Staff Profiles

 Becoming an Outdoors Woman in New Mexico

Last Updated On: 07/01/2008

 

We would like to thank the Becoming an Outdoor Woman workshop instructors for their time, energy,  and expertise that ensures the success of this program.   They are all volunteers.   Without their dedication and the generosity of our contributors, this opportunity would not be available  to the women of New Mexico. 

Archery  and  Bowhunting

               Jolene Peacock-Kinsey - Jolene is a native of New Mexico originally from Anthony, New Mexico and now resides in Portales were she works for Peacock Brothers.  She has been married for 11 years and has two children, ages 2 and 4.  She began shooting sports early on in 4-H with her mom, Debra Peacock (former archery instructor) as her primary teacher throughout.  She started shooting a bow in her early teens and has shot at various 3d tournaments and indoor leagues.  she was also involved in various rifle competitions and enjoys shooting sports at  any opportunity.  Joelene enjoys teaching her 4 year old son how to shoot hi compound bow and is anxious to teach her daughter.  She loves the lake - any lake, boating, jet skiing and fishing.  She loves to see the excitement in someone's eyes when they have taken a "leap" and shot a bow or firearms for the first time and then can't wait until they can do it again.  Jolene is a BOW veteran.  This is her first NM-BOW as an instructor.

            Casey Peacock - I started shooting when I was a senior in high school while Lucky (my husband) and i were dating.  Since that time I have been shooting when I can.  I have hunted a little bit with my bow.  My husband and I and both of our kids have shot at one time or another.  We participate in a n indoor league and 3-D outdoor shoots when we have the time.  I was active in 4-H and FFA when I was in school and my boys are continuing the family tradition.  This keeps us busy and on the go with meetings and show animals plus school events.    I enjoy shooting and the outdoors and working with my animals.  I am currently employted as a staff writer for the Portales News Tribune and cover a variety of community events, but my heart is passionate about the agriculture industry.  Casey is a BOW veteran.  This is her first NM-BOW as an instructor.

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Backpacking

              Ron Lautenbach – Ron is retired from academic life as a professor of Mathematics and Economics; and from corporate life in aerospace. He currently volunteers with teenagers and senior citizens. He teaches rock climbing and desert survival to youth; and drives senior citizens on tours.

Ron is an experienced mountaineer who has climbed on every continent except Africa. He has spoken internationally on mountaineering; and has appeared on numerous documentaries. He is currently writing a book on "Humor In Successful Mountaineering". 

Ron believes mankind never conquers a mountain because nature is more powerful than anyone. He knows nature invites each one of us to share experiences no matter how easy or difficult the adventure. He spends a lot of time and energy encouraging people of all ages, all shapes, and all attitudes to explore nature in its wonderful environment.

Ron's method of teaching is extremely positive because of his passion for the outdoor experiential elegance. He loves to assist people in enhancing their appreciation of "coming out" into the natural part of the universe.  This is his third NM-BOW as an instructor. 

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Basic Fishing

            Kathryn Tarpley Kite Kathryn is a native New Mexican, raised at Vaughn but spend over 25 years at Eagle Nest raising a family and fishing.  She started her career with the US Postal Service in Eagle Nest and retired in Albuquerque in 1998.  Kathryn, one of 5 daughters of Lake Tarpley, learned to fish at age 3 at Eagle Nest where her parents had a summer cabin.  A writer, her articles have been featured in New Mexico Magazine, National Woolgrower, Sangre de Cristo Chronicle and New Mexico Fishing Monthly.  As her second career, she is a manager for AFLAC supplemental insurance, “the duck company” in Albuquerque.   She has been a NM-BOW instructor since the first one in 1995.

            Betty Lake Tarpley Ansley Betty is one of five sisters raised in Vaughn, NM and learned to fish at a early age.  "Dad always wanted a boy but got all girls so he just taught us all how to hunt and fish"  Betty is an accomplished horse woman and drives an antique 1800's surrey.  She trains surrey horses and is seen each year at the State Fair Parade.  Usually you can see the governor in her surrey in the parade.  This year she says she will be carrying the AFLAC duck as she has just become an agent for AFLAC.  This is her fourth BOW. 

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Basic Map and Compass

            Harold Thompson - Harold has been spending time in the mountains of New Mexico since his firs deer hunt in 1963.  He has used maps and a compass in his hunting, backpacking and during his time in the army.  He assisted the map and compass class for a few years.  This is Harold's first NM-BOW as an instructor.

