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FEDERATION OF WESTERN OUTDOOR CLUBS







No. 4

TRAIL USER INFORMATION SYSTEM
            




A computerized Trail User Information System (TUIS) has been developed by the University of Washington in cooperation with the U.S. Forest Service, the National Park Service, the Washington State Interagency for Outdoor Recreation, and interested volunteers.  TUIS contains 70-80 data elements per trail for approximately 600 trails in two National Forests and three National Parks in the Puget Sound area, and programming is completed for batch operation of annually updated data base.  TUIS will be extremely valuable in the next few years for:


1.   Replacing the outmoded trail inventory used by the Forest Service,


2.   Assisting the National Park Service in developing trail management plans,


3.   Satisfying the demand for trail information from the owners of personal home computers,


4.   Providing the administrative mechanism to monitor and promote volunteer participation in the stewardship of recreational trail resources, and


5.   Complimenting the services of retail recreation equipment establishments by providing customers with current trail information.


Therefore, the Federation of Western Outdoor Clubs encourages the U.S. Forest Service and the National Park Service to undertake the further development of the Trail User Information System, which would enable trail users to more readily obtain information about recreation trail opportunities.  In this way areas throughout the United States could use the same design concept as a base for a trial inventory for both users and managers.  Thus each areas system could have the potential for eventually becoming a component in a nationwide overall system.


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