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By Sharon Schaaf

Outdoor Recreation Planner Shelby Johnson in the west. An alumnus of Vermont’s Johnson
comes to State College, Andrew studied anthropology,
Red Rock archeology and environmental education. He
Photo by Friends of Red Rock Canyon eleven week Idaho Falls, Idaho where he ran a small visitor
Canyon
worked for many years with the National Park
Service before joining the Bureau of Land Man-
after com-
agement. He comes to Red Rock Canyon from
pleting an
center and did outreach and education for the
internship
district.
through the
American
Andrew had visited Red Rock Canyon several
Conserva-
times before coming to work here and enjoyed
tion Experi-
his visits each time. Teaching educational
ence at the
BLM’s Field
pretation programs for the public is part of his
Office in
job. In Idaho he developed an outdoor education
Kemmerer, programs in our local schools and doing inter-
Wyoming. Originally from Soda Springs, Idaho, program for at-risk youth and would like to do
she graduated from Weber State University in something similar here.
Ogden, Utah where she studied Recreation and Joe Kotecki grew up in the Denver area and
Sports Management. has always

Shelby is brand new to the Las Vegas area and loved the
is looking forward to hiking all the trails in Red outdoors.
Rock Canyon. She works in the Visitor Center, Through
monitors events and processes Special Recre- high school
ation Permits. and college
he was a ski
Andrew Swan is one of three Park Rangers patroller with Photo by Susan Murphy
at Red Rock the Copper
Canyon, Mountain Ski
supervising Patrol. Joe is
a recent grad-
and manag-
Photo provided by Andrew Swan tor Center. he studied Recreation and Outdoor Leadership.
uate of Western State Colorado University where
ing the Visi-
Originally
Here at Red Rock Canyon Joe is a Wilderness
from cold
Climbing Park Ranger. One of his goals is to
and snowy
promote safe, clean climbing. By designating
Vermont, he
and signing trails to climbing areas, we can stop
has spent the
last twenty
like to explore more areas in the conservation
years in vari-
area for new places to climb.
ous locations the braiding of trails through the park. He’d also

Spring 2017