Authors & Presenters



posted Feb 8, 2022

Stephen Couchman

Stephen Couchman is Program Director with the Trans Bhutan Trail. He and his wife Catherine Smart joined the team and moved from their home in Ontario, Canada, to Bhutan in September 2019. His previous work includes Program Director for Outward Bound...


posted Sep 1, 2020

Stephen Swazee

Steve Swazee is a retired Navy Captain and former Delta Air Lines 747 pilot who serves as Executive Director of geospatial nonprofit SharedGeo and Chairs the Minnesota Geospatial Advisory Council’s Emergency Preparedness Committee. He is a nationally...


posted Feb 8, 2018

Stephen Wright

Stephen Wright is the great grandnephew of Wilbur and Orville Wright. He is the great grandson of Lorin Wright the second of ve Wright brothers born to the Bishop Milton Wright and Susan Koerner Wright. His great grandfather Lorin lived his entire li...


posted Feb 28, 2018

Steve Buchtel

Steve Buchtel is the Executive Director of Trails for Illinois, a non-profit advocacy organization that’s turning homes into trailheads statewide. Prior to that, Steve was a community bicycle planner and the south suburban coordinator for Active Tran...


posted Apr 25, 2018

Steve Elkinton

In 1989, Steve Elkinton was selected as the program leader for the National Trails System in the National Park Service’s Washington headquarters office. Steve brought to the position a background in landscape architecture, creativity, energy, enthusi...


posted Jul 2, 2021

Steve McClintock

Steve McClintock is one of two the National Directors for AZ on the BCHA National Board. He was President of the East Valley BCH Chapter in Apache Junction (East Mesa), AZ from 2015-2021. He is also Chairman of the BCHA Legacy Fund — an endowment lik...


posted Jun 8, 2020

Steve Messer

Steve has been riding bicycles in the mountains around Los Angeles for 35 years. After more than 20 years riding trails, he saw trail conditions gradually deteriorating through lack of maintenance, and diminishing agency budgets. He began doing volun...


posted Nov 2, 2019

Steve Salisbury

Steve Salisbury is the Washington, D.C.-based government affairs manager for the American Motorcyclist Association, focusing on off-highway issues. Steve is a lifelong motorcyclist and has been active as a hiker, mountain biker and skier. He holds a ...


posted Feb 13, 2018

Steve Sherwood

Dedicated to serving the public for over three decades, Steve held a variety of increasingly responsible positions with the U.S. Forest Service. In his final nine years before retiring, Steve was the Director of Recreation, Heritage, and Wilderness r...


posted Jun 12, 2023

Steve Smith

Steve Smith has worked in the outdoor industry for over thirty years, in the field, in the office, in the boardroom, and in national conference leadership roles, specializing in program leadership, risk management, and staff training. His career ha...