FoGB Speaker Series: Gold Butte National Monument- An Overview by Jim Boone

Gold Butte National Monument is coming up on it's 9th Anniversary this year! That's right, almost a decade as a designated national monument! Join the Friends of Gold Butte as "Mr. Gold Butte," our own Jim Boone presents an overview of the monument, from its beginning to present day.

An outdoorsman since before birth, Jim camped and backpacked throughout the western US with family and did month-long summer backpacking trips with friends when 15 and
16 years old. Jim worked a dozen seasons in western National Parks, and with his wife Liz, attended Humboldt State University (B.S. in Wildlife Management, 1987) and the University of Georgia (M.S. in Forest Resources; Ph.D. in Ecology, 1995). Jim's
dissertation involved the morphology and genetics of rapid evolution in field mice, which required months of time hiking and camping in southeastern hardwood swamps.
Arriving in Las Vegas in 1995, Jim did ecological research on the Nevada Test Site, spending 11 years with the Yucca Mountain Nuclear Waste Project. In 2002, he began building BirdAndHike.com, a website that helps people to find peace and solitude in wild places and thereby gains public support for protecting these places for future generations.

In 2006 Jim started an environmental consulting company primarily engaged in desert tortoise surveys and enforcing environmental laws on construction sites. Now retired, Jim
and Liz hike, camp, watch birds, work on the website, and advocate for land conservation issues.

This will be a Zoom presentation, and the link will be available to those who register to attend.