Saturday, September 25 was National Public Lands Day. For visitor services at Ash Meadows National Wildlife Refuge, this would normally mean the hosting of a large cattail removal volunteer event. This year, however, recommended protocols to slow the spread of COVID-19 resulted in the suspension of this event. This also required visitor center staff to think creatively about how to…
“Fall” was the theme of this month’s GBI media contest. And, as usual, GBI employees were able to capture the atmosphere and color of the season beautifully in the photos presented here. Our October winner was the Nevada Conservation Corps’ Zach Turner, who took the photo above. He calls this one A Lineup of Sawyers. “This photo was taken in…
The coronavirus pandemic has certainly stifled field operations during this year. However, these circumstances allowed personnel who would normally be out in the field to redirect their attention to deferred data management tasks, which they were able to complete while adhering to necessary social distancing protocols. For example, in the Grand Canyon-Parashant National Monument, GBI has been conducting data collection…
As promised, here’s a second installment of our September media contest submissions. This month’s theme was “still life,” and the winner was Stanislaus-based AmeriCorps archaeology technician, Bianca Anaya, whose second submission graces the top of the page. “This photo was taken during a smoky morning off a prehistoric logging grade,” she explains. “I couldn’t help but find peace in the…
Another month, another photo contest. And this time around, given the theme “still life”, our field personnel outdid themselves. So much so that we are again splitting our submission gallery into two parts. This month’s winner was AmeriCorps member Bianca Anaya, who is a part of a six-person crew of archaeological technicians working in the Stanislaus National Forest. “This photo…
In late September, GBI staff came together to make progress on the Galena Creek Restoration Project, started in Fall 2019. This project has been generously funded by the Truckee River Fund, a local grant program in Northern Nevada. The project was originally meant to bring schoolchildren and community members to the park to restore areas of the creek that have…
On September 22nd, 2020, Executive Order for Combatting Race and Sex Stereotyping was signed by President Trump ordering all Federal Agencies, Uniformed Services and Federal Contractors to prohibit diversity training or related training programs that promote “divisive concepts” which are considered “offensive and anti-American race and sex stereotyping and scapegoating”. GBI is aware of this new Executive Order and we…
Here’s the second part of our August 2020 media contest, headed by the atmospheric photo above, courtesy of the Nevada Conservation Corps’ own Sean Herman, who won the NCC photo contest. Sean describes the photo, which depicts crew member Elina Turner: “This photo was taken at sunrise under the smoke of the Hog Fire. This project had us stationed near…
Submissions to our August media contest were dramatic, varied, and plentiful. Such was the quality and quantity of this month’s submissions – and so difficult the selection of a winner – that we had a tie for the first time. Not only that, but to keep this Field Update from becoming unwieldy, we’ll be splitting our submission gallery in two….
In our August 17th Field Update, we told you a bit about the Nevada Mapping Collaborative, which began in 2018 with a grant from the Nevada Off-Highway Vehicle (OHV) Program and the State Recreational Trails Program (RTP) to The Great Basin Institute. In this update, we present some of the tangible results of this collaboration, particularly in the form of…
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