Pauline Seales guest on Jan 27, 2022 was Emma Ussat,
trails program manager for Santa Cruz Mountains Trail Stewardship. She’s a passionate community-builder and fundraiser with over 8 years of leadership experience in the non-profit sector.
They discussed ongoing new trail construction at Cotoni-Coast Dairies Unit of the California Coastal National Monument (managed by the Bureau of Land Management), trail maintenance on Emma McCrary Trail in Pogonip Open Space Preserve (managed by the City of Santa Cruz), and potential upcoming trail projects at San Vicente Redwoods and Big Basin State Park.
Santa Cruz Mountains Trail Stewardship (SCMTS) now employs over a dozen full-time employees and growing. The SCMTS team not only builds, maintains, and upgrades local trails but also educates users on proper trail etiquette. This year the nonprofit is celebrating its 25th anniversary and is looking forward to continuing its mission of improving the resilience of local trails so that everyone can enjoy and protect the beauty of the Santa Cruz Mountains.
Join SCMTS in building, restoring, and maintaining over 60 miles of trails in the next three years by supporting their fundraising campaign, Timeless Trails, today!
Join SCMTS in building, restoring, and maintaining over 60 miles of trails in the next three years by supporting their fundraising campaign, Timeless Trails, today!
Good News Santa Cruz is a show hosted by a collective of women inspired by the peace and social justice mission of WILPF (Women's International League for Peace and Freedom). There's 104 years of history behind this show–years of women crossing many nations and facing all kinds of odds to make a world that works better for us all. And this work is still going on, as powerful as ever. Our show brings that story home, here and now, in Santa Cruz, and in real time. We air interviews with local people who are finding real ways out of the mess we're in – with stories, ideas, successes and strategies connecting across issues to achieve systems change. Team Members include: Randa Solick – Educator and Social Justice Activist; Pauline Seales – Educator and climate activist; Nancy Glock-Grueneich – Educator and systems change visionary; Debora Bone – Medical Professional and Social Justice Activist; Christine Barrington – Therapist and Societal Transformation Activist; David Sweet – WILPF member, Retired History Professor and Social Justice Activist; Keisha Frost – CEO, United Way Santa Cruz County.
Gypsy Scholar's Orphic Essay-with-Soundtrack for Christmas entitled: “The Winter Solstice & Yuletide Season & the Pagan Origins of Christmas: Reclaiming ...