American Trails Executive Committee

John Favro, Chair, TrailsGuy, LLC Trails Consulting Jenny Rigby, Vice-Chair, The Acorn Group Marianne Fowler, 2nd Vice-Chair, Rails-to-Trails Conservancy

Terry Hanson, Treasurer, Terry Hanson Trails Consulting Amy Camp, Secretary, Community Tourism Professional  Professional Trailbuilders Association

Scott Linnenburger,  Kay-Linn Enterprises Directors

Jan Hancock, Equestrian Representative Terry Whaley, Ozark Greenways

Advisory Committee

Steve Anderson, Pima County (AZ) Parks & Rec. Dept. Peter Axelson, 

Roger Bell, Trails Consultant Nathan Caldwell, U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service  John R. Collins, Jr., PhD, University of North Texas Christopher Douwes, Rec. Trails Program Mgr., FHWA  Steve Elkinton, Retired, National Park Service Mylon Filkins, DVM, Back Country Horsemen of America Chuck Flink,  Erik Larsen, President, Rec-Creation, LLC Kay Lloyd, Past Chair, American Trails Board Stuart Macdonald, Nat’l Assn. State Trail Administrators Roger Moore, Associate Professor, NC State University Gil Penalosa, 8-80 Cities Deb Salt, Bureau of Land Management Rodger Schmitt, Retired, Bureau of Land Management Michael Schuett, Assistant Professor, Texas A & M

Bob Searns,  Jonathan Stephens, Trails Program Mgr., US Forest Service Joe Taylor, Quad Cities Convention & Visitors Bureau

Karen Umphress, NOHVCC Jim Wood, FL Department of Transportation

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Thanking Pam Gluck for her leadership A

merican Trails is going through a major change. After serving for over 19 years as American Trails’ Executive Director, Pam Gluck is moving on to the

next chapter of her life. Please join our board, staff, and partners in thanking Pam and wishing her all the best.

Pam has shepherded our organization from a small advocacy group to a much larger organization hosting the premier international trails confer- ence; managing one of the world’s largest online resources for trails; and  - port the trails community moving forward. — John Favro, Chair, American Trails

You have played such an immensely important role in putting trails on the map through your very hard work at American Trails and through the international symposium, which leads the way and stands out as an incredible and important event for trails globally. Knowing you as a dedi- cated and passionate trails advocate has inspired us with the work we are making happen at the World Trails Network. Thank you and may your onward walk be no less inspiring. — Galeo Saintz, Chair, World Trails Network Committee

 of enthusiastic and amazing work to improve the quality of life of all. Trails are the means; the end has always been creating healthy communi- ties where all people will live happier.

— Gil Penalosa, Founder & Chair of the Board, 8 80 Cities

As the heart and soul behind American Trails, your skill and personal guidance have shaped it as an organization and helped it become the  - ment without your wisdom and knowledge. - grams, National Park Service

Needless to say we are all proud, as should you be, of the accomplish- ments of your two decades of service building Amerian Trails into the  you the best on your new journeys and adventures to come. — Bob Searns, The Greenway Team, Inc., and American Trails Chair Emeritus

You have my support, my thanks and my gratitude for all that you have done to make American Trails so successful. You have been the face of American Trails for so long it will take all of us some time to adjust. We know that this does not mean goodbye! 

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