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Peter Søren Jensen
Peter Jensen is a trail planner/designer and builder with more than 30 years experience planning and constructing pedestrian trails. He worked for the Appalachian Mountain Club until 1988 when he started his own business in the Berkshires of Massachusetts. In early 2005 he reorganized the business into Peter S. Jensen & Associates, LLC. He served as the Appalachian Trail Conservancy representative to the U. S. Access Board's Regulatory Negotiation Committee on Accessibility Guidelines for Outdoor Developed Areas from 1997 to 1999 where he helped shape regulations for development of new trails, camping facilities, picnic sites, and beaches. He continues planning, design, construction, and consulting on the development of accessible trails. Training crew leaders, youth, volunteers, and agency/non-profit staff is also an important component of his work.
| Jedediah Talbot
Like many of the LLC partners, Jed balances his time between production oriented and education based trail work. When not working with Peter S. Jensen and Associates, Jed is a work skills instructor and crew leader for the SCA as well as the proprietor of Off the Beaten Path, a trail business based in Turner, Maine. His trail work reflects the influences of early stone artisans on the Maine Coast and the rustic timber craft displayed in many of the farms and homesteads there. He rarely travels without his trusty hound Cedar.
| Annie Doran
Annie Doran got hooked on trail building when she worked for the Appalachian Mountain Club beginning in 2001. She splits her time between the LLC and Fairloom, a non-profit she founded that works closely with an impoverished community in Brazil on economic sustainability through cultural arts, entrepreneurship, and education (www.fairloom.org). Annie grew up as a river rat in Westport, MA, but now finds herself drawn to the mountains, especially when there's dirt to dig and rocks to move!
| Erin Amadon
Erin's experiences with trail work began at a young age as a Vermont Youth Conservation Corps member. Since then she has been involved with various trail organizations and clubs in the northeast every year, working most recently as a Maine Conservation Corps Crew leader and work skills instructor for MCC and SCA. A native of New Hampshire and current Maine resident, Erin generally stays busy working on technical rockwork projects, teaching trail skills, working in her organic garden and yearning to go caving.
| Willie Bittner
Willie Bittner, a founding partner in Peter S. Jensen and Associates, LLC, hails from the small town of Trempealeau,
Wisconsin where he first found a love for the outdoors and a deep interest in its preservation. Willie has worked to ensure this preservation through positions ranging from corps member to coordinator in various conservation crews throughout the United States where he has constantly challenged himself to develop more efficient trail building methods and ways to teach these methods. Willie is an avid volunteer in his community and is always striving to grow in depth and in scope of character.
| Samuel M. Roberts
Sam was an employee of Open Space Management before transitioning to the LLC in 2005. A background in construction has given Sam the skills to operate machinery on accessible trail projects while his seasons with the National Park Service and Forest Service have instilled a love of backcountry work. Initially introduced to trail work as a volunteer, Sammo was immediately hooked and now often finds himself leading volunteers on trails. Although his home base in is Utah, Sam's endeavors have taken him west to Washington, south to Florida, and north to Maine.
| Ellen K. Jensen
Ellen, a chef spending many years working on land and sea around the world and always concerned for the environment and health of those around her. Working with her brother Peter on several trail projects through the years decided to join him in his trail building quest as crew nutrition coordinator/trail builder. Creating nutritious meals and working in the field on all aspects of trail construction be it hiking or accessible trails.
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