This is the policy status update for the week beginning April 6, 2020. In response to the increasing risk related to the COVID 19 outbreak, the National Park Service has closed many units to the public. Concerns over NPS staff and visitor safety have resulted in restricted access to mitigate the pandemic now seen across the US. Please visit the…
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…
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public management of sensitive species has often been hindered by limited and incomplete knowledge as a result of outdated research, inadequate staffing, or the confines of project-based data gathering.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……
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