Authors & Presenters



posted Jun 5, 2019

Henry Stroud

Henry Stroud is a native of Sebastopol, California and has been interested in trails for as long as he can remember - for his senior project in high school he built a mountain bike trail linking several farms near his house. Henry is currently a Prin...


posted Mar 14, 2018

Herb Hiller

Herb Hiller is a founder of the Florida bicycling and Florida bed-and-breakfast movements. He is the state’s leading voice for ecotourism. He serves the East Coast Greenway Alliance as its regional program consultant for Florida and Georgia....


posted Dec 17, 2019

Holley Groshek

Holley Groshek is the Executive Director of Equine Land Conservation Resource (ELCR) an award winning educational based national nonprofit organization that works with communities, organizations, and individuals around the country to keep land open a...


posted Sep 5, 2018

Holly Larson

Holly Larson has been a trail planner since the early 1990's, and for the last 18 years has been an Outdoor Recreation Planner for the National Park Service's Rivers, Trails, and Conservation Assistance Program. In this position, she has assisted ove...


posted Jan 16, 2018

Hugh Duffy

Mr. Duffy has been practicing landscape architecture with the National Park Service for 30 years, working on visitor centers, park roads, campgrounds, trailheads, bicycle paths, mountain trails, maintenance facilities, entrance signs, and waysides ac...


posted Feb 12, 2018

Ian Brighton

Ian Brighton, National Park Service - Facilities Management Systems Specialist, Rocky Mountain National Park Ian Brighton has worked on trails for over 20 years. He works at Rocky Mountain National Park as a Facilities Management Systems Specialist w...


posted May 18, 2022

Ian Nelson

IAN NELSON, Regional Representative (N.CA & S.OR) for the Pacific Crest Trail Association (PCTA), Medford, OR; his territory covers ~425 miles of the PCNST, traveling through 7 Wildernesses....


posted Jan 24, 2019

India Nielsen


posted May 12, 2021

Ivan Bellotto

Ivan is founder and President of Smart Outdoor and responsible for all executive functions and business development opportunities. Ivan attended St Luke’s in New Cannan CT and then studied at the University of Tampa in Florida. He then got involved i...


posted Feb 28, 2018

J. Scott Groenier, PE

J. Scott Groenier began working for MTDC in November 2003 as a civil engineering project leader for structures. He earned a bachelor’s degree from the University of Wisconsin at Madison and a master’s degree from Montana State University. He started ...