March 1, 2000
Lee Vining Office of the Mono Lake Committee At Full Staff Levels
Press Contact:
Geoff McQuilkin, Executive Director
Mono Lake Committee
(760) 647-6595
For Immediate Release
For the first time in a while the Mono Lake Committee is working with a full staff.
Recent additions to the policy team and to the membership office have given the Committee a much-needed boost. According to Eastern Sierra Policy Director, Heidi Hopkins, “Now we can proceed with important projects that have been sitting on the back burner.”
New to the policy team are Lisa Cutting and Craig Roecker. They have both been hired to take on different responsibilities that were previously handled by Kay Ogden, the former Marketing Director. Lisa will be taking on the newly formed position of Environmental Resource Coordinator. Part of her task will be to develop comprehensive resource management for the entire Mono Basin ecosystem. Craig will step into another new spot: Mono County Outreach Coordinator. He will help the Committee to share its policies and programs with the broader Mono County community.
The membership department welcomes Brett Pyle as it’s new Membership Coordinator, replacing Anna Christensen who is moving on to other pursuits. Anna will be sorely missed, but the Committee is excited about the addition of Brett to the team.
Lisa Cutting has returned to the Mono Lake Committee after her internship here last summer. She has a degree in Environmental Analysis and Design from the University of California at Irvine and has recently begun work on her graduate program in Community Development at the University of California at Davis. Her focus is community-based environmental protection with an emphasis on watersheds. She also has seventeen years of business management experience. Her personal interests include fly fishing and hiking.
Craig Roecker has degrees in Environmental Studies and Economics from the University of California at Santa Cruz. He did graduate work at the University of Wisconsin - Madison where he studied Public Policy and Planning. Policy experience includes a published study of the Wisconsin Recycling Market Development Board. He has nineteen years of business experience - much of it in the Eastern Sierra. He and his family have lived in Mammoth Lakes since 1985.
Brett Pyle has a B.S. in Geology from The University of Texas and also spent seven years teaching middle school science in Houston, TX. He moved to Lee Vining in 1997 and has worked for the Forest Service for the past 2 1/2 years at the Mono Basin Scenic Area Visitor Center and at the Bridgeport Ranger Station. He is excited to be working for the Committee and to be a permanent resident of the Mono Basin.
With a full staff, the Mono Lake Committee looks forward to entering the new millennium with more energy and drive to protect the Mono Basin Ecosystem than ever.
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The text of this press release may be downloaded from www.monolake.org/press
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