Mission:

To promote, develop and provide access to world-class outdoor recreation opportunities and resource stewardship to meet the increasing demand and diverse interests of the growing visitor and local populations along the Central Sierra Front.

Vision:
The Sierra Front Recreation and Trails system will be a world-class area-wide seamless network of outdoor recreation opportunities.
Written by Administrator   
Friday, 04 April 2008 15:08
Board of Directors...


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President

Chuck Greene - Chuck is a producer and writer of radio and television documentaries and President of New Wilderness Distribution. He lives in Incline Village and dedicates his energy to supporting Nevada-based groups. He is Secretary of the Nevada Rock Art Foundation and on the Board of the Tahoe Rim Trail Association. He is also helping found new organizations such as the Tahoe Arts Foundation and the Incline Historical Society.





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Treasurer

Mark Kimbrough - Mark has worked at many levels in the outdoor recreation profession. He started at Pyramid Lake for Washoe County Parks transferring to Galena Creek and Davis Creek Park for a total of 7 years. He then moved to Nevada State Parks and enjoyed many other Northern Nevada duty stations. After 23 years, he retired as a District Ranger to take the Executive Director position for the Tahoe Rim Trail Association where he works today. Mark is a resident of Carson City.




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Doug Doolittle - Doug has over 28 years of experience in managing outdoor recreation and currently serves as the Director of Regional Parks and Open Space for Washoe County. He directs all aspects of the planning and management of a comprehensive regional parks system that encompasses over 7,000 acres of open space and 70 developed parks that include regional parks, neighborhood parks, community buildings, golf courses, aquatic facilities, and many more venues. Prior to Washoe County, he worked for over 20 years with the Incline Village General Improvement District including managing many major capital improvement recreation projects. He brings a wealth of experience in long-range park planning, recreation program development, and capital project management, among many other skills, to the Sierra Front Recreation Coalition.




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Jacques Etchegoyhen - Jacques, before creating Minden-based Terra Firma Associates, was the Nevada State Director for the American Land Conservancy for two years and had been the manager of one of the oldest ranches in Nevada for over 20 years. Among his many honors, the Governor of Nevada in 1992 and 1996 appointed him to the State Land Use Planning Council. He was a planning commissioner in Douglas County from 1990-1994, and was elected to the county commission in 1994, 1998 and 2002, serving as chairman for four years. He was appointed by the Secretary of Interior to the Northwest Resource Advisory Council in 1998, and elected chairman in October, 2000. Jacques and his wife Cris, call the Eastern Sierra, from Minden to Lone Pine, home.




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Roger Moellendorf - Roger has been the Parks and Recreation Director for Carson City since 2004. Also bringing a wealth of recreation expertise to the Board, Roger worked for over 21 years for the City of Green River, Wyoming, sixteen years as the Director of Parks and Recreation and five years as the Parks Supervisor. Roger served as City Arborist for Fremont Nebraska from 1978 to 1983. Roger is married to Donnie and has three children who are all mostly grown and mostly out of the house.




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Dave Morrow - Currently serving as the Administrator for the Nevada Division of State Parks, Dave has been involved in natural resource and outdoor recreation management for over thirty years. As a boy, he helped his parents and grandparents operate a private lodge and campground. With degrees in park and public administration, Dave began his career with the San Diego County Camp Commission. Dave then went to work for Utah State Parks and spent thirty years working in, and managing, some of Utah's most significant state parks. In 2003, he retired from Utah State Parks as the Assistant Director to move to Nevada.




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Gary Schiff - From 1999 to August 2007, Gary served as District Ranger on the Carson Ranger District of the Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest. The District surrounds the eastern side of the Lake Tahoe Basin and includes parts of eight counties in California and Nevada. Gary and his staff made trail and trailhead planning a key priority. They forged numerous partnerships in developing a host of new opportunities. Prior to this assignment Gary worked for the Forest Service in the Taos, New Mexico area. He and his wife Laurel have three children who are often forced to hike with the family. Gary recently resigned from the Board of Sierra Front and left his position as District Ranger to take a position with the Forest Service in Washington, D.C. We are extremely grateful for his many years of support and leadership and wish Gary and his family the best of luck on the East Coast.




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Craig Schriber - As a life-long outdoorsman and 25-year resident of northern Nevada, Craig has been involved in area recreation and access for many years. In the 1990s he was a managing partner of Sierra Mountaineer retail stores and was a mountaineering instructor at UNR. He has served on the Boards of EDAWN, WIN, and the Rotary Club of Reno - Central. Currently, he is a Realtor with Dickson Realty in Reno, he serves on the Lieutenant Governor's Truckee River Steering Committee (NV Commission on Tourism), and is a Board member of the Nevada Land Conservancy and the Truckee River Foundation. He and his wife Amy are introducing their baby boy to the beauty of the Sierra.




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Steve Teshara - Steve has been active in Lake Tahoe planning, transportation, recreation and community issues for over 25 years. He is currently Executive Director of the North Lake Tahoe Resort Association and the North Lake Tahoe Chamber of Commerce. Steve serves as the At-Large Member of the Board of Directors of the Tahoe Transportation District and is one of three Co-Chairs of the Lake Tahoe Transportation and Water Quality Coalition. As one of the newest SFRC Board members, Steve is honored to have the opportunity to work with an outstanding group of Board colleagues who have dedicated significant time and professional expertise in support of recreation and stewardship in our region of the magnificent Sierra Nevada range. Steve is a strong advocate of the partnerships necessary to accomplish the mission of the Sierra Front Recreation Coalition.