DAILY BULLDOG • May 21, 2020
“Trails contribute to the nature-based tourism economy of the region,” said Betsy Squibb, a long-time member of the High Peaks Alliance. The Alliance, a local non-profit volunteer organization that has spent the last 13 years dedicated to keeping public access to the region, successfully submitted a request to the Franklin County Economic Development Council for a $64,000 TIF grant to support the trail maintenance projects of five clubs in the unorganized townships of the region. The Alliance also successfully submitted a $17,750 grant to the Council that involved the Center for Community GIS in Farmington transforming GIS data the clubs' collected into a series of planning maps as the basis for trail relocation, continual maintenance and future club maps.