Megan is PCTA's CEO. Her career includes more than 20 years in conservation, landscape protection, project management and team leadership roles. She has been with the PCTA since 2015, when she was hired as the organization’s first Director of Land Protection.
As we face financial and operational challenges because of uncertainty around federal funding for the Pacific Crest Trail (PCT), I want to be transparent with our community about the impact this may have on our mission. The U.S. Forest Service has let us know that our future federal grant funding ... Read more
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
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
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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