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Former Great Basin Resource Watch board member Bernice Lalo (left) with the late Mary Dann  (center) and sister Carrie Dann, at the culturally significant Mt. Tenabo in Crescent Valley, ground zero for new mining exploration.

Great Basin Resource Watch is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization, founded in 1994 by a coalition of environmental, Native American and scientific community representatives.  We are a regional environmental justice organization dedicated to protecting the health and well being of the land, air, water, wildlife, and human communities of the Great Basin from the adverse effects of resource extraction and use.

GBRW's headquarters are in Reno, Nevada. We inform communities about mining impacts through reports and educational materials. We review mine proposals, permits and expansions in Nevada and California, and we recommend policy solutions to reduce toxic emissions, protect our water resources and preserve human and wildlife habitat.



Board of Directors
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Chair 

Glenn Miller, Ph.D
Treasurer

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Aimee Boulanger

Aimee Boulanger is a consultant providing nonprofit organizations program and management support services. She also coordinates the Washington State Chapter of the Collaborative on Health and the Environment, a diverse network of scientists, researchers, healthcare professionals, nonprofit advocates, government service staff and citizens sharing a common concern about links between human health and the environment.

Aimee has worked as Program Director for the Institute for Children's Environmental Health and Executive Director for Women's Voices for the Earth, both national organizations reducing the environmental causes of human illness and reproductive harm.  She has also worked as Field Director for the Mineral Policy Center (now called EarthWorks), supporting communities in the western US and around the globe to reduce the negative impacts of mining. Aimee also serves on the board of directors for Women’s Voices for the Earth in Montana, and the Western Mining Action Project in Colorado.  She holds a B.A. in Environmental Studies and Politics from Mount Holyoke College.


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Board meeting Sept 16, 2009

 
Staff

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John Hadder
Director
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John E. Hadder is currently the Director for Great Basin Research Watch.  His academic background is in physical chemistry with a MS from the University of Cincinnati.  In 1991 he first visited the Nevada Test Site and became involved with work around nuclear issues in Nevada.  Since that time he has been applying his knowledge of chemistry and science to public policy and environmental issues.

A regular at Nevada Test Site gatherings, John became a part of the ongoing organizing cadre, and was hired by Citizen Alert in 1997.  While on staff he created Citizen Alert’s Nuclear Issues Education Program.  He was also the Northern Nevada Coordinator, developing local programs and connecting with regional and national campaigns until 2006.

Over the years he has worked in areas of community planning, non-violence and peace work, energy, sustainable transportation, indigenous rights, and general environmental protection.  He has developed skills in activism and organizing, and spent time traveling within the Great Basin learning about the land and its people.

John also teaches chemistry at Truckee Meadows Community College.  He serves on the board of directors for the Alliance for Nuclear Accountability, and HOME (Healing Ourselves and Mother Earth).

He is also a thespian, acting, writing, and directing projects with Theoretical Theatre, and also works with the Nevada Shakespeare Company. In addition, he loves cycling on the open road.


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Jon Cheek
Outreach/Program Coordinator
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Jon obtained his M.S. degree in Geography in 2009 from the University of Nevada, Reno where he focused his studies in wildfire ecology, forest ecology, and climatology of the Great Basin, and received his B.S. degree in Environmental Science in 2003 from The Evergreen State College in Olympia, WA where he focused his studies in hydrology and freshwater ecology.  He has experience working on various projects related to fisheries biology, stream ecology, water quality, and geomorphology assessments throughout the Pacific Northwest.  His work experience and education has enhanced his interest in preventing negative impacts of land use and resource extraction on ecosystems, hydrologic processes, and communities.

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Susan Juetten
Publications/Outreach Coordinator
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This is Susan's second go-around working for Great Basin Resource Watch, having been with us as political director in 2003 and 2004. Susan has worked for several conservation groups, including the Nevada Wilderness Coalition. She holds a M.A. in Environment and Community from Antioch University in Seattle.  Her leisure occupations include hiking and kayaking in the Sierra and surroundings as often as possible, and restoring her property in Washoe Valley to be wildlife-friendly.


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Patrick Freeze
Technical and Policy Intern
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An Environmental Science senior at the University of Nevada, Patrick provides research, outreach, and natural resource project monitoring support for GBRW. Born and raised in a small farming community in central Texas, his agricultural background attributes to his interest in environmental science, and environmental impacts on rural communities.  Patrick has received his college’s primary scholarship award from the College of Agriculture Biotechnology and Natural Resources and earned an opportunity to study environmental policy reform in Ghana during the summer of 2010.  His future goals include obtaining a M.S. degree in Natural Resource Management at either the University of California or the University of Alaska.

 
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, NV 89503

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