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The Parks & Trails Council of Minnesota (PTCM) is seeking an Executive Director with a passion for Minnesota's natural spaces who will be responsible for leadership, development, and management of all PTCM programs and activities.

By Linda Picone

Maybe it’s as simple as the fact that the Midwest was laced with rail lines, crucial as transportation for people and products from community to community and to the rest of the country. When automobiles took over the central transportation role, many of those smaller rail lines shut down and, in the mid-1960s, as the rails themselves were removed, the idea of rails to trails was born.