Health and Economic Benefits of Trails Discussed at Vision Hudson Valley Conference
A group of field experts, nonprofit leaders, and government officials discussed the health and economic benefits of trails at an annual conference by Vision Hudson Valley on June 2.
Garnet Health Foundation President Bill Dauster, an avid outdoorsman, opened the health panel discussion by citing his personal observation.
“I wonder all the time when I get to a summit of a mountain why I feel completely elated … and then when I sit in the observer cabin on top of Balsam Lake Mountain, and I watched countless people all day long come sweaty, breathing, hungry, and sometimes not looking good, and they are all smiling and elated,” Dauster said. “I believe there [are] real clinic reasons for that.”…