            Erv Copus - Former engineer and NRA member Erv Corpus has been hunting, fishing, and exploring New Mexico since 1975.  Having taken over 20 big game animals, he is also well versed in the art of game processing and wild game cooking.  Erv now devotes much of his time to wilderness day hiking in the Sandia Mountains.  This is Erv's first NM-BOW.

            Sue Copus - Susan is an "exited the game early" engineer currently engaged in craft hobbies using natural materials.  An active outdoors woman in New Mexico since 1985 and BOW veteran, Sue likes camping, hiking, kayaking, and rock hunting.  She has also hunted in New Mexico and took a 6x6 bull elk in 1990.  This is Sue's first NM-BOW as an instructor.

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Basic Rifle Skills and Introduction to Firearms and Firearms Safety

            Dennee Peterson  Dennee started rifle shooting at age six when her dad let her rest the rifle on a box.  She has been a smallbore rifle competitor ever since.  She won the National Women's Anysight Championships, California State Championships and several anysight  and women's championships in Arizona, New Mexico, California, Utah and Washington. Dennee coached the University of Arizona rifle club team and, for ten years, the junior rifle team at the local gun club in Tucson, these juniors came home as national and state champions.  She also served as a training counselor, teaching others to be shooting coaches.  She also shoots pistol matches for fun and learned to shoot shotgun at the Arizona Outdoors Woman workshop.  For the last eleven years she has been executive director of the second largest smallbore rifle match in the country.  March 2006 was the 48th anniversary of the Western Wildcats match.  She has taught five workshops in the Arizona Outdoor Woman  program.   This is Denny’s eleventh BOW workshop in New Mexico.

            Billy Meek Billy started shooting before he was a teenager at the West End Gun Club in Upland, California, where the range was just down the street from his house.  He started competing in smallbore rifle, but changed to high power rifle where there were no little girls who could beat him – ask him about Mary Sparling and Mary Lou Adler.  He shot his first international competition in high power rifle when he was 19 years old.  He came back to smallbore in the 1980's, where he won national and international events such as the World Cup and other world championships.  He competed in the 1992 and 1996 Olympics in Barcelona and Atlanta.  Through the years he's competed and coached in high power and smallbore rifle events throughout the world.  He's also getting used to little girls occasionally beating him in rifle events.  In 2003 he coached the United States Palma Team (long range high power rifle) to a silver medal in Great Britain.  This is his seventh NM-BOW.

            Pat Mathis Pat is a  New Mexico native and an NMSU graduate in Wildlife and Range science. Employed by NM Dept. of Game and Fish for the last 18 years, he is currently the Department's SW area game manager and habitat specialist. Has been a High Risk Firearms instructor for the Department for 13 years.  Pat has also enjoyed the shooting sports all his life and competes in IPSC and IDPA  shooting disciplines. He is an avid outdoorsman who enjoys hunting, hiking and roving the deserts of the southwest with his wife Chris.  This is Pat's third New Mexico BOW.

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Camp Skills and Outdoor Cooking (Not offered in 2008)

            Bob and Louise Sexton Bob grew up on a livestock ranch in northern California and spent a lot of time on camping trips that he remembers more as “survival exercises”.  He learned that they put walls and roofs on kitchens to kept he wind and rain from putting the fire out.  Once these lessons were learned, his idea of camping hasn’t changed much in 40 years.  He retired from the Wyoming Game and Fish Department in 1984, has been a Wyoming hunter education instructor for 38 years and a New Mexico instructor for 14.  He is a big game hunter, police revolver competitor and five times Wyoming State Champion.  Bob is a Wyoming 4-H shooting sports leader, member of the Shooting Sports Development Committee, member of the 4-H Leader Training Team and Chairman of the Wyoming State 4-H Foundation Board.  He also served 10 years as Chief Hunting Instructor for the NRA Whittington Center Adventure Camp.

            Louise was born and raised in California but calls Wyoming home since 1955.  They have four children and eight grandchildren.  She is a retired pistol competitor and past member of the Wyoming “Governors 20”.  Louise gave up hunting after a 20 degree below zero whitetail hunt several years ago.  She enjoys quilting and does volunteer work at the Senior Center, local hospital and blood bank.  She has been a BOW instructor for five years, chief cook for the Wyoming 4-H Shooting Sports Camp for four years and Camp Skills Instructor for the NRA-Whittington Adventure Camp for two years. She and Bob enjoy square dancing.  Louise says cooking has always been a necessity not a hobby but she does enjoy outdoor cooking and experimenting with a Dutch Oven.

