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Forest Service

NSAA BIDS FAREWELL & APPRECIATION No resort is quite like yours

TO FOREST SERVICE RECREATION DIRECTOR

BY GERALDINE LINK, NSAA DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC POLICY

THE US FOREST SERVICE national director of recreation, Joe
Meade, retired from the agency on July 3 after 40 years of
service. Meade has made a significantly positive impact on
the ski industry/US Forest Service partnership. It was so sig-
nificant, in fact, that NSAA recognized him back in 2015
with a Partnership Award, recognizing his commitment to
the common goal of preserving the environment to help
ensure the future of snowsports.
While many organizations have given Meade awards
and recognition this year to mark the end of his tenure at the
Forest Service, we did it two years ago because we did not
want to wait to recognize him! His actions and contributions
in his first year and half as recreation director compelled the
industry to tell him right out of the gates how much he was
admired as our partner in recreation.
“Joe is so exceptional that NSAA took an unconventional
approach to formally thanking him and honoring him
at the front end,” said Bob Bonar, NSAA’s Public Lands
Committee Chair. No financial services company delivers solutions quite like ours. We recognize that your business faces a unique set of
Meade took on the position of recreation director at time risks every day. Our team can help you assess and minimize those risks so you can focus on running your business.
when the job was no easy task. He inherited the water rights Let us show you why many of the largest resorts in North America have looked to us for solutions to protect their
clause issue and essentially made lemons into lemonade by Joe Meade skis with a smile at NSAA’s 2014 Steamboat Winter Conference. business now and for the long term.
shifting agency policy from a “take water” approach to a
“respect a resort’s right to own and control its own water” combination of traits that make him truly like no other. Team up with us today
approach. By focusing on sufficiency of water, Meade pivoted While Meade served as national recreation director for
the agency and industry toward a workable solution on the the past four years, his previous 36 years with the agency Scott Myers, Sacramento, CA Bill Curtis, Lakewood, CO
720-963-6546 | william.curtis@safehold.com
916-558-4033 | scott.a.myers@wellsfargo.com
most important resource to our future. included posts as forest supervisor of the Chugach National
He also guided agency action through the October Forest in Alaska, as director of Recreation, Heritage, and Roger Godfrey, Sacramento, CA Ryan Patrick, Portsmouth, NH
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916-558-4016 | roger.w.godfrey@wellsfargo.com
2013 government shutdown, and in typical Joe Meade Wilderness Resources for the Southwest Region, as the
fashion, managed to get out the door the summer uses, National Accessibility Program leader, and as National Rob Andrews, Seattle, WA
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uphill uses, and sponsorship advertising policy “trifecta” Partnership director.
the very day that the federal government began the shut- Meade’s affinity for the slopes made him a natural fit
down that month. with the ski industry, and his enthusiasm for getting out
“Joe Meade defines what partnership should look like,” on the mountain during NSAA conferences in all kinds of
said NSAA President, Michael Berry. weather will never be forgotten. On a personal note, thank
Meade’s warm personality, sense of humor, commu- you, Joe, for all you have done, and most of all, for your
nication skills, and boundless optimism are an amazing friendship over the years.
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