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11th Annual
Get Intimate with the Shrub-Steppe
Saturday May 1, 2010
9:00 am to 2:00 pm (7:30 am birding field trip)
Helen McCabe Park (main venue, booths, some field trips, and all lectures)
Umtanum Recreation Area (field trips, River Bugs and Fish booth, and Reptile booth)
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| Map to Helen McCabe State Park |
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| Map of Helen McCabe State Park |
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Thanks to our Sponsors!
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Special Thanks to our Ponderosa Pine Event Sponsor - The Copy Shop - 11 Years in a Row!
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2010 Field Trip Leader and Lecturer Biographies
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Rod Pfeifle is a forester with the Washington State Department of Natural Resources (DNR) in Ellensburg, Washington. He is responsible for sustainable management of state timber trust lands in the Yakima and Ellensburg area for the citizens of Washington State. Rod graduated from Washington State University in 1984 with a Bachelor of Science Degree in Forest Management. After working seasonally for the US Forest Service, Rod worked as a consultant in the Colville area for 16 years before starting his career with DNR in 2003. Rod is an also an avid outdoorsman, enjoying hunting, fishing, hiking and camping in his spare time.
Tom Cottrell is a plant ecologist at CWU, with M.S. and
Ph.D. degrees from Colorado State University. He teaches Plant Biology,
Terrestrial Plant Ecology, and Plant Taxonomy, among other courses, at
CWU. His research focuses on the effects of fire on plant communities,
and cottonwood growth in riparian forests. He has a genuine love for the
native plants of the shrub steppe, and for being in the field.
| Scott Nicolai - is the father of two boys. He holds bachelors degrees in biology and science education and a masters degree in environmental studies. He has worked as a habitat biologist for the last 17 years for the Yakama Nation Fisheries Program.
Dan Beck lives in Ellenburg, where he studies snakes and teaches biology at CWU. He has participated in GISS since its inception in 2000.
Charles McGehee - Born and raised in Kansas City, Missouri, I attended Baylor University, the University of Oregon, and University of Nevada, Reno. Throughout high school I took pictures for the school year book, as well as studying art for four years where I learned, among other things, elements of color, composition and lighting. With retirement from Central Washington University, where I taught sociology for some thirty-five years, I have returned to my earlier love of the camera embracing the digital revolution. Since then I have exhibited in central Washington and Seattle, and in June, will exhibit in Berlin, Germany.
Deb Essman: I am an avid amateur ornithologist/birder. I never say I’m an expert unless I am lecturing at least 200 miles from home. I rehabilitated birds of prey in California (’72-‘80) and at the Woodland Park Zoo (‘80-‘81). I was a Wildlife Officer (ie. Game Warden) for the Wa State Dept of Fish and Wildlife (‘83-‘90). I have lived in the Kittitas Valley for 20 years (’89-present). I am a Cascade Land Conservancy trustee, secretary of the Kittitas County Field and Stream Club (the 2nd oldest sports club in Washington—90 years old this year), and a KEEN board member (not as active as I’d like). I also occasionally help lead Kittitas County Audubon field trips. I have been attending the Ellensburg School District’s 5th grade camp for almost 20 years teaching about wildlife and especially birds of prey. Oh, and I am manager of Sterling Savings Bank in Ellensburg.
Patrick McCutcheon is a professor of Anthropology at CWU
who focuses on Archaeology, Evolutionary Theoretical Perspectives, Cultural
Resource Management, Lithic Analysis, and American Indian Studies. He has extensive field experience in
archeology, and is conducting archeological surveys and research with his
students in the Saddle Mountains north of Mattawa and at Mount Rainier National
Park. He enjoys hiking in the sage brush
steppe with his family and dogs looking at birds, geology, soils, plants and
evidence of past human land use.
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| Pat Lubinski is an archaeologist in the
Anthropology Department at CWU. He has conducted field archaeological
work in a variety of areas of the United States as well as other
countries. His current work focuses on zooarchaeology (animal bones at
archaeological sites) and the Wenas Creek mammoth excavation site near Selah.
He teaches courses in Anthropology, Archeology, Prehistory, Zooarchaeology, and
Resource Management.
Karl Lillquist is a physical geographer at CWU. His upbringing in Coulee City, WA probably
played a big part in his love of physical geography field study. "I grew
up amidst the Channeled Scablands of eastern Washington. My parent's house was
situated on a late Pleistocene flood scoured basalt surface, and I grew up
recreating in this unique landscape."
He teaches physical geography, geomorphology, soils, airphoto analysis,
mountain environments, and arid lands. Karl's recent research has focused on
geomorphic and stratigraphic evidence for environmental change in the western
U.S. including mass wasting, glaciers, and arroyos. Both Karl and his spouse
Nancy are Geography alumni, and they have two boys–Erik and Jensen. In his
spare time, Karl enjoys most human-powered outdoor activities (including rock
rolling), wrestling with his boys, making compost for Nancy's garden, and yard
saling.
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Richard Ambrose: I have a bachelor's degree biology. I worked 28 plus years for three different park systems. 26 years for Washington State Parks. I taught Native plants for 13 quarters and ethnobotany for 1 quarter at Skagit Valley Community College. I have conducted numerous guided walks and hikes. I have studied native plants for over 30 years. I enjoy hiking, backpacking, snowshoeing, canoeing and fishing. I have written a hiking article for the local newspaper once a month for the past nine years. My wife and I have worked as volunteer rangers and caretakers for the forest service in Hell's Canyon for 8 seasons and BLM in S.E. Utah for 6 seasons.
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