About American Frontiers About American Frontiers: A Public
Lands Journey America's public lands are a treasured part of our
national heritage, representing its grandeur, bountiful promise,
and vast natural resources. All citizens share in the rights and
the responsibilities of seeing that our public lands are cared
for and managed in a way that meets the current and future needs
of the American people. To highlight the beauty, the
accessibility, and the benefits of our public lands, the Public
Lands Interpretive Association (PLIA), an Albuquerque, New
Mexico-based non-profit organization that provides interpretive
and educational resources to the public, mapped out a Canada-to-
Mexico trek exclusively on public lands, called American
Frontiers: A Public Lands Journey. The Journey, or Trek,involved
two groups of travelers: one starting north from the Mexican
border and the second headed south from the Canadian. Their
route lay entirely on public lands, a feat that has never been
accomplished before. The trek b