This column appears regularly in the North Star, the magazine of the North Country Trail Association. The answer is simple and quite relaxed. If someone in a local group suggests another one of the members, they will eventually appear in this column. This is YOUR feature. There are no national standards to be met, no high-level politics being played.
Suggestions come from the local level.
If a volunteer is important to you, they are important to us all. Several readers have sent me names of people they would like to see spotlighted, and given time, all those people will be contacted. We will try to include someone from half of the local groups in each issue. If your Chapter or Affiliate doesn't appear in this issue, we'll catch you next time. The Finger Lakes Trail had been conceived in 1961 by Wallace D. Wood, almost 20 years before the North Country Trail was authorized by Congress.