Friends of Nevada Wilderness is proud to announce that our December Wild Speaker Series will be presented by Jim Boone of BirdAndHike.com. Come join the discussion about the ecology of desert birds with Jim Boone. The presentation focuses on birds in Gold Butte, but the species and principles are broadly applicable to the southwestern deserts we love to explore. The discussion will include information on how wilderness hikers can help save local birds from the scourge of abandoned mining claim markers that litter our public lands in Nevada. This will be an informative event you won't want to miss!

    

An outdoorsman since before birth, Jim worked a dozen seasons in western National Parks. With his wife Liz, he attended Humboldt State University (BS in Wildlife Management, 1987) and the University of Georgia (Ph.D. in Ecology, 1995). Arriving in Las Vegas in 1995, Jim did ecological research on the Nevada Test Site and began building the BirdAndHike.com website in 2002. Now retired, Jim works on his website and land conservation issues, including the campaigns to protect Basin and Range National Monument (2015) and Gold Butte National Monument (2016), plus the Southern Nevada Open-Pipe Mining Claim Marker Knock-Down Project (ongoing). Jim was recognized by the conservation community in 2015 (Activist of the Year), 2016 with the Trailblazer Award (lifetime service award) and in 2019 with a Special Achievement Award for work on removing abandoned mine markers from public lands.