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Mount Rainier National Park honors dedicated volunteers

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By Jeffrey P. Mayor | The News Tribune | August 28, 2008

Earlier this month, the park staff held its annual volunteer picnic to honor those who have given their time to the park. In particular, the park recognized the following individuals for reaching milestones in their volunteer service, according to park volunteer coordinator Kevin Bacher:

500 hours: Elizabeth Beaulieu (since 2006), assisting with stream surveys and river research; Hank and Judy Bernard (since 2006), as campground hosts and meadow rovers; Jack Greene (since 2007), working as an interpreter, educator and park planner; Mary Heskett (2008), working as a cultural resource assistant in the curatorial library; Brian McDonald (2008), working as a Geologist-in-Parks intern at Paradise; Marcy Partridge (since 2007), working as a cultural resource assistant in the curatorial library; and Helen Young (2008), as an interpreter at Paradise and Longmire through the Student Conservation Association.

 

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Summer Vacation
written by Adam Duchek , September 16, 2008
In the middle of August I traveled from my SCA Firemon crew in Coeur d' Alene, Idaho to Mt. Rainier to see the park. When I got there I asked the Park Ranger if there was an SCA working at the park? They sent me to Longmire to visit with Jill Baum. Once I was there I got to stay in SCA housing and hangout with the restoration crew. One of the crew members named Libby took me and her Youth Conservation Crew to Kautz Creek to do some wilderness re-construction and recontouring of the landscape. Most of the damage that I helped to repair was caused by bull dozers that were used to relocate the creek to its original loction. This kind of work was very enlightening and fun. It allowed my interests in conservation work become real with a hands-on activity in the park.

Thank you,
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