filmmaker Wahoo Films.
RFVHC Trail Sign Presentation
Transcript of Presentation
Presented by Karin Reid Offield, RFVHC President
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