Authors & Presenters



posted Feb 16, 2018

Peter Axelson

Peter is owner of Beneficial Designs, which designs beyond the norm to meet the needs of all people and working towards universal access through research, design, and education. Peter is a national and international leader in Universal Design. He is ...


posted May 18, 2021

Peter Bonsall

Peter Bonsall is the National Trails Program Specialist for the National Park Service. He provides technical assistance to the National Scenic and Historic Trails and coordinates the National Recreation Trail program for the Department of the Interio...


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 Dec 29, 2017

Peter S. Jensen

Peter S. Jensen is a trail planner/builder with more than 45 years experience planning and constructing pedestrian trails throughout the northeastern United States. His company has planned and built many miles of trail through open and forested terra...


posted Jul 2, 2021

Phil Hough

Phil Hough is Executive Director of the Friends of Scotchman Peaks Wilderness. He is a founding board member of the Idaho Trails Association and now serves on their advisory board. He is a past president of the American Long Distance Hikers West Asso...


posted Aug 28, 2023

Phil Penny

At 10 years old, I walked down a trail with my mom, and it changed the way I felt and saw the world around me. Soon after I found cycling and was able to keep that sense of breaking free and exploration as I moved along the curvature of the land. Tra...


posted Nov 13, 2020

Philip Kresge

Philip Kresge has been with NRMCA since October 2004. As Senior Vice President of NRMCA’s Local Paving Division, Phil works with state, regional and local promotion partners to help deliver concrete parking and street paving projects by supporting pr...


posted Aug 3, 2018

Phyllis Ralley

Phyllis became involved with the Arizona Trail Association in 1994 but in 1990, after completing several annual all-women long distance trail rides and finding it increasingly difficult to plan with no corridor, she read the first article about the T...


posted Jul 15, 2021

Phyllis Turner

Phyllis is a retired RN who was born in the Okanagan and has returned there following my husband, Tom’s, retirement. They are active community members and volunteer for a number of organizations. They first began supporting the Okanagan Rail Trail wh...