Buckeye Trail Association Director to be Keynote Speaker at Annual Meeting
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January 4, 2019Andrew Bashaw, Executive Director of the Buckeye Trail Association, will be the Keynote Speaker at the fourth Annual Meeting of the Muskingum Watershed Conservancy Foundation. The event will be held on Friday, January 11, 2019 at the Kent State University at Tuscarawas Performing Arts Center in New Philadelphia.
Bashaw became the Executive Director of the Buckeye Trail Association in 2010 after being the North Country Trail Association’s Regional Trail Coordinator for Ohio and Pennsylvania. Previously, he had spent several years as an AmeriCorps Vista focused on sustainable forestry in Appalachian Ohio and with the Student Conservation Association at the Blue Ridge Parkway, Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge, and National Park Service NE Regional Office. He earned a BS in environmental geography from Ohio University and an MS in geography from Oklahoma State University and is also currently an Adjunct Instructor of sustainable trail design at Hocking College. He has helped build trail in the Wicklow Mountains of Ireland, assessed trail in El Parque Nacional La Tigra in Honduras, and studied the development of the Ozark Highland Trail through designated Wilderness areas in Arkansas. Andrew’s work, such as supporting the growth of the Ohio Trails Partnership and the development of the Ohio Legislative Trails Caucus, earned him an Outstanding Trail Leader award at the national meeting of American Trails in 2017. His experience has been focused on the use of trails to protect land, connect people to the landscape and communities to each other. Andrew lives and hikes in the Little Cities of Black Diamonds region in southeast Ohio with wife Claudia and their daughter Adelaide.
For more information on the Annual Meeting, please contact Nick Lautzenheiser toll-free at 877-363-8500.
