{"id":6665,"date":"2020-11-29T08:56:40","date_gmt":"2020-11-29T15:56:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/?p=6665"},"modified":"2025-04-26T16:31:18","modified_gmt":"2025-04-26T22:31:18","slug":"announcing-itas-new-executive-director","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/?p=6665","title":{"rendered":"Announcing ITA’s New Executive Director!"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Board of Directors is excited to announce that Melanie Vining has accepted the position as ITA\u2019s new Executive Director! Melanie is a backcountry enthusiast with a strong passion for hiking, Idaho\u2019s public lands, and helping to keep our trails open. She lives in Council with her husband Dave and two sons\u00a0Wyatt and Wade. \u00a0Her diverse background includes serving as a high school teacher, working for the Forest Service early on as a smokejumper and later as a zone hydrologist. She was instrumental in creating the Council High School Youth Crew, teaching youth life skills while helping assist the forest on projects. Melanie has also served on several Boards of non-profits. \u00a0She began working with ITA in 2019 as a crew leader for our first Youth Trail Crew trip and has been an active ITA volunteer since then. Melanie brings a solid set of leadership skills to the job and the Board and Staff are looking forward to working with her starting in early January. Welcome to the ITA family, Melanie!<\/p>\n

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\nThree Blaze Trail<\/strong>
\nDecember 3, 6pm PST\/\u00a07pm MST
\nJoin the Payette National Forest Heritage Program for a virtual presentation on the Three Blaze Trail. Built in 1902 by homesteaders and horsemen, the trail delivered\u00a0miners\u00a0to the town of Roosevelt and the Thunder Mountain mines. \u00a0ITA volunteers from the Three Blaze Trail survey project will also share stories and photos from their recent survey trip. Learn\u00a0more about\u00a0this historic trail by\u00a0signing up here.<\/a><\/p>\n

Jeff Halligan Virtual Retirement Party<\/strong>
\nDecember 17, 6pm PST\/ 7pm MST
\nJoin us for an evening\u00a0of celebrating Executive\u00a0Director Jeff Halligan and sending him off into a happy retirement. Sign up\u00a0to join this Zoom event\u00a0here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Board of Directors is excited to announce that Melanie Vining has accepted the position as ITA\u2019s new Executive Director! Melanie is a backcountry enthusiast with a strong passion for hiking, Idaho\u2019s public lands, and helping to keep our trails open. She lives in Council with her husband Dave and two sons\u00a0Wyatt and Wade. \u00a0Her […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-around-the-campfire"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6665","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6665"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6665\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6669,"href":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6665\/revisions\/6669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}