Staff
Steve Cleary
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Alaska Trails Executive Director Steve Cleary is a graduate of St. John's University in Collegeville MN. He received a bachelor's degree in Political Science in 1993. Steve then volunteered as a teacher for three years, teaching pre-school in Chicago for a year and high school in Belize for two years. He was then awarded a Fulbright Scholarship to study paper recycling and economics in Panama. Steve first came to Alaska by bicycle from Minnesota in 1998. He worked for the Anchorage Daily News, the Red Cross and as a Spanish tutor. Steve was the development director at the Alaska Public Interest Research Group (AkPIRG) from 2000 to 2003. In 2003, he took over as Executive Director of AkPIRG, where he stayed until his son Liam was born in 2008. Since October of 2008, Steve has been a full-time stay-at-home dad. In addition, he has been able to do some contract work for the National Wildlife Federation and for AkPIRG, including helping push through the Fire Island wind project.
Steve and his family are avid bikers, hikers and skiers and love to enjoy Alaska's trails. He is excited to put his non-profit skills to work for Alaska Trails to continue to promote and maintain Alaska's world-renowned trails. |
Board of Directors
Cristin Roehl
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Cristin is a lifelong Alaskan and active outdoors person. She enjoys cross country skiing, snow machining, riding ATVs, camping, fishing, hunting as well as many other outdoor activities. Cristin and her partner Sean live in Soldotna, AK and are raising their four children. She is a successful small business owner as well as the vice president of Snomads, Inc., a Homer Alaska based snow machine club. She has been a member of Snomads, Inc. since 2007 and has been on the board of directors, as a board member from 2012-2013 and as the vice president from 2013 to present. Snomads, Inc. works to develop and rehabilitate existing trails and trailheads for the benefit of all back country users. We finance and implement the marking of local trails using color coded reflective markers. We host and actively participate in educational programs in the schools promoting snow machine and cold weather safety. We also finance and maintain an active, trained search and rescue team (SAR) in Homer and Anchor Point working on call through the Alaska State Troopers.
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Andy Schroeder
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Andy has dedicated his career to conservation of Alaska's natural resources. Originally from the Little Miami watershed of Ohio, he earned a bachelor of science from the U.S. Coast Guard Academy, a 200-ton Captain's license and served two tours in the Coast Guard. Andy left the service in 2005 to start a small business and make Kodiak his permanent home. He founded the nonprofit Island Trails Network in 2006 and in 2010 became its full-time executive director. Andy and his wife Betsy have a 4-year old son Haakon and a 2-year old daughter, Dory.
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Chris Beck
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Chris is a land use planner with more than 30 years of experience, specializing in tourism and recreation, land use, economic development, strategic planning, site planning and public participation. He first came to Alaska in 1979 where he worked with the Alaska Department of Natural Resources and helped craft the agency's regional land planning process. After running his own independent consulting business and earning master's degrees in City Planning and in Landscape Architecture from UC Berkeley, he cofounded Agnew::Beck in 2002. Chris has worked on tourism, recreation and community planning issues around Alaska and the western U.S., developing successful projects ranging from resorts in the High Sierras, to trails and park plans in communities around Alaska. Chris's overarching skill is the ability to forge shared goals and actions from diverse viewpoints, for example, finding the balance point between what a community wants and what it can afford, or between the desire to grow and the desire to protect what is special about a particular town or trail or bay. When not at work, Chris often persuades himself to get off the couch, and is an enthusiastic crosscountry and backcountry skier, hiker and mountain biker.
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Brian Burnett
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I am a life-long Alaskan and outdoors enthusiast. I ski, bike, run and recreate year round on the trails in Alaska. I grew up as a competitive alpine ski racer. That passion led me to a position with the U.S. Ski Team and I was able to travel the world as a ski technician with the men's speed teams. I have been to some of the most impressive alpine zones in the world and been able to recreate on their trails. I am currently the Mountain Services Manager at Alyeska Ski Resort. This position allows me to manage and organize numerous trails projects on the mountain and also the events that take place on our trails networks. My outdoor pursuits led to trail advocacy at the community level in the early 2,000's as I began to attend the Girdwood Trails Committee monthly meetings. I have searched out meetings and trails projects over the years that put me in contact and collaboration with like-minded trail advocates
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Erik Boraas
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Erik is a life long Alaskan, born and raised in Soldotna. He has worked as a wilderness ranger, fisherman, and archeologist. He has traveled extensively around the world and adventured all over Alaska. He settled in Juneau and spent a season as the field coordinator for Trail Mix, Inc., a trail building non-profit.He acceded to executive director in 2011.
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Kristine Bunnell
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Kristine started her trails career as the Program Manager for the Clark County Regional Trails Program in 1999, and led the charge to establish a multi-million dollar, region-wide, multi-modal trail system in Southern Nevada. She was enthusiastically assisted by a variety of trail-loving and using partners. She helped found the Southern Nevada Regional Trails Partnership bringing together off-roaders, equestrians, mountain bikers, hikers and climbers as advocates for the trail program. The Logandale Trail System, Flamingo Arroyo Trail, and Sunrise Trailhead are notable projects.With a move to Northern Nevada in 2003, she led trail projects in Lake Tahoe and Reno, working closesly with the Truckee Meadows Trail Association, and the Nevada Land Conservancy. She completed the Whites Creek Trail, Mt. Rose Trail, and Mt. Rose Scenic Byway project while there.
Kristine moved to Anchorage to be close to her Alaska family in 2011. Anything outdoors winter and summer is on the to-do list, including volunteering for the Iditarod. Sharing trails, wildlife, and Alaska's beauty with others is a life-long dream. |
Tim George
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Born north of Philadelphia and went to college at Unity College in Maine. Got a bachelors degree in park management and forestry. I started my trail career with the Southwest Conservation Corps, then worked for the Colorado Fourteeners Initiative for a couple seasons before spending a decade with the NPS and now the USFS. Been doing trail work for 15 years in many national parks, monuments and national forests in Maine, Colorado, New Mexico, Utah, Arizona, California and now Alaska for the last couple of years. I have a real passion for trail work and quite honestly I don't really know how to do anything else or want to. I specialize in trail design/layout, maintenance of trails, both dry and wet stone masonry, use of mechanized equipment and lots of other cool stuff. One of my major skills is being a certified blaster in the use of explosives for building trail tread, removal of hazard trees and boulders, mine closures and whatever else they can be used for. I live in Moose Pass and when I have time off, I head to my piece of property in McCarthy.
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