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Written by Wild Nevada
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Tuesday, 19 June 2012 10:24 |
Hello, there, job applicant.
Are you interested in becoming our next Administrative Director?
We hope so.
Here's the scoop: This will be a salary position for a total of 25 hours per week. It includes Health, Dental and Life/Disability Insurance.
Bookkeeping duties include:
• Receive bills
• Pay bills through banking EFT and checks
• Prepare employees reimbursement forms
• Reconcile bank statements
• Create sales invoices
• Make deposit of funds received by Membership Coordinator and take to bank
• Enter all data in Quickbooks Pro
• Yearly adjusting entries-closing books
• Collect timesheets biweekly from employees
• Payroll – every other week (Wednesdays)
• Send in quarterly Nevada sales tax
Budgeting duties include:
• Create timeline for budget and work with staff to create first draft of budget
• Work with ED (executive director) and Board to create yearly budget
• Update Budget when needed
Yearly Taxes duties include:
• Coordinate with accountant for 990
• Coordinate audit-primary contact for auditors
• Post 990 on website-respond to questions
Reporting duties include:
• Create any financial reports that are needed
• Update and send reports for board quarterly meetings
• Send reports to board treasurer monthly
• Update Board Web Page
• Update Cash Flow Reports
• Update Staff on Income/Expenses compared to Budget
GAAP Compliant duties include:
• Maintain Fiscal Policies put into place from the audit
Administrative duties include:
• Maintain office supplies
• Maintain relationships with vendors
• Oversee IT needs ie. offsite backup, maintenance and upkeep
• Organize/maintain more efficient electronic and paper filing systems
• Update Employee Handbook as needed.
Fundraising duties include:
• Maintain grants calendar for submitting grants and reporting on them
• Creating financial reports for foundation reports and grants
• Event coordinator for Artown Exhibit and Wild & Scenic Film Festival (assisted by the Membership Coordinator)
• Assist in mailing appeals and renewals
• Assist in merchandise and promotional materials
And that's it!
OK, so if you're interested, you need to contact the person you would be replacing, Denise Barclay.
You can email Denise or call her at 775-657-8430.
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Written by Wild Nevada
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Monday, 14 May 2012 13:24 |
 Bob Abbey, the director of the Bureau of Land Management and a former Reno-area resident, has announced his retirement from the BLM.
Abbey was appointed to the post in 2009 by President Barack Obama after being recommended by Sen. Harry Reid. Abbey had previously been Nevada’s BLM director.
At the national helm, Abbey helped usher in the era of renewable energy projects on public lands – a key priority of Obama’s administration. Abbey OK’d 29 large-scale renewable energy projects on public land, including 16 solar projects, eight geothermal plants and five wind farms.
A key issue for the BLM in Abbey’s absence is how to promote conservation efforts for the sage-grouse, which is a candidate for Endangered Species List. Abbey has expressed confidence that the listing, which would have widespread and devastating impacts on public land-use in Nevada, can be avoided.
Deputy BLM Director Mike Pool will serve as acting director.
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Written by Wild Nevada
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Thursday, 10 May 2012 08:08 |
Nature lovers looking for a shot of inspiration for their summer adventures will find it in abundance at the Wild Nevada Art Exhibit, designed to evoke the best of Nevada’s unique wild places through striking works of art.
The exhibit, part of the Artown 2012 events taking place in Reno throughout the month of July, will run 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday through Friday, July 9-13 and 10 a.m.- 4 p.m., Saturday, July 14.
An open house will feature the opportunity to meet the artists and enjoy refreshments and live music, 4-7 p.m., Thursday, July 12.
Admission to all events is free, sponsored by the Nevada Wilderness Project at its headquarters, 333 Flint Street in Reno.
“We invite all outdoor enthusiasts as well as art lovers to this week-long exhibit of artwork and photographs that capture Nevada's unparalleled wildlife and scenic wonders,” said Jeneane Harter, Nevada Wilderness Project executive director.
Among the featured professional and amateur artists and photographers are well-known local painter, Eric Holland; landscape artist, Emma Auriemma-McKay; and wildlife wood sculptor, Craig Mortimore.
