More than 1, 000 national and local partners have worked with RTCA on projects in the past decade.

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The funds from the NPS's Rivers, Trails and Conservation Assistance (RTCA) program will be used to help out 209 conservation projects.

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One organization gaining support from the RTCA is the Middlebury Area Land Trust which has been working for the past several years to construct a 14-mile trail around the town of Middlebury, Vermont.

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And the nonprofit RTCA Inc.

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