Financial and real-estate affairs, namely, charitable fund-raising, acquisition and management of land for public on-foot recreational use, and acquisition and management of land for resource protection

Education, namely, providing training services, teaching, conducting programs, instruction, and on-line publication of information in the fields of trails, conservation, and trail conservation; educational and cultural activities, namely, arranging of exhibitions, arranging of seminars, arranging of conferences, arranging of professional workshops, arranging of training courses, educational research, information about education, magazine publishing, maintaining of records of amateur athletes, medical training and teaching, museums, organizing community sporting and cultural events, providing a website featuring sporting information, providing facilities for recreation activities, publication and editing of printed matter, publishing of electronic publications, special event planning, recreational park services; recreational services in the nature of trails and trail conservation; recreational services in the nature of providing and maintaining trails and primitive bridges along the Appalachian National Scenic Trail; recreational services in the nature of providing campsites along the Appalachian National Scenic Trail; education of users and other interested parties, namely, providing instruction in the history and proper use and care of the Appalachian National Scenic Trail; training of volunteer maintainers, land managers, and citizen-scientists in the fields of trails, conservation and trail conservation