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in church, play guitar and ukulele software supplier (Techsoup). The Wild Horse Directive
and are great rifle shots at the range, software will indentify and facilitate
among other talents. Laureen has been access to relevant grant programs he Bureau of Land Manage-
a school teacher for most of her career and provide tutorials in writing let- ment has announced plans to
and, more recently, has been involved ters of inquiry and grant requests. Teuthanize thousands of wild
as a Health Educator for women, in- • Year ending May 2008 memberships horses captured mostly from Nevada’s
cluding natural treatment processes, stand at 381, or 7% over one year ranges. There is an estimated 20,000
nutrition and therapeutic massage. She ago. Volunteer hours ending May to 30,000 horses in federal holding
graduated from University of Hawai’i 2008 were 11,751—slightly up over facilities and contract ranches. BLM
and Aloha School of Massage. one year ago. says that there is no money to continue
After a number of years in the • Ranger Gina Mele has asked for maintaining the horses and adoption
Hawaiian Rain Forest, and then at the a Friends volunteer to assume her programs don’t find homes for enough
top of a 10,000-ft volcano, Pat Wil- duties in coordinating the Red Rock of them. It has been claimed that there
liams assures me that I will be able to Photo Contest. Gina’s workload does is not enough forage or water to sup-
both dry off and warm up at RRC! She not permit her to continue. She will port the wild horses; however, millions
also said that a number of you will feel mentor anyone willing to assume of head of cattle are grazed on many of
compelled to advise me, however, that the task. the same ranges. Birth control serums
“It’s a dry heat.” By the time you read in two and three year varieties are
this I should be nearing the boundaries • Volunteers are needed to man a available, but have been rarely used.
of Red Rock, so say “hello” when you recruitment table inside the Visitor For more information, go to
see the guy with a long last name on his Center for a few hours on a weekend http://www.blm.gov/wo/st/en/prog/
nametag. I’m really looking forward to and are asked to call or email Barb wild_horse_and_burro.html. A feed-
working with you all and having some Jorgensen, fjorgensen@aol.com. back form is available online at
fun in the Mojave. Aloha. • The BLM National Training Center the website.
(NTC) will be hosting a grant writ- Additional information and updates
Mark Tanaka-Sanders ing training seminar during October/ are available on http://www.lasvegas-
Park Manager, RRC NCA November in Las Vegas. Friends will now.com. Click on I-Team Reports.

provide lunch. Any member attend-
June Board Notes: ing must agree to commit to assisting

with grant writing for Friends.
• The Cultural Resources committee • The Memorial Walkway is ac- Calling all Friends of Red
will assist Bureau of Land Manage- cepting applications. Eight have Rock Canyon members!
ment archeologists in organizing been received, so far. The layout will
and digitizing a large volume of per- ant to have some fun,
sonal records, photographs and slides be reconfigured so that blank tiles meet new people and
can be removed to allow for more Wshare information about
sales. More footage will be avail- Friends of Red Rock Canyon and
able with the new Visitor Center volunteer opportunities?
design. Chuck Williams will co- Beginning August 2, Friends of
ordinate the reconfiguration and Red Rock Canyon will begin staffing

replacement of moved tiles that the an information table in the Red Rock
construction company is financially Canyon Visitor Center. Initially, we
obligated to replace. will schedule only on Saturday and
Sunday between 10 a.m. and 2 p.m.,
but will likely have a presence over
The July board meeting was held on
belonging to Eileen Green (former holiday weekends and during ‘peak’
archeologist at UNLV). July 11, at the Visitor Center. There visitation periods. Training and all
• Friends has purchased a one-year will be no August board meeting.
subscription to “GrantStation” soft- The next General Meeting will
ware for $99 through a nonprofit be Sept. 13 at Red Springs. News and Notes, continued on page 7

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