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Car Camping NM State Parks

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Creative Gourds

           Leilani McGranahan Leiani is a native of New Mexico and you might call her a native of BOW.   Ever since she attended the very first BOW with her best friend Sandy, she was hooked and has faithfully attended every year.   Leilani enjoys the outdoors and hunting and has learned a lot from the BOW program.  Although her degree and career are in accounting she has been an avid crafter since she was a youngster.   While her specialty is rubberstamping she enjoys all types of crafts and is looking forward to showing you what you can do with gourds.  This is her third year as a BOW instructor, and her first year as the full fledged Coordinator of the New Mexico BOW Program.

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Dutch Oven Cooking

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Field Dressing Big Game

            Connie Chapin – Connie has been a big game hunter for the past fifteen years.   With a background in veterinary medicine and college classes in meat processing, she has learned numerous techniques in field dressing animals.  Connie has been a long time participant but this is her second NM-BOW as an instructor.

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Fly Fishing, Fly Tying 

            Beverly Pelzl - Beverly is a Federation of fly fishers certified casting instructor.  She has taught at the Gary Borger Fly Fishing Schools at Vermejo Park, Los Pinos Fly Fishing and Fly Casting Schools, and She Fishes classes in Albuquerque, NM.  She and her husband Bob Filmed the salt-water portion of the instructional video "Fundamentals of Fly Fishing" by Gary Borger.  She is employed as an Operating Room nurse at an Albuquerque hospital and is a Registered Nurse First Assistant.

 

            Bob Pelzl - Bob has taught fly fishing and Fly tying for over thirty years.  He has been a demonstration tier at the Federation of Fly Fishers (FFF) International Conclaves , has published articles in "fly Fishing the West" and "Fly Fisherman" magazines, and teaches fly tying for th Los Pinos Fly Shop in Albuquerque.  He and his wife Beverly have taught fly fishing for the Gary Borger Schools at Vermejo Park Ranch and the Los Pinos Fly Shop, and have conducted clinics for organizations such as She Fishes and New Mexico Trout.  Bob is also a FFF Certified  Casting instructor.  He is retired from the Air Force Research laboratory where he worked as a mathematician.

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Geology  (Not offered in 2008)

            Dr. Virginia McLemore Ginger is the senior economic geologist at the New Mexico Bureau of Geology and Mineral Resources, a division of NM Institute of Mining and Technology.  She has earned degrees at NM Tech and UTEP and has been employed by NM Tech since 1980.  Just a few of her specialties and interests include all aspects of the mineral resources in New Mexico, the geology of the State Parks and the geology and history of mining districts in New Mexico.

Ginger serves on numerous professional society committees and authored over 23 articles published in state and national professional journals.  She is the database manager of the Uranium Library and NURE data (National Uranium Resource Evaluation) database and also the computerized inventory on existing abandoned, inactive, and active mines and mills throughout New Mexico.

But it’s not all work with Ginger in her spare time (when she makes it!) she works with the American Cancer Society, the NM Shooting Sports Association, 4-H Shooting Sports, the National Rifle Association as a Certified Coach and Instructor, NMDG&F as a volunteer Hunter Education instructor, and is the Civilian Marksmanship Program State Junior Director for NM.

She is also an active (and hard to beat) rifle competitor herself.  She set the National Record for Women's Team 300 yd High Power Rifle 1989, she's a member of the Women's International Randall Team (smallbore rifle) for the years 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, a member of the Dewar Team in 2001, and a member of the Women's International Goodwill Randall Team to England in 2001.  She coached the winning Whistler Boy Smallbore Rifle Team in1998 at the National Matches in Camp Perry, Ohio.

Awards for her hard work include the NMSSA Presidents Award in 1988, the NMSSA Distinguished Coach Award in 1994 and the  4H Socorro County Appreciation award in 2000.  This is Ginger’s fourth BOW as an instructor.

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GPS Navigation and Global Positioning Systems

            Karen Denison Karen Denison is better known as a New Mexico fly fishing instructor, but has spent years practicing her off-trail navigational skills in pursuit of backcountry skiing, fishing, backpacking, the sport of orienteering and the GPS-based game of geocaching. She is delighted to share her practical experience.  She has been a NM-BOW instructor since 1998.

