In early 2018, GBI entered into an agreement with the Bureau of Land Management to support the Wyoming State Office in promoting public outreach and wilderness education. Recent work on this agreement has yielded a number of tangible products, including interpretive signs and trail maps for the Cody, WY field office, which encompasses and manages 1.1 million surface acres in…
This is the policy status update for the week beginning 5/17/2020. The Institute is pleased to report progress toward returning to field this week. While not all partnership activity will resume as planned, the 2020 summer field season does appear more viable and promising at this time. Please continue to stay in close communication with your GBI coordinators as training…
Certainly, April proved to be an unusual month for GBI and its field personnel. The suspension of field activities impeded our monthly media contest, but leave it to our people to rally in the face of obstacles and submit the great images included in the gallery below. Our winner this month is AmeriCorps member Jake Weinberger, who submitted the above…
GBI would like to take this time to shine a well-deserved spotlight on Dr. Glenn Miller, who has long served as the Chair of the Institute’s Board of Directors. GBI’s executive director Jerry Keir offers his thoughts about Dr. Miller: Glenn and I met in 1997 when his reputation as a thoughtful and skilled mentor led me to his offices…
Although GBI field operations are currently suspended, our personnel were able to get a good number of spectacular photos in for the March media contest, and we’re delighted to present some of these submissions here. Among these is the above photo by Research Associate Joey Danielson, who tell us that the picture “was taken while driving home from a field…
GBI personnel were well represented at this year’s Desert Tortoise Council Symposium, held February 20-22, 2020 in Las Vegas. In fact, they made up about 10% of all attendees. GBI’s Desert Tortoise Data and Program Manager, Jackie Dougherty, and Associate Director for Southern Nevada, Terry Christopher, provide an overview of the symposium and GBI’s involvement below. The Desert Tortoise Council…
The GBI Photo Contest continued to prove that our field personnel not only have great dedication to our landscapes, but also have a great eye for framing it. February’s winner is Research Associate Dorian Miller, who is serving as Archaeology Technician at Death Valley National Park. He describes the image as “The view east towards historic Geologists Cabin with Striped…
In 2018, GBI became the interpretive association for Taylor Creek Visitor Center, located on the south shore of Lake Tahoe. The visitor center is home to the Lake of the Sky Amphitheater and Steam Profile Chamber, and also offers a variety of interpretive materials and programs. It is estimated that about 150,000 people visited the center during the 2019 operating…
We are very excited to share this video, created by Trina Kleist, Kylene Yumul, and Janice Baker, students at the University of Nevada, Reno’s Reynolds School of Journalism. It details work being done on the Galena Creek Restoration project, which seeks to stabilize creek beds in order to reduce the erosion of dirt into our water system. Additionally, the project,…
The monthly GBI media contest takes flight for 2020 with this spectacular bit of video from AmeriCorps member Taylor Thomas, who explains, “This is a video of the lucky California Condor known as 586 (K6) being released back into the wild after undergoing treatment for lead toxicity. I am serving with The Peregrine Fund, a nonprofit organization dedicated to the…
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