The qualified charitable distribution (QCD) is a special provision allowing donors to exclude from taxable income (and count toward their required minimum distribution) certain transfers of Individual Retirement Account (IRA) assets that are made directly to public charities.
Internal Revenue Service rules allow taxpayers age 70½ or older to transfer ... Read more
The push is on to pass bills in Congress that will provide full and permanent funding for the federal Land and Water Conservation Fund.
In the House, supporters of H.R. 3195 are intently pressing their leadership to hold a vote on the bill. It has passed out of committee and ... Read more
By Michelle “Corporate” Nacouzi
This September, my boyfriend Andrew and I flew from New York City to Seattle to join a group of PCTA volunteers for a week of backcountry trail maintenance work in the Goat Rocks Wilderness. It was absolutely incredible! Andrew has a background building mountain bike trails ... Read more
Over the years, I’ve written a lot about the Land and Water Conservation Fund (LWCF). I’ve asked you to get involved by letting your senators and elected representatives in Congress know how important this program is to the Pacific Crest Trail and public lands and how much these amazing places ... Read more
September means we’re getting hints of crisp autumn air in Sacramento. Up the hill toward Lake Tahoe, we’ve had more than a few snow flurries in the Sierra. As the seasons change, so does the work volunteers tackle along the PCT.
Before winter’s here in full force, let’s look at ... Read more
(Reprinted from the summer 2019 issue of the PCT Communicator magazine.)
In April 2018, PCTA Land Protection Director Megan Wargo told me about a property that had just come on the market that included 1.2 miles of the Pacific Crest Trail.
The Picayune Lake property, as it has come to ... Read more
The new alignment of a 6.5-mile stretch of the Pacific Crest Trail in northern California’s Sierra Buttes has been years in the making. We’ve celebrated many milestones, notably, opening a newly constructed 3.9 miles of trail that passes by the gorgeous Tamarack Lakes in 2017.
This year, PCTA staff members, ... Read more
Photos by Aaron Peabody, Karen Wang, Linda Rostad, and Patrick Bangle. Words by Mila Benson, PCTA Volunteer Outreach Intern.
All along the trail, the Pacific Crest Trail Association hosts Trail Skills College (TSC) events. These are premier trail maintenance classes that are free and open to the public. In designing ... Read more
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