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…
Current public management of sensitive species has often been hindered by limited and incomplete knowledge as a result of outdated research, inadequate staffing, or the confines of project-based data gathering. But over the past year, GBI has been working with the Nevada Department of Wildlife and Bureau of Land Management to rectify this situation in the Elko District. Through the…
Though the holiday season is always a busy one, that didn’t stop GBI field personnel from sending in a wide selection of great pics for the December photo contest. This month’s winner is NCC Crew Member, Allison Hirvonen, who took the above photo at the Kershaw Ryan State Park trail project. Our congratulations and thanks to Allison and our other…
Lately, we really haven’t given our trails crews enough love on these pages, but they continue to do great work building and restoring trails throughout Nevada and the West. These include the Flume Trail project in Incline Village, the 5th Street project close to Prison Hill in Carson City, the Spooner Lake Trail project in Tahoe, Great Basin National Park…
The Devils Hole pupfish (Cyprinodon diabolis) is a tough fish, able to survive in the waters of a single spring in Ash Meadows National Refuge. . These waters average 92-93 degrees Fahrenheit and are characterized by low dissolved oxygen and limited food sources. Water pumping in the late 1960s and 1970s, however, dropped water levels, threatening to destroy the shallow…
Nature, they say, offers solace and beauty. But when our media team offered a theme of “SPOOKY!” for the October photo contest, our field personnel brought out the darker side of our environment. The winner is AmeriCorps member Joshua Schuster who submitted the above picture of his archaeology crew in the Spring Mountains. Enjoy these other submissions, eerie, startling, atmospheric……
In September 2019, GBI entered into an agreement with the National Park Service to deploy a Research Associate to conduct historical interpretation and engage with various communities, including Japanese Americans and Tribal peoples, at Manzanar National Historic Site. Manzanar is, of course, best known as a Japanese American internment site during World War II. This project aims to increase understanding…
From September 29th to October 3rd, Reno, NV played host to the first joint conference of The Wildlife Society and American Fisheries Society. Spread out between the Reno Convention Center and several area hotels, this was the largest gathering of fish and wildlife professionals ever. Indeed, the conference drew around 4,400 participants. As conference organizers explain, this conference provides “[u]nprecedented…
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