Steve Anderson

Steve Anderson of Tucson, Arizona, is Principal Planner of Pima County Natural Resources Parks & Recreation Department.

A trails advocate for more than twenty years, he has been involved in successful trails and open space conservation projects at the local, state and national levels. Steve's numerous achievements include:

• Leading the effort to update the Eastern Pima County Trail System Master Plan, to include 1,500 miles of trails and several urban trails parks.

• Led the difficult but successful effort to protect the historic El Paso and Southwestern rail corridor and have it approved by the Tucson City Council for greenway development (2004/05).

• Unanimously elected Chair of the Tucson Parks and Recreation Commission in February 2006, and is leading the effort to promote trails, greenways and open space in the City of Tucson.

• Appointed in 2002 by the U.S. Secretary of the Interior as the first chairperson of the Juan Bautista de Anza National Historic Trail Advisory Council, a group of cultural and natural resource experts from California and Arizona working to protect, develop and enhance the Anza National Historic Trail.

• Has served as a mentor for grad students at the UA School of Landscape Architecture since 2002.

Steve's commitment to trails and open space has been considerable over the past two-plus decades. In fact, Steve was Co-Chair of the 1998 National Trails Symposium. Steve's years of devoted public service make him very worthy of recognition by American Trails.

 

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More winners of this award

2015: Karl Knapp

2013: Roger Sabine

2010: Senator Robert H. Plymale

2004: Tom Gilbert