Authors & Presenters



posted Jun 5, 2019

Willie Bittner

Willie Bittner has been working in the conservation field, specifically in trailbuilding, design and consulting for 20 years. His experiences include owning and operating his own trailbuilding, design and consulting business - Great Lakes Trailbuilde...


posted Jun 5, 2019

Joshua Osowski

Joshua L. Osowski is a Regional Park Superintendent with the New Jersey State Park Service. Throughout his career in state government, Josh has done much to improve the parks he has worked at, and some of these include, implementing change management...


posted Jun 5, 2019

Peter Dolan

Peter Dolan has served as the New Jersey Program Coordinator at the New York-New Jersey Trail Conference since 2013. After graduating from Bucknell University and Australia’s James Cook University with a degree in field zoology, he held a variety of ...


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 Jun 5, 2019

Ron Steffey

Ron Steffey, prior to recently forming Steffey Trail Connections, was manager of the Armstrong Trail in western Pennsylvania and was involved in all aspects of rail-trail development including the purchasing, railbanking and transforming of over 70 m...


posted Jun 5, 2019

Randy Welsh

Randy Welsh is the Executive Director of the National Wilderness Stewardship Alliance (NWSA). He is recently retired from the US Forest Service after a 36 year career, having served in protected area management with emphasis on wilderness and rivers....


posted Jun 5, 2019

Paul Sanford

Paul Sanford is the National Director of Recreation Policy at The Wilderness Society, where he manages TWS' recreation policy agenda and its programs to connect more people to the outdoors. A native of Cleveland, OH, Paul has a Law degree from the Un...


posted Jun 5, 2019

Randy Rasmussen

Since 2012, Randy has represented Back Country Horsemen of America—a widely respected national, non-profit volunteer service organization, www.bcha.org. He assists BCHA’s 32 state organizations to advance policy initiatives and strengthen partnership...


posted Jun 5, 2019

Deb Caffin

Debbie received her Bachelor’s Degree in Wildlife Ecology from the University of Florida and her Masters of Science in Parks, Recreation and Tourism Management from Clemson University. A native Floridian, she began her career with the State of Florid...


posted Jun 5, 2019

James Stevens

James Stevens is an economic development planner and management consultant that specializes in recreational planning and economic analysis of trails, parks, recreation facilities, and other public and private facilities. He is working with the CDTC o...