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Handgun Shooting Basics

            Pat Mathis - Works for the Las Cruces Department of Game and Fish and is a staunch supporter of the NM-BOW program.

            Chris Mathis - is a teacher in Las Cruces and an avid shooter.  She has helped with previous year's rifle and Pistol classes.

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Introduction to Defensive Shooting

            Steve Head – Steve is a part time instructor for Firearms Training Consultants of Albuquerque and an NRA certified instructor for Pistol and Personal Protection.  He is also an NRA and USPSA certified range officer.  He has been a NM-BOW instructor since 1997.

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Muzzleloading Rifle & Pistol

            John Glenn - John is an NMLRA instructor and long time muzzleloading enthusiast.  He is also certified in NRA rifle, pistol, shotgun and personal protection as well as volunteering for the NM Dept. of Game and fish as a Hunter Education instructor.  This is his fourth NM-BOW,

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Nature Photography

            Wes Underwood - Wes is a graduate of Texas Tech University in Lubbock, Texas with a M.S. in Agriculture Education and a minor in Mass communication and is currently the Photography coordinator at Souther Plains College in Levelland, Texas.

            Underwood's love for the outdoors comes thru very clear in the type of photography that he does, an avid outdoorsman he finds no greater pleasure then to be be on a site to shoot as the sun breaks in the morning or sets in the evening.

            Underwood has been published in many national magazines including The Cattleman, SXaddelbaron, The Agriculturist and others.  Underwood's use of natural light to enhance photography is a trademark of his imagery.  Underwood is currently working on a major project of photographing lost and forgotten cemeteries across the Southwest; so far he has shot over 5000 images on the subject and adds to it constantly.  This is his first NM-BOW as an instructor.

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New Mexico Wild Flowers

            Sarah Wood - Sarah Wood grew up in Los Alamos where took the outdoors and occasional explosions for granted.  She studied plant ecology and botany at New Mexico State university, and was lucky enough to get jobs doing research outdoors all around New Mexico as well as Mexico.  She is now an education outreach coordinator for northwestern New Mexico State Parks.

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The Naturalist's Journal   (Not offered in 2008)

            Colleen Welch Colleen has a strong background in education including teaching in Colorado, developing curriculum for the Science Discovery Program at UC-Boulder.  As a naturalist Colleen wrote the arthropod chapter for the County’s Naturalist Training Manual and trained new naturalists.  In Alaska in 1995, Colleen presented educational programs at the Imaginarium Science Museum and taught a summer program at a Montessori School  in Anchorage.  Back in Colorado in 1995, she established a science enrichment business that offered inquiry-based and hands-on science programs to both private and public schools In Grand Valley.  She also established the first family science programming at a science museum in Grand Junction, CO.  Colleen also was the Naturalist/Interpreter for the Colorado River State Parks for two seasons.  This probably sounds like a lot and it was.  When the opportunity to work at one job in environmental education opened up, she decided to move again—to New Mexico.

Colleen accepted the Assistant Coordinator’s position in Santa Fe with the New Mexico Department of Game and Fish.  In addition to writing and producing original educational materials for teachers, she also creates educational wildlife trunks that educators can check out.  Further programs that Colleen is involved in developing and/or presenting for New Mexico’s educators, students and the public include the Project WILD/Aquatic WILD, Advanced WILD Natural History Weekends, Children’s Water Festivals, Watershed Watch statewide river monitoring program, Fishing Clinics for schools and the community, Aquatic Resource Investigations (ARI), Presentations at events such as the annual Crane Festival at the Bosque del Apache, Becoming An Outdoors Woman.  Colleen is an active Board Member for the New Mexico Science Teachers Association and is a member of the New Mexico Environmental Education Association and the National Association for Interpretation.

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Nature Painting  (Not offered in 2008)

            Clarissa Stiger – Clarissa was raised in Colorado and studied art at Fort Lewis College. From there she went to the Colorado Institute of Art in Denver and graduated with an associate degree in art and advertising design. In a move to San Diego, California she  worked as a computer colorist for the Ted Turner Network.  Clarissa is now an art instructor for the El Paso Art Association. She is an avid camper and feels very blessed  to have a passion for both art and the great out of doors. This is her fith NM-BOW as an instructor.

