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New Master Trail Steward Course USU LAEP Extension developed this course in response to the growing need for skilled volunteers and trail organizations to assist in the stewardship and management of Utah’s trail resources. Extension Specialist Jake Powell has been working with federal and state land managers, the Utah office of Tourism, and Cache County trails planner and LAEP alumnus Dayton Crites to develop the course. The course is intended to provide volunteers, trail organizations, and land managers both a foundational understanding of the values inherent in trail stewardship as well as teach the skills required to plan, build, and maintain sustainable trail networks. The course is being developed as a five module core curriculum beginning with an online introduction course, and four subsequent in-person, field based workshops that cover trail planning and design, trail construction and maintenance, volunteer and project management, and advanced trail construction.
Instead Podcast: A new vision for downtown Pocatello The Extension mission of the LAEP department leads us to communities that want help creating a plan for the future. This episode of the USU Office of Research’s “Instead” podcast is about Pocatello Idaho. You’ll hear where the city is at now and how Professor Todd Johnson and former grad student/ current Pocatello Assistant Planner Jim Anglesey are contributing to Pocatello’s vision. Listen to the podcast by visiting instead.buzzsprout.com and finding episode 15.
LAEP Studio Project Receives Second Statewide Award During the Fall 2018 semester, students in the Department of Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning’s (LAEP) Urban Theory and Design studio, led by Professor Caroline Lavoie, completed a project with the City of Ogden. Their work, which previously received a Utah ASLA Honor Award, recently won a 2019 Utah American Planning Association (APA) Outstanding Award.
