Speaker Contacts: Forest Service Rep. (Phil Sexton has left) Big Bend Visitors Center (www.fs.fed.us/r5/tahoe/recreation/big_bend/) - 530.426.3609, 530 305.2241 psexton@fs.fed.us $70-140 (Call to get rate) Hank Meals, co-author, Yuba Trails. Nevada City - (530) 470-0632 Don Lane - Forest Service Tahoe Basin Management Unit - S. Lake Tahoe (530) 543-2600 dlane@fs.fed.us Don Machholz - Astronomer - , Colfax, CA 530-346-8963, DonM353259@aol.com Tahoe Environmental Research Center (terc.ucdavis.edu) - (775) 881-7560 (Tahoe lab, Incline Village, NV), They have several visitor options: 1. Talk at CTL, 2. Boat ride and talk from Tahoe City, 3. Visit to Environmental Center at Incline Village. Education and Outreach Coordinator- Heather Segale, hmsegale@ucdavis.edu (775) 881-7562 Research boat tours/rides at Tahoe City Marina - captain Brant Allen at 775-881-7560, ext. 7465. Volunteer Coordinator - Tour Bookings- Jessie Hersher, jehersher@ucdavis.edu (775) 881-7566   Sterling Warr-Pryer - Geologist - Former Sierra College Instructor - 530-470-0221 Nevada City, CA Don Rivenes - Birding - Sierra Foothills Audibon - 530-477-7502 Nevada City, CA - rivenes@infostations.com John O'Donnell nodjod@wi.rr.com - Birding Karen Wiese - Wildflowers - 530-346-7131 Chicago Park CA, kwildoak@aol.com Author of Sierra Nevada Wildflowers REI Reno - David Hess - (775) 828-9090 - dhess@rei.com Donner Memorial State Park Information Center & Emigrant Trail Museum - 530-582-7892 Richard Boyden's Curriculum Research Page for the CTL Outdoor Ed Program has a lot of good information. Return to Clair Tappaan last updated 8 May 2010