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Self-Defense for Outdoor Women

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Shotgunning for the Beginner

              Rink Somerday Rink has been the Program Coordinator for the Chihuahuan Desert Nature Park in Las Cruces since 2003.  Before that she worked for a nature center and raptor rehabilitation center in Colorado.  In her spare time, she does taxes for H&R Block and hunts with a .50 caliber flintlock!  She has also instructed shooting sports, survival and orienteering in the Colorado BOW workshop for five years.  This is her third NM-BOW.

            Dawn Singleton - Dawn just turned 47 and found out that she is going to ge a grandmom for the first time.  Her family opened a gun shop over 30 years ago that her husband now runs.  Dawn has been married for 24 years in May and has 3 children.  Two girls, 23 and 20, and a 17 year old son.  She is an avid outdoors woman and hunter who also enjoys fishing and spending time with the one she loves.  She and her family have been hunting wit Rink foor years.  This is dawn's first NM-BOW

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Survival  Skills

            Larry Foster Larry is an NRA rifle instructor and Class C certified rifle coach, hunter education instructor, chief rifle instructor for NM 4-H state training team and is also an NRA certified instructor in pistol, shotgun and muzzleloader, an NRA Training Counselor and NM Concealed Carry instructor .  He served as Junior Shooting  Executive Officer and then president for the NM Shooting Sports Association.  He has been the State Director for the Youth Hunter Education Challenge since it’s inception in 1991.  He also teaches hunter education in Las Cruces.  He is an active hunter.  He has instructed in every BOW workshop in New Mexico in Rifle Marksmanship or Survival Skills.

            Coralie CarrierCoralie is an instructor for New Mexico hunter education, an NRA rifle, pistol, shotgun, personal protection instructor, NRA Training Counselor, a National Muzzleloading Rifle Association instructor and a NM Concealed Carry instructor.  She has taught survival and marksmanship in BOW workshops in Colorado and Arizona.  She enjoys hunting, competitive shooting and teaching.  Coralie was the coordinator for NM-BOW since the first one in 1995 and now enjoys just being an instructor and consultant..

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Talk to the Animals

            Ed Sceery – Ed has been an avid outdoorsman all his life.  He holds a doctorate in Animal Science from NMSU and has taught at several universities.  His business activities include wildlife research and the development of the finest quality professional hunting products available.

Widely recognized for his skills as a hunter and a researcher, Ed spends many hours in the field every year tracking, recording and studying how animals communicate and is considered a foremost authority on elk, deer and coyote vocalization.  He has been the president and owner of Sceery Outdoors since 1978 when he founded the company.  He has been a NM-BOW instructor since 1995.

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Tracking and Sign Cutting

            Charlie Pirtle Charlie retired from the U.S. Border Patrol in 1985 after 25 years of service.  His career apprehensions while on duty were 28,880 aliens, approximately 12,000 of whom were apprehended by utilizing tracking skills and techniques.  He has been a life long big game hunter.  While with the Border Patrol National Pistol Team he earned the Distinguished Pistol badge in Bullseye and Police Combat as well as membership in the 2600 Club and 1480 Club respectively.  Since 1998 he has taught tracking skills for the State Department’s Anti Terrorism Program. Charlie has been a NM-BOW instructor since 1995.

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What Is All That Stuff Under the Car Hood?  (Not offered in 2008)

            Ted Schreier – Transplanted Californian.  Logistics Chief of NM-MRC.  Previously in the Car Parts business for nearly 20 years.  His family’s passion has been cars – from design to racing.  He has been working on cars since he was young, anything from rebuilding all the engines in his school’s auto shop to repairing his “Bug.”  While in the parts business he became known as the “go to guy” for help.  He has had customers who when they started did not know how to open the hood or change a windshield wiper on their car.  He has helped many stranded motorist and has learned the common mistakes people make about their cars.  He looks forward to sharing his knowledge with people who want to learn. 

             Felecia Schreier – Native New Mexican and married to that “car guy” for 26 years.  When first married she was given a piece of advice by her mother-in-law and that was “learn about cars” or the marriage won’t last.  Earlier in high school she participated in the “Powder Puff Derby,” a program to teach girls about cars, and has built on that knowledge with hands on experience.  She has been up to her neck working with her husband on cars, including cars she rebuilt and drove for years.  Most times she has found she usually knows more about cars than the guys trying to “help” her.

