Washington Trails Association
Washington Trails Association mobilizes hikers and everyone who loves the outdoors to explore, steward and champion trails and public lands. Everyone deserves to have opportunities to recreate outdoors and to have safe, welcoming and inclusive experiences on trail. If there’s one thing we know — it’s that trails and access to the outdoors are a must-have. Help us ensure more people have access to the benefits of time spent in nature. Let’s build that future together. We are a collaborative and fun community of passionate individuals, motivating each other to give our best efforts at work. Although we may be tackling some of the biggest problems facing hikers and public lands — we inspire and challenge each other to be fierce, take risks and celebrate when we can. Learn more about careers at WTA at wta.org/our-work/about/job-opportunities-careers.www.wta.org
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Search complete. 7 mentions across 3 episodes found for "Washington Trails Association".
Sep 18, 2026
Jason SantosGUEST
You know, AllTrails is basically geared towards hikers.
Jason SantosGUEST
You know, being up here in the Northwest, we actually have a, we're spoiled with the Washington Trails Association.
Jason SantosGUEST
That is a great resource that I have used.
Jason SantosGUEST
And I know other trail runners up here in the Northwest have used a lot.
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Mathias EichlerHOST
And I think these agents that allow us to talk, give us a new paradigm, which is currently, I think, for lack of a better term, right? People like trying something new because we've been critiqued with this.
Mathias EichlerHOST
Here's another platform that then, you know, within the next 10 years of infinite growth just and shitifies itself by adding ads everywhere or, you know, Stupid subscriptions, right? It becomes sort of a monster that becomes hard to manage.
Mathias EichlerHOST
And I think that's why people are looking to rather than trying to fix what a good platform actually looks like, right? Washington Trails Association is a good platform because it's a very small, defined group of people that care, that probably from a community management never had to worry about anything.
Mathias EichlerHOST
spam and I mean, probably, you know, like, you know, injected spam, but in general, right? I mean, the folks who care are the ones who write reviews there.
RachelHOST
So I think it's a great example.
RachelHOST
And I know in another episode of the podcast, we're hearing from Washington Trails Association about some similar
Zach PoffGUEST
stuff that they're doing.
Zach PoffGUEST
And they're doing some amazing stuff, yes.
Jane C. HuHOST
And then this week, they proposed a budget cut that would cut 64% of trail maintenance.
Jane C. HuHOST
The Washington Trails Association wrote a blog post about this saying, quote, the changes and budget cuts proposed by the White House have the potential to break the U.S. Forest Service.
Jane C. HuHOST
What has been the fallout from this? Like, what are you all seeing and hearing from folks about how this throws things up in the air?
Andy EngelsonGUEST
Well, I think it's essentially the destruction of the U.S. Forest Service.
Jane C. HuHOST
As soon as Trump took office for the second time, his administration also began gutting these environmental protections, as you both were alluding to here, slashing funding.
Jane C. HuHOST
Basically, they're making it harder for these agencies to do their jobs.
Jane C. HuHOST
And they say that they're expecting local and regional organizations like the Washington Trails Association to do that maintenance, especially now that we're seeing that huge cut in trail maintenance funding.
Jane C. HuHOST
What effect does that have on those organizations? Yeah,