Nature and outdoor photographers including noted northern Nevada wildlife photographer Larry Neel are showcased in works depicting some of Nevada’s most cherished as well as remote and amazing wildlife and wilderness areas. Most of the works will be available for sale at the end of the exhibit, with a portion of the proceeds benefiting Nevada Wilderness Project’s work in wildlife habitat conservation, wilderness preservation and smart development of renewable energy.
For more information regarding the Wild Nevada Art Exhibit, the Nevada Wilderness Project or to volunteer, visit www.wildnevada.org or call 775-657-8430.
For Artown details, visit www.renoisartown.com.
About Artown: The Nevada Wilderness Project’s Wild Nevada Art Exhibit, presented during the month of July, is part of the 17th annual Artown festival, July, 2012. The month-long summer arts festival features more than 400 events produced by more than 100 cultural organizations and businesses in locations citywide. Artown receives major funding from the City of Reno, and is sponsored by Grand Sierra Resort, U.S. Bank, NV Energy, JLH Inc., Waste Management, Basin Street Properties, Reno Gazette-Journal, KOLO 8 News Now, KTHX-FM and KNPB with additional support from the Nevada Arts Council and the National Endowment for the Arts.
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Written by Wild Nevada
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Friday, 13 April 2012 11:04 |
 In the spirit of this thing we’ve heard of called fun and spring we're re-launching a series of opportunities for members to get to know us better.
We call it Wild Wednesdays, and it’s held on the third Wednesday of the month.
This month we’re at St. James Infirmary at 445 California Avenue in Reno.
If it's nice we'll be on the porch. If it's not nice we'll be inside. Either way, we'll be the friendly outdoorsy-looking folks with a sage grouse and some beers.
This is not just another opportunity for NWP staffers to drink – Lord knows we have enough of those. Instead it’s an opportunity for us to meet you – our members and anyone who is interested in the work we do . It’s a chance for us to make new friends and get together with some old friends who are passionate about protecting Nevada’s spectacular wild places.
It’s a BYOB (buy your own beer) kind of get-together, with the idea being that we’ll keep our hard-earned dollars and member contributions working for wilderness and not our own personal merriment, although these are often one in the same.
So stop by, say hi and hoist a cold one with us. We’ll update you on everything we’re working on, if you wish, our else we can all just share tall tales about our recent hikes or fishing expeditions.
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Written by Wild Nevada
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Friday, 24 February 2012 16:24 |
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 The Nevada Wilderness Project membership survey is up and running, and we’re here to say two things:
- Thanks!
- Help!
The thanks, of course, are to the scores of thoughtful folks who have responded to our various email and Facebook pleas .
The ‘help!’ comment is to those of you who haven’t been able to take the survey yet. We hope you’ll find time to answer our 10 little questions sometime before March 5.
(Show of hands; have we inserted enough links to the survey? No? Really?)
Think of it this way: spending a few minutes on our survey is a nice way for you to mentally revisit to the wild areas you love. So give yourself a few moments to share why you love these places and what you’re willing to do to make sure they remain wild for future generations. If you take the survey, your name gets entered into a drawing to win one of our cool hats or T-shirts .
We checked with your boss, and she said it was OK for you to take our survey on company time. She said some other things about your productivity but we don’t need to go into details. That’s between you and the HR person.
Seriously, though, take the survey. We’re not kidding when we say we want to get closer to you. So far, we’ve learned some interesting things about our members, such as:
- You like to hike! And take pictures. We like that because in the next several months we’re hoping to set up a way for you to share your wilderness photos on our website.
- You think urban sprawl, unmanaged recreation use and a lack of public awareness are the three greatest threats to wild places. We tend to agree with you there.
- You think public outreach and education are among the best ways to protect sensitive places. We hear you.
Listen, this survey takes just a couple of minutes to complete so we hope you’ll let your voice be heard. If you have time and you’ve got some more in-depth thoughts on wilderness and wildlife protection and “smart” renewable energy, the survey gives you room to write. We’d love to hear from you.
