Ep. 121 - Melanie Vining - Executive Director, Idaho Trails Association

Backcountry Hunters & Anglers Podcast & Blast with Hal Herring

Zack Williams

Outdoors, Wilderness, Sports, Fishing, Outdoor, Hunting, Sports & Recreation

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🗓️ 21 December 2021

⏱️ 110 minutes

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Ep. 121: Melanie Vining - Executive Director, Idaho Trails Association

For a measure of sweat equity, an entire world of adventure awaits anyone who wants to work on American public lands. In today’s podcast, Hal catches up with Melanie Vining, an Idaho elk hunter, mom and mule packer who is the ramrod for the Idaho Trails Association, one of the major outfits bringing together volunteers with the tools, knowledge and support to get the work done on our BLM and national forest backcountry trails. This is a conversation about one of the most successful public land volunteer groups anywhere. It’s about how the work gets done, why we do it, and the fun and friendships that are the essence of the experience.

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0:00.0	Hello everybody, backcountry hunters and
0:02.3	language podcast in Blast, I'm Hal Herring.
0:05.0	I wanted to drop in an introduction today's podcast
0:09.1	with Melanie Mining of the Idaho Trails Association
0:12.4	because there's a couple of stuff we got lost in talking. Mining of the Idaho Trails Association,
0:12.7	because there was a couple of stuff we got lost in talking
0:15.2	and missed a couple of things that I wanted to have in the podcast.
0:20.0	I hope you'll enjoy this one.
0:21.6	It's an opportunity for people all across America to work on our public lands
0:26.6	and be supported by some folks who already have the skills and the knowledge of the terrain. So that I want to get in there was a
0:33.7	important podcast and on the two things that we left out that I wanted to get in
0:39.2	there was if you go to Idaho Trails Association dot org and find
0:45.0	forward slash trail reporter you can actually interact with Idaho
0:50.6	Trails Association and recommend places that are impassable or need work or washing
0:57.2	out, any kind of trail problems across the state of Idaho, you can interact with the site
1:02.2	and get those things on record to be fixed by
1:05.6	yourself and Idaho Trails Association or by other crews from Idaho Trails
1:10.2	Association. It's an important tool that I thought was pretty unique.
1:16.7	The other thing is that Melanie Vining wanted me to make sure that we understood that Idaho Trails Association is one of
1:27.0	many organizations doing this and those organizations include not limited to, but Idaho Conservation Corps, Student Conservation Association of the Salma, out of the Salma, Idaho Area, the Montana Conservation Corps,
1:43.0	backcountry horseman of Idaho and Selway, Bitterroot,
1:46.3	Frank Church Foundation.
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