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Why The Trail Mapping Project? For years now, equestrian trails have been under assault by developers, environmentalists, individuals and government agencies. Many times, the claims are that "We did not know that trails existed in an area," so the trails get destroyed by developers, get neglected by various agencies who would otherwise help maintain them or get closed by individuals worried about litigation. Therefore, the aim of this project is to document the fact that trails do exist and try to establish some sort of baseline to that fact that they may have been there for some time, thus making it possible to protect them through proscriptive rights easements included into management plans.
There are those who think that documenting trails is a bad thing because they have the off base notion that what is not known cannot be lost. Well quite frankly, this does not work. If the knowledge is restricted to only a few, then it is already lost. Also, much like things on the Internet, "Security through obscurity" is no real security at all.
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