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Monday, 12 December 2011 12:45 |
 Many of you have heard the sad news that Mike Colpo passed away unexpectedly this past week. This is the kind of tragic event that sharpens our intent to live each moment to its fullest. Most of us will meet few people as fit and energetic, accomplished in the skills of backcountry living or as passionate about protecting wild places as Mike. There are no words that can adequately capture the shock of this for us or any of his friends or family, but we still wish to honor Mike and let others know a little bit about the man we knew and why he was so special to us. Below are a few stories from NWP past and present that we wish to share that capture his spirit as we knew it.
Mike had a desk next to the NWP world headquarters for the many years we were stationed at the Patagonia building in Reno. One day early last spring, the Republican-led U.S. House of Representatives introduced a bill that that attacked the Antiquities Act, the great 1906 conservation law that has afforded powers to U.S. presidents from Roosevelt onward to preserve some of our country's most impressive wild places. When that anti-Antiquities Act bill was introduced, we initially felt distraught and powerless to try and help tackle such a daunting, national issue. How could we, as a handful of Nevada Wilderness Project employees, help raise meaningful opposition to this horrible bill? Mike overheard our conversations on this topic and immediately agreed to reach out to the larger Patagonia customer base through Facebook. With his help, we reached 100,000 people instead of just 3,000, and more than tripled the number of people who came to our website to take action against this lousy bill! Public outcry from people around the country resulted in its defeat, and Mike threw the heft of Patagonia into the mix for us, something that made a tremendous difference.
Folks who know Mike no doubt knew he was a "foodie," and others can speak to the depth of his passion for this. On one backcountry ski trip with NWP staff and friends in the Schell Creek Range, in a cramped cabin after a long ski in, Mike was fresh off a plane from Chamonix. He had spent the past several months working for Patagonia in France. In the dim light of a crackling fire and in the dank smell of a cabin filled with sweaty people and wet gear, Mike hauled out some contraband–some of the stinkiest and best French cheese to have ever made its way to Nevada. His eyes gleamed and his smile was broad as he recounted his smuggling strategy to get it past Customs.
Mike saw and relished in the deep and often overlooked beauty of Nevada. He bristled at those who thumbed their noses at the state and her mountains. He was also restless in his pursuit of adventure in the Silver State and NWP was often the beneficiary of his creativity. He did the initial wilderness inventories for Wovoka , when we still called it Bald Mountain, in Lyon County and the Kern Mountains, including the Blue Mass area, in White Pine County on BIKE! (Read Mike’s firsthand account of the Kern Mountains adventure.) The former inventory led to several wild and capsized float trips down the east fork of the Walker River, a rare if not first descent. His second inventory resulted in a call to NWP from a bewildered Sheriff inquiring if Mike was missing, befuddled to find his car parked in a seemingly random location in rural Nevada. And though Mike had kindly left a note informing any potential reader that his ancient Subaru had nothing of value in it and that there was some cold beer in the creek to thank anyone for their effort and checking in on his car, neither worked. The beer was gone and the car had been broken into.
Mike's physical forays into wilderness are legendary. He skied, ran, backpacked and paddled into amazing nooks and crannies of Nevada (among so many other places). But he also made forays into activism that resulted in meaningful political and social support for these wild places he loved. He was quietly–though firmly–supportive and encouraging to all of us at NWP, and we will always be grateful and remember him for that.
It doesn't make it easier on anyone when such undeserved tragedy strikes. But we hope it is some comfort to Mike's family and friends that his was a life lived well and fully, and with a purposefulness and a passion that has left a lasting legacy on people he knew and the lands he loved to roam.
(We invite our NWP friends and readers to share your stories and memories of Mike and his Nevada adventures in wild places in the comments section.)
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Written by Wild Nevada
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Monday, 04 April 2011 13:41 |
Hi Reno friends... The good people at Kona Gold, Reno's spot for coffee, wine and cocktails at 3304 South McCarran, is hosting happy hours to benefit the Nevada Wilderness Project every wednesday in April. Grab a friend and come on down... you'll have a chance to mingle, imbibe and purchase a raffle ticket or two! See you there.
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Written by Wild Nevada
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Wednesday, 02 June 2010 09:30 |
 Hey all you NWP summer readers out there… Sundance Bookstore in Reno, NV has events lined up with two authors we think you’ll like.
