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High Sierra Resource Workshop
NNREC is pleased to honor the High Sierra Resources Workshop (HSRW) with the 2006 Environmental Education Program Award. HSRW has operated since 1991, making it one of the longest and most successful programs in the state. Each summer a group of high school students interested in the outdoors and natural resource careers spends time learning about resource management issues and then enters the wilderness to apply their learning, appreciate the beauty, and enjoy making new friends.
Two or three facilitators plan and present each program. Phyllis Atkinson, Nancy Greenhalgh and Carol Heinricy have been the most consistent facilitators, but may others have served at times including Shirley Pollock, Mark Kimbrough, Aaron Schnaible, Dave Schroeder, Chris Miller, Rich Harvey, Sue Jacox, Dan Allison, Suzanne Sturtevant, Konnie Susich, Pam Calhoun, Karla Kramer, Bob Goodman, Emily McPherson and Linda Pence.
The program was started by Pat Murphy of the Nevada Division of Forestry and Guy Pence of the Forest Service, and has been coordinated for some time by Steve Hale of the Carson Ranger District of the Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest, with involvement by Chris Miller of the Bureau of Land Management and other agency personnel at different times. A grant from the Nevada Division of Forestry Conservation Education Program has funded a significant part of the cost of the workshop every year, allowing participant registration fees to be kept low. The Backcountry Horsemen of Nevada packs food and gear into the Carson-Iceberg Wilderness so that high school students new to backpacking can make the trip. For the last several years, the first part of the program has been located at Silver Saddle Ranch, a BLM facility on the Carson River, and there have been visits to Lake Tahoe including time on the UC Davis Tahoe Environmental Research Center boat, and to the Leviathan Mine, a SuperFund site in California that pollutes the Carson River.
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