Terry O'Sullivan

Terry O'Sullivan was interviewed on June 7, 2024 by Karen Brewster via Zoom with Terry in his home in Scottsdale, Arizona and Karen in Fairbanks, Alaska. In this interview, Terry talks about working for the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) in Anchorage, Alaska as the first Iditarod National Historic Trail Administrator starting in 1979, where he helped develop the trail’s comprehensive management plan and oversaw the Iditarod Trail Oral History Project to document historic uses of the trail. He also talks about working within agency administrative structure, providing public information about the trail, working with the Iditarod Trail Advisory Council and in the Joint State Federal Trail Office, coordinating with community groups, trail marking and management, permitting trail uses, and efforts to protect land with easements and rights of ways.

Because this interview was conducted between two computers over the Internet using the Zoom program, there are places where the audio is not of the best quality and it may be difficult to hear what Terry says. We did the best we could given the circumstances and technological limitations.