Let us begin with wishing all of you a happy holiday season. We doubt that any of us will forget 2010, as hard as we may try! Here hoping for a productive, peaceful, prosperous 2011.

We have recently posted a new podcast and two PowerPoints to our Podcast and Presentation page. The podcast is a recording of Ted’s October talk to a group gathered in Beckley, West Virginia. The conference, titled Reaching the Summit: Balancing Commerce and Nature in the New River Gorge Region, is one of the Conservation Fund’s Balancing Nature and Commerce workshops where Ted periodically speaks. We have posted Ted’s PowerPoint from that conference as well.

The PA Wilds continues to be in the news. The latest newsletter from the PA Wilds Resource Center is now available here.

Fermata’s Great American Trails has now created its third SmartTrail – the Tidal Delaware River Water Trail. The SmartTrail app is available for the iPhone, Android, and Blackberry platforms. More detailed information is available on the Great American Trails page in this blog.