Megan Wargo is PCTA’s Director of Land Protection. She oversees a program dedicated to protecting the landscape and trail miles that are still held by private landowners. Megan brings more than a dozen years of experience leading teams and managing landscape-scale conservation projects.
In 1907, English soldier Robert Baden-Powell devised the Boy Scouts motto, “Be Prepared.” The story goes that upon hearing the motto, someone asked the scouting founder the inevitable question: “Prepared for what?”
“Why, for any old thing,” he replied.
Scouting is a program for young people to learn how to ... Read more
We are happy to announce that the Pacific Crest Trail Association recently sold 402 acres at Stevens Pass, Washington — a gateway to some of the most spectacular wilderness in the North Cascades — to the U.S. Forest Service.
The property was set to be developed with vacation ... Read more
What do Pacific Crest Trail hikers, train robbers, President Rutherford B. Hayes and the pacific fisher have in common? They all have traveled through the 1,771-acre Mountcrest Forest in southern Oregon. This privately owned property on Siskiyou Pass connects the Rogue River-Siskiyou National Forest to the Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument.
The ... Read more
The Pacific Crest Trail Association, The Trust for Public Land, the Michigan-California Timber Company and the U.S. Forest Service are spearheading an effort to protect a northern California timber property that includes 17 miles of the Pacific Crest Trail, and we’ve secured funding for the first phase of this important ... Read more
Life is marked by many milestones — first steps, first words, graduations and promotions. Any PCT thru-hiker will tell you that a long-distance hike also can be measured in milestones. For northbound hikers, a major milestone is crossing the state line into Oregon after completing 1,689 miles in California.
Donomore ... Read more
This article first appeared in the PCT Communicator magazine. Please help save Landers Meadow by donating to our Land Protection Fund.
William “Bill” Landers was born in Texas in 1827. At the age of 23, he rounded up his herd of longhorn cattle and headed to California. It took him ... Read more
Many transformational journeys on the Pacific Crest Trail begin with a celebratory photo at the southern terminus. So when the PCTA’s new Land Protection Advisory Council met for the first time in January in San Diego, it made sense for the group to mark the start of our tenure with ... Read more
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