American Hiking Society is looking for a few good young trail stewards for National Trails Day half a million for starters. That's how many new trail volunteers American Hiking says will be needed over the next decade to take care of America's trails and greenways.To invite today's youth to take on the roles of trail stewards of the New Millennium, American Hiking Society is turning to the trail clubs, agencies and businesses that each June host more than a thousand National Trails Day events.

Now in its eighth year, National Trails Day is an annual nationwide day of public events, all locally planned and organized, scheduled this year for June 3. It is recognized as America's largest celebration of the outdoors. For 2000, National Trails Day is ringing in the new century by celebrating Millennium Trails, an initiative spearheaded by the U.S. Department of Transportation and others to urge trail conservationists to reach for the future. For American Hiking Society, imagining the future means inviting today's young people to become leaders.In Celebrating Millennium Trails by reaching out to today's youth, American Hiking is taking the country one step closer to reaching the vision of Trails for All Americans. Published in 1990 with the support of the National Park Service and other trail managing agencies, Trails for All Americans proposes the creation of a nationwide network of trils and greenways. It has been endorsed by most national, regional and local trail organizations. The first National Trails Day was introduced in 1993 to bring attention to the idea.

"National Trails Day 2000 is a wonderful venue to engage young people in the future," said AHS President David Lillard. "By inviting school groups, church youth groups, scout troops, and youth volunteer organizations to help plan NTD events, organizers have the opportunity to excite young people about the potential of America's trails."

American Hiking Society is national recreation-based conservation organizations serving hikers and the grassroots organizations that plan, develop, maintain and protect hiking trail-lands.

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