Terri Mashour

Terri Mashour is a second-generation Florida native from Jacksonville. She has contributed articles to Footprint magazine of the Florida Trail Association, the Ponte Vedra Recorder, and

Forest Policy and Economics journal.

With her sister, she cofounded www.fun4firstcoastkids.com, and she reviews the top places to hike, camp, and get out into nature in and around Jacksonville for the website’s blog. She has received two master’s degrees from the University of Florida, one in forest resources and conservation and a second in ecological restoration.

Before taking a brief career break to care for her young children, she worked almost a decade in Florida’s forests, swamps, sandhills, and prairies as a land management planner and land management specialist with the St. Johns River Water Management District. She proudly earned her Florida Certified Burner certification while seven months pregnant and has participated in almost 100 burns or wildfires.