Board of Directors

 

Officers

Jerry Harmon, Chair

Mount Shasta resident, retired Forest Service trail manager, Core Team member

Tina Peluso, Vice-Chair

Fall River Mills resident, representing Fall River Chamber of Commerce, Core Team member

April Gray, Secretary-Treasurer

McCloud resident, retired economic development professional, Core Team member

 
 

Members

  • David Donica

  • Ben Miles

Emeriti

  • Beth Freeman

  • Henry Patterson

  • Joe Studenicka

  • Pat Thomason

  • Mike White

  • Bob Polkinghorn

  • Trey Sherrell

  • Bill Campbell

  • Elizabeth Norton

  • Lorinda Forrest

  • Evalee Nelson

  • Leslie Hopper

 

Core Team

The Core Team of the Great Shasta Rail Trail established the Great Shasta Rail Trail Association (GSRTA) to own and manage the proposed McCloud to Burney rail-trail. Working by consensus, the Core Team did the initial work necessary to acquire and manage the trail - applied for grants, negotiated with the land owner, planned trail management, recruited and managed the year-long efforts of the Planning Team and established relationships with adjoining land owners. The team worked from the group’s establishment in 2009 till the Great Shasta Rail Trail Association was formed in 2013. Core Team members joined the GSRTA Board of Directors, assuring continuity.

As of August 1, 2013 the Core Team consisted of individuals representing five non-profit organizations:

  • April Gray, McCloud Local-First Network

  • Jerry Harmon, McCloud Trail Association, a working group of McCloud Local-First Network

  • Ben Miles, Shasta Land Trust

  • Elizabeth Norton, Volcanic Legacy Community Partnership

  • Tina Peluso, Fall River Chamber of Commerce

 

 PLANNING TEAM

Organization Representative
American Trails Pam Gluck
Backcountry Horsemen of California Dave Wiens & Jim Griffith & Sam Burrows
Bureau of Land Management Bill Kuntz
Burney Chamber of Commerce David Winningham
CalTrans
Fall River Resource Conservation District Pete Johnson
Fall River Valley Chamber of Commerce Sally Moyer
Healthy Shasta Shellisa Moore
Lassen National Forest
McArthur-Burney Falls Interpretative Association
McArthur-Burney Falls Memorial State Park Todd Barto
McCloud Chamber of Commerce Claudette Silvera
McCloud Mercantile Kevin and Darlene Mathis
Members at Large - Burney Andy Urlie
Members at Large - Burney Cindy Dodds
Mt Shasta Trail Association John Schuyler
Pacific Crest Trail Association Ian Nelson & Justin Kooyman
Pedali Eli Jones
Pit River Tribe Darlene Machon & Marissa Fierro & Morning Star Gali & Tracy Eleck & Terry DelBene
Recreation Outdoors Coalition Steve Uhles
Retired Forest Ranger Priscila Franco
Rose Foundation Karla James
Save Burney Falls Joe Studenicka
Shasta County Planning Division Bill Walker
Shasta County Public Health Department Jennifer Gideon & Leslie Beckstrom
Shasta Wheelmen Keith Arnett
Shasta-Trinity National Forest Carolyn Napper
Sierra Club Linda Pankonin
Sierra Club Bruce Waggoner
Siskiyou County Planning Department Greg Plucker
Siskiyou Land Trust Kathleen Hitt
The River Exchange Phil Ditrich
Tracy Tuttle Design Tracy Tuttle
We Ski II Terry Applegate

The Planning Team was formed in 2012 to guide the development of a trail concept plan and related community engagement for the proposed Great Shasta Rail Trail. More than 30 organizations and individuals in the McCloud - Mt. Shasta - Burney - Redding region were invited to participate. All responded in the affirmative. Organized and lead by Barbara Rice of the National Park Service’s Rivers, Trails, and Conservation program, the team met monthly for a year, as well as worked on various focused committees. Their work culminated in the publishing of the “Trail Concept Plan”. Donna Boyd gathered the various reports of the group and wrote the document which was edited by members of the Core Team. The document guides the work of the GSRTA as it continues to develop the trail. It is found at https://www.greatshastarailtrail.org/trail-concept-plan.