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Wild Game Sausage Making

            Willard Dunlap - Willard started making sausage and cured meats at an early age. He was the oldest of 9 kids, so he was selected to help his Grandmother with meat curing.  He helped her prepare meat when they lived on the farm and processed their own pigs, cows, chickens, ducks and geese etc. He began his hunting career at about age 10 but since he wasn't allowed to carry a rifle until he was 14, his job was to carry the game out and take care of it so it wouldn't spoil.  Today, he is a New Mexico Hunter Education instructor who enjoys teaching adding his expertise about meat curing.  He often treats the students to jerky or sausage to encourage proper care and respect of wild game.

For more than 21 years he has prepared meat in large smoke houses to small back yard smokers and barbecues and he knows that proper care of the meat in the field is the most important step in making delicious sausage and jerky. Willlard has addressed field care of game by writing a booklet "Now the Work Begins".  The booklet is about 50% pictorial and covers skinning an elk and deboning it in the field.  This booklet will be available at the BOW Store.  Some of the recipes in his handout came from his Grandmother and Mother.  He has been a BOW instructor since 2000

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Wilderness Cooking in Foil

            Marguerite "Margee" Kimball-King Margee was raised in a family that enjoyed scouting and camping as one of the main activities from youth into adulthood.  Her brothers and herself completed the highest achievement levels in scouting and she has passed on these traditions by participating actively with her own son.

She has always been fascinated by the outdoors and outdoor activities.  She participated in programs offered at Philmont Scout Ranch and several Girl Scout camps about wilderness, "mountain man" and "pioneering" skills and later participated in military survival programs offered through her high school and college ROTC programs.  Since college, she has spent many weekends exploring the less populated parts of southern New Mexico.  She continues to participate in several formal programs and augments them with individual reading and research but she feels that having fun is important too.  Now as "Nana" to her granddaughter, she is sharing these skills and wonder for the outdoors.  This is her third NM-BOW as an instructor.

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Wilderness First Aid I and II  (Not offered in 2008)

            Carl Weil has passed both the National Registry EMT and first responder exams. His has also been certificated as; EMT-IV/MAST, Colorado Instructor-Coordinator with a National Wilderness Instructor designation. Carl started his EMT career in 1972. He grew up in the Colorado mountains with a family ranch and guide service. He began working with Search and Rescue units in 1959, and started teaching First Aid to Ski Patrollers in 1967. He has been a Trip Medic on numerous treks, including being a Medic and Guide on a Mt. Everest expedition in 1991. He brings practical outdoor experience to the classroom. His emergency medical experience includes working in Denver General's Emergency Department to starting and operating a rural ambulance service. Carl hold training certificates from many sources and has served on the Colorado First Responder and the Wilderness Medical Society PETSAC working committees. He has taught at many schools, universities, local and national conferences, as well as for the USMC and Air Force.  This is Carl’s third NM-BOW.

           Robert Grossiant - Robert is also a wilderness first aid instructor.  He is 39 and a  former marine wilderness EMT and CPR instructor. He has 2 children and is a health industry security specialist. He has also worked with Carl on various rifle and pistol class in Colorado.   This is Robert’s second NM-BOW.

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Wildlife Identification

            Clint Henson - Clint was born and raised a ranch kid in Colorado, then transplanted to Capitan, New Mexico as a teenager.  Clint was an exchange student in the Republic of South Africa in 1987 and graduated high school there.  Clint returned to New Mexico and worked as a photographer and fought fires in the Nm State Forest Service.  Clint attended the university of Eastern New Mexico and graduated in 1996 with a degree in Biology.  While in College, Clint worked as a co-op student with NM Game and fish.  Soon after graduation Clint went to work with the NM Game and fish as the Clayton district conservation Officer but soon moved to Raton as the NE Area Habitat Specialist.  in 2004 Clint took the NE Area Public Affairs position and is busy with Hunter Education and many other wildlife and environmental programs.  Clint's wife, Wanda is a third grade teacher in Raton, they share two wonderful children, Rebeka, 15 and Toby, 11.  Clint is involved in the local Baptist Church and the theater in Raton.

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Xeriscape Gardening for Wildlife

Andrea Cassidy -- Three years as Master Gardener in Albuquerque.  Her interest is suburban or urban xeriscape gardens that provide natural habitat for wildlife.  Her front yard was renovated from grass lawn to wildlife garden and is certified by the National Wildlife Federation as a backyard wildlife habitat.  This will be Andrea’s second year as a NM-BOW instructor.

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