Source: Herenga ā Nuku – the Outdoor Access Commission
A new field guide will help community groups and trailmakers tell the stories of their trails.
Many walking tracks, mountain bike paths and outdoor community spaces have important stories behind them that record our history, our connection to nature and the people who cared for the land.
The guide helps the country’s many great trail groups and trusts to build signs that share stories along their local trails.
“Sharing the stories of your community and place is a wonderful way of inviting new audiences to appreciate and care for our special places,” says Mick Abbott, WildLab’s founder.
“For this to be effective, it is important that the stories we tell and the way they are presented are inspiring, inclusive and appealing.”
Herenga ā Nuku and WildLab worked with two local community groups, Ride Coromandel and Tiaki Maniototo to develop the panels that are the Field Guide’s case studies. The two groups have agreed to be the champions, supporters and mentors for other community trail groups that want to develop their own storytelling panels. In the Field Guide they share their new knowledge and expertise, so other groups can apply it and can pass what they learn forward.
The Field Guide outlines the key steps for trailmaker groups to undertake a storytelling panel sign project.
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