Speaker Biographies and Program Descriptions
Rod is a lifelong hiker/backpacker, with treks in New Zealand, Chile, South Korea, and Wrangell Mountains (AK), as well as many mountain states and the BWCAW.
He is a volunteer and current President of the Boundary Waters Advisory Committee (boundarywaterstrails.org) – a grassroots, volunteer organization that advocates for and clears hiking trails in the BWCA Wilderness.
In 2011, the BWCA Wilderness’ 30+ mile Pow Wow Trail (boundarywaterstrails.org/powwow-trail-guide) was utterly destroyed by the Pagami Creek Wildfire. Campsites were obliterated; the trail’s tread burned beyond finding.
Since the fire, BWAC's volunteers have been unrelenting in their tireless efforts to re-establish this historic and scenic trail.
Rod will share a photo-log of before and after the fire, unique ecological aspect of regrowth of the forest after the fire, along with the efforts and successes of re-establishing and hiking the Pow Wow trail.
Saturday, Nov. 19th, 1:00p.m., U of M – Hanson Hall, Room 1-105