D1 Standard: Land Conservation
List 3 places in your area where
you see horse activities taking
place. Include where you have your
mounted meetings.
D2 Standard: Land Conservation
Talk with your grandparents,
parents, instructors, and/or older
friends and neighbors about where
they rode when they were young
and how it is different today.
D3 Standard: Land Conservation
Name 3 important rules when
riding across privately-owned land.
Write thank you notes to two
landowners who support your club
and tell them why you appreciate
being able to use their land. If you
ride on public land, write a thankyou note to the manager or contact
person.
C1 Standard: Land Conservation
Name 3 different uses of land on
which you or others ride.
If your region conducts an
Eventing Rally, who owns the land
and what is the total acreage?
Identify one place in your area
previously used for equestrian
activities that is no longer
available.
C2 Standard: Land Conservation
Name the zoning requirements for
the county in which you keep your
horse.
Know what public land is available
to ride on in your county.
HB Standard: Land Conservation
Provide a letter from the DC
certifying the candidate’s
involvement in a local, regional, or
national equine land conservation
issue or project. This letter will
be brought to the test and the
candidate will discuss the project
or issue with Examiners.
H/HA Standard: Land Conservation
Discuss the relationship between
land conservation concerns and
initiatives and equine sports and
horse management. Discussion may
include current or future
challenges from the local area to
the global environment.
Describe appropriate methods to
include land conservation
awareness into an unmounted
curriculum.
Eventing Rally
Location: South Farm
Total Acreage: 110
XC Course Acreage: 40-50
For USEA 3-Day Training Level,
neighboring properties are needed
Websites you should check out:
www.ohiohorsemanscouncil.com
www.pennsylvaniaequinecouncil.com
How to locate public horse trails in your
area:
State Parks:
www.dcnr.state.pa.us/stateparks/recreati
on/equest.aspx
www.dnr.state.oh.us/facilitiesmaps/ohiob
ridletrails/tabid/496/Default.aspx
State Forests:
www.ohiodnr.com/tabid/5157/Default.asp
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www.americantrails.org
www.pa-conservation.org/horse.html
HB Project Ideas
 Join the Pennsylvania Equine Council or Ohio
Horsemans Council and do one of the following:
 Become your pony club’s representative to
the Council, attending local meetings and
reporting back to your DC and the club
 Get involved and help with a fundraiser
 Get involved and help with a trail building
or clean up project
 Organize pony club volunteers for a trail clean
up day
 Create a map of all the public trails in your
area and distribute it to your pony club
members
 If there’s a hiking/biking trail project in your
area (or a Rails-to-Trails project), convince
them to include horses. This may mean getting
signatures and support from interested horse
people, or researching and presenting
information to the trail committee.