The first is a chance to meet Terry Grosz, a conservation law enforcement officer-turned-writer. He began his career in 1966 with California Fish and Game, then moved to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service where he became a Special Agent. His work included traveling throughout Asia assisting governments in curtailing wildlife smuggling. Grosz also supervised agents who protected wildlife from being smuggled or imported illegally into the US, protected eagles from being poisoned or trapped, and more.
He wrote his first book in 1998 and has penned seven more, among them Slaughter in the Sacramento Valley: Poaching and Commercial Market Hunting - Stories and Conversations and Defending our Wildlife Heritage: The Life and Times of a Special Agent. Many of his stories have hilarious moments and hair-raising adventures, others are sad and tragic. They are all about the men and women who work as wildlife conservation officers trying to preserve our natural heritage for future generations.
What: Meet writer Terry Grosz When: Thursday June 10, 2 pm Where: Sundance Bookstore and Music1155 W. Fourth Street #106 Reno, Nevada 89503 (775-786-1188)
The second gathering will be of interest to all the hikers, campers and road-trippers out there. Bob Sumner has written Hiking Nevada's County High Points, a comprehensive driving and hiking guide to the summits of Nevada's 16 counties and state capital, Carson City. From the bristlecone pine-studded ridges of Wheeler Peak in Great Basin National Park to the historic overlook of Mount Davidson above Virginia City, Sumner describes each journey in abundant detail to guide your way. In addition to precise travel instructions, each chapter includes,
camping and lodging locations, a "bonus" peak which can be combined with the county high point, a side trip to a nearby point of interest and historic background for each high point.
What: meet Bob Sumner central Nevada resident, writer, editor, Silver State traveler... When: Tuesday June 15th at 6:30 pm Where: Sundance Bookstore and Music1155 W. Fourth Street #106 Reno, Nevada 89503 (775-786-1188)
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Written by Wild Nevada
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Friday, 28 May 2010 11:39 |
We had the great pleasure of getting to know Adam Bradley during the SWIP Trip – that 501-mile hike along Nevada’s renewable energy line back in April and May. Well, it turns out that for Adam, 501 miles is a relatively short hike.
This Wednesday, he’s giving a talk here in Reno, NV about one of his greatest hiking accomplishments: setting a new speed record for hiking the 2,700-mile Pacific Crest Trail. Last summer, Adam and his friend and co-hiker Scott Williamson beat the old record by 21 hours (held by a trail runner), hiking the whole trail from Mexico to Canada. Adam will talk about their experience and show a documentary that blends video and still images captured en route.
- What: A talk and film by Adam Bradley - Fastpacking the Crest
- When: Wednesday, June 2, 6:30 to 8pm
- Where: Reno REI, 2225 Harvard Way, Reno, NV 89502 ph: 775-828-9411
- Why: The Reno REI store frequently hosts talks, slide shows, and many other events in support of local conservation groups and outdoor enthusiasts. They have long-supported NWP with various projects, most recently by donating raffle items during the Wild & Scenic Environmental Film Festival. We send our thanks to all their great employees!
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Written by Wild Nevada
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Friday, 12 March 2010 04:30 |
Southern Nevadans will have an opportunity to meet Doug Scott, one the nation's most respected wilderness historians, author and advocate, in Las Vegas and Mesquite next week. 
Scott, whose books include "The Enduring Wilderness" and "Our Wilderness: America's Common Ground," will speak at 7 p.m. Tuesday at the Whitney Library, 5175 E. Tropicana Ave. in Las Vegas and at 7 p.m. Wednesday at the Mesquite Community Center, 150 N. Yucca St. in Mesquite. Both events are free and open to the public.
Scott will be discussing the history of wilderness protection in the U.S. and how most often, it's regular citizens who have led the way.
Friends of Gold Butte, in partnership with the Nevada Wilderness Project, has been working long and hard to protect Gold Butte, often called Nevada's "piece of the Grand Canyon puzzle." Many of you have made calls and sent e-mails to the Clark County Commission and the Mesquite City Council in favor of protecting this incredible place. We thank you for your efforts and ask you to keep it up. We know progress can feel slow sometimes, but we're confident that by continuing to speak up for Gold Butte's habitat, unsurpassed cultural resources and for the benefits of better management and protection that we'll be successful.
We look forward to seeing you at Scott's events, where we know he'll inspire you to keep leading the way.
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