Nevada “Bootstraps” Young Adult Crew Restores Sage Grouse Habitat
Read this inspiring story about the award-winning Bootstraps program – reported in the Reno Gazette Journal last month, with additional new photos (by Genevieve Mason) provided from the University of Nevada Cooperative Extension.
Field & Stream Video of Ken Miracle, Sage Grouse “Hero of Conservation”
August 23, 2014
Utah NRCS Provides 250,000 Fence Markers This Year to Prevent Sage Grouse Collisions: Volunteers Make it Happen
September 5, 2014
Read this inspiring story about the award-winning Bootstraps program – reported in the Reno Gazette Journal last month, with additional new photos (by Genevieve Mason) provided from University of Nevada Cooperative Extension.
(Photo to right: Crew member Lindsi Manning-Eben)
CONTACTS
Rodney L. Davis, Extension Educator (founder/coordinator of the decade-long program)
University of Nevada Cooperative Extension
Office: 775-635-5565
Cell: 775-374-0784
Claudene Wharton
Communications Specialist
University of Nevada Cooperative Extension
775-784-7072
whartonc@unce.unr.edu
At-risk young adults learn job skills, help sage grouse
By Lenita Powers, RGJ
The Nevada desert near Austin has become a classroom this week for at-risk young adults who are learning job skills while helping that state’s fragile sage grouse population.
They are members of this year’s crew in the Bootstraps Program.
Now in its 10th year, the award-winning program pays men and women ages 18-25 to work for six months removing pinyon pine and juniper trees to support more favorable habitat for sage grouse as well as a mule deer and other wildlife. READ MORE
PHOTOS OF THE BOOTSTRAPS TEAM AT WORK (by Bootstraps Job Coach Genevieve Mason)
Colby Simms
Clint Holly
Jose Sarrano
Jordan Lee
.Lindsi Manning-Eben
