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Micahel Plansky

Back in my adopted home, Lake Tahoe, after defending my Cal Poly Pomona Landscape Architecture thesis. Lots of interesting rec trends going on in Tahoe. Seems years of bike trail development is starting see the connectivity needed to encourage biking as a viable alternative- & the 2011 Ski Area Recreation Act's opening up the possibility of 4-season recreation on USFS lands- Heavenly's priming its pumps for "higher" yr-round recreation from the top of its Gondola to hedge global-warming omens alluded to recently by NRCD- "Frisbee Golf" is named specifically in the Act- So, after studying disc golf for 2 yrs for my thesis on the culture of urban disc golf in Socal (I proposed golfers could become stewards of degraded, underutilized urban land; agents for restoring natural processes), now I'm poised to investigate how to inscribe disc culture into sensitive mountain lands without degrading the resources that make disc golf desirable. Both ends of the spectrum; restoration & preservation