Executive Director, Partnership for the National Trails System. She previously served as Executive Director of the Big Bend Conservancy in Texas, Mission Heritage Partners, and the Public Lands Foundation. Courtney is also serving as the Parks and Trail specialist for the Great Springs Project, a network of spring-to-spring trails and protected natural areas over the Edwards Aquifer between San Antonio and Austin. Courtney teaches one Mass Communications class per semester at Texas State University. Courtney has more than twenty-five years of experience in public lands and public-private partnerships.

For the Autumn 2024 issue, Courtney recommended Journeys North: The Pacific Crest Trail, Barney Scout Mann, Mountaineers Books, 2020, 320 pages.

For the Summer 2024 issue, Courtney recommended Fire Weather: On the Front Lines of a Burning World, John Vaillant, Knopf, 2023, 432 pages.

For the Spring 2024 issue, Courtney recommended Wild Girls: How the Outdoors Shaped the Women Who Challenged a Nation, Tiya Miles, W.W. Norton & Co., 2023, 192 pages.

For the Winter 2023-2024 issue, Courtney recommended Homewaters: A Human and Natural History of Puget Sound, David B. Williams, University of Washington Press, (paperback) 2022, 264 pages.

For the Autumn 2023 issue, Courtney recommended Hola Ranger: My Journey Through the National Parks, David Vela, 2022, 236 pages.

For the Summer 2023 issue, Courtney recommended American Wolf: A True Story of Survival and Obsession in the West, Nate Blakeslee, Crown, 2018, 302 pages.

For the Spring 2023 issue, Courtney recommended The Land Has Memory: Indigenous Knowledge, Native Landscapes, and the National Museum of the American Indian, Duane Blue Spruce and Tanya Thrasher (editors), University of North Carolina Press, 2009, 184 pages.

For the Winter 2022-2023 issue, Courtney recommended Ice Bound: A Doctor's Incredible Battle for Survival at the South Pole, Dr. Jerri Nielsen and Maryanne Vollers, Miramax, 2001, 384 pages.

For the Autumn 2022 issue, Courtney recommended No Barriers: A Blind Man's Journey to Kayak the Grand Canyon, Erik Weihenmayer and Buddy Levy, Thomas Dunne Books, 2017, 480 pages.