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ing kid-friendly events or incorporating
Kids to Parks Day into already planned
events. Go to www.kidstoparksday.
org to register your Kids to Parks Day
event, add your event to the national online event map and explore the resources provided by the National Park Trust,
including a Kids to Parks Day planning
guide, posters and flyers.
Q Advocates of " rail-trail " parks are
having a tough time swallowing a recent United States Supreme Court decision, which could impact hundreds of
established and proposed trails across
the country. The case of Marvin Brandt
Revocable Trust v. United States saw the
court side with the Wyoming landowner, who challenged the U.S. Forest Service's construction of a bicycle trail on
an abandoned railway line that slices

through his property. By an 8-1 vote, the
justices held that the U.S. government
had no right to Brandt's tract once the
Wyoming and Colorado Railroad formally abandoned the property around
2004. The decision is being lauded as a
victory for property rights activists and
a big blow to rail-trail supporters. Danaya Wright, a property rights professor
at the University of Florida Levin College of Law, estimated that potentially
one third of the country's 270,000 miles
of rail lies on rights-of-way granted under the law at issue in the case. Trails or
highways built on that land are now susceptible to legal challenges.
QCre8Play and Playworld Structures
received accolades for their work building the Casey's Clubhouse playground
at Dove Park in Grapeville, Texas. Mara

Kaplan of Let Kids Play bestowed Casey's Clubhouse with the Best New
Playground of 2013 award, pointing
to its easy accessibility for children of
all ability levels. The design also won
the Committee's Choice Award at the
2013 Texas Recreation and Park Society's North Region Conference. Casey's
Clubhouse includes a real clubhouse,
wheelchair-accessible treehouse, electronic games, 14-foot slide, zip line,
eight swings, rock climbing area, fishing shack and more. Let Kids Play is a
consulting firm that works with various
organizations to enhance play opportunities and inclusive play for children of
all ability levels.
For more news from around the industry, visit www.parksandrecreation.
org/2014/April/Briefly-Noted.

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