Making progress Index

It is our pleasure to bring our readers and the community this Douglas
County progress edition. In the last 10 years our community has developed
and grown in many areas.
Often in our pages these changes are debated with passion and vision of
what our community is to become and how we choose Minden
to design our futures. The Record-Courier set out at the
beginning of 2009 to look back and rediscover the Keeping home to
changes and developments that happened during the dollars at home industry
last decade. Page 7
In the pages that follow, you will be reintroduced to a Page 4
handful of these community developments that we feel
have made a positive impact on our community. Track goes
Many of our readers have moved to this beautiful
county in the last 10 years, and mingled our families and lifestyles with
from dream
those who have never called any place but Northern Nevada home. What to reality
remains consistent in our population, whether old-timer or new arrival, is Page 15
the passion we share for the community, the lifestyle that our Valley and
mountains provide and the idealism that Nevada provides to hold your own
opinion with pride and determination.
When visitors see our community in the next 10 years the developments Medical Performing
that have helped shape Douglas County during the last decade will become services arts thrive
part of our calling card.
Besides the wide open spaces and inspiring landscape, we are now a com- have grown in Valley
munity that provides the medical services that are needed by an aging and Page 12 Page 20
family-oriented community. We now look with pride at the state-of-the-art
sports facilities our high school students have the privilege to compete on in
football and in track.
Visitors can still find great open spaces in the Valley because of the conser-
vation movement that has preserved agricultural land. They will also find
comforts in a larger base of retail and service selections when they stay. The Preserving
region’s future employers will discover these things, plus a housing market
and recreational lifestyle which will be easy to sell to moving employees.
agriculture
We hope you enjoy this look back and can also envision the bright and for the
exciting future for Douglas County.
Charlie Pankey
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Judy Malo, left, of Dayton, rings up a picture frame for Donna Rockey of Gardnerville at the grand opening of the Walmart Supercenter on Topsy Lane in August 2002.
Commercial development keeps dollars at home
by Joyce Hollister
“Shop locally” became less of a
slogan and more of a reality when
the North Douglas County shop-
ping centers opened their doors.
More than 10 years ago, the
county began to explore ways to
prevent retail leakage—the term
that describes how people from one
county spend money at stores in
other counties.
“A retail leakage study showed
that a large amount, about 40 per-
cent, of people living in our area
shopped outside our area, such as
Carson City and Reno, for major
ticket items,” said Mimi Moss,
Douglas County community devel-
opment director.
The concern was the “fair share”
formula for divvying up state sales
tax, established in the early 1990s.
Under the plan, rural counties
would receive disproportionate
shares of the statewide sales tax rev-
enue from larger counties that had
a larger sales tax base. Douglas was
getting more than it generated.
County planners decided a more
diverse retail economy was needed.
“If the state ever changed the law
and didn’t distribute funds like
that, Douglas County would be on
4 2000-2010 DOUGLAS COUNTY PROGRESS
‘I f the state ever changed the law and didn’t
distribute funds like that, Douglas County would
be on its own. Douglas County would be in a
position to be healthy.’
T. Michael Brown
County Manager
its own,” County Manager T.
Michael Brown explained. With
more retail, “Douglas County
would be in a position to be
healthy.” He added that commercial
development would increase the
county’s assessed valuation as well
as bring new jobs.
Planners looked to a north coun-
ty site because of its proximity to
Carson City, the Highway 50 inter-
section and the future Highway 395
freeway bypass with the goal of cre-
ating regional commercial develop-
ment. When an area’s population
reaches 50,000, Moss explained, it
moves into a new planning catego-
ry, known as a metropolitan plan-
ning area.
“It’s a federal designation, and
once an area is designated, lots of
businesses start looking at it,” she
said. “That set the stage for a rede-
velopment agency.”
The redevelopment agency,
formed in 1998, provided incen-
tives for major retailers to locate
here. The first, the Home Depot-
Target center at the intersection of
Jacks Valley Road and Highway 395,
received a $3.5 million subsidy for
infrastructure improvements,
including road and intersection
upgrades to Jacks Valley Road, the
extension of Vista Grande, water
system improvements in conjunc-
tion with Indian Hills General
Improvement District and landscap-
ing. The developers were required
to construct at least 100,000 square
feet of retail space by 1999.
The project showed almost
immediate payoffs.
“In 1998-99, we had something
like $30 million in building materi-
als taxable sales,” Brown said as an
Brad Horn
Headlines in
Douglas County
commerce
August 2002 — Walmart opens
December 2002 — Legends
Country Inn opens in Genoa
August 2003 — Cost Plus World
Market, Bed, Bath & Beyond, Borders,
and Petco open
October 2003 — Minden Village
approved
October 2004 — In-N-Out Burger
opens
April 2005 — Business Bank of
Nevada opens in Minden Village
June 2005 — Nevada State Bank
building opens in Minden
October 2005 — BLM sells 206
acres of land to developers Big
George Ventures and John Serpa
December 2005 — Arby’s built in
Minden
April 2007 — Waterloo Walgreens
opens
October 2008 — Center at Waterloo
completed
August 2009 — Colonial Bank
completed
example. “When Home Depot came
on in February 2000, one year later
those sales went to $72 million, so
it’s a significant impact.”
In the Clear Creek and Carson
Valley Plaza projects, which include
Walmart, Best Buy, Borders and
other large retailers as well as chain
restaurants and smaller national
outlets, the developer was granted a
$3 million subsidy. In order to
obtain the funds, the developer had
to build a minimum of 12,000
square feet beginning in January
2004 and occupy it for at least six
months.
A third north county develop-
ment, Riverwood across Highway
395 from the Carson Valley Plaza,
was slated to receive $24.7 million
in infrastructure subsidies, but
requirements would have included
larger square footage and longer
occupancy periods. For now that
project is on hold, Brown said, a
victim of the economic downturn.
“The hope was that Riverwood
Shoppers camp out in line in front of Best Buy in Douglas Country for a limited release of 24 of
the new Xbox 360 game systems.
would build out like Carson Valley
Plaza,” Brown said. “They won’t get
any money until they perform those
conditions. The thinking was they
would get some built and it would
grow into something much larger.”
Brad Horn
The hope now is that when the eco-
nomic picture changes, the project
will be revitalized.
Moss believes that the existing
north county developments have
met expectations.
“Overall, we’ve kept people in
our community,” she said. “They
don’t have to leave our community
to do an essential amount of shop-
ping.”
Brown said the north county
projects offer a variety of different
retail businesses and restaurants.
“All the products they have in those
stores have been very helpful from a
residents’ perspective,” he said.
And once you entice a major
retailer, more follow, bringing many
choices to consumers, Moss added.
“Usually, when Best Buy comes
in, you have Marshall’s and Borders.
Businesses like to be in a cool area
to capture customers,” Moss said.
“If you go to Walmart, you may go
to Del Taco for lunch, you make a
stop at Starbucks or the pizza place.
You do it as a trip.”
And this all happened faster than
the county expected.
“When we envisioned Target and
Home Depot,” she said, “we
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20 years to build out. Walmart
came in, and then everybody want-
ed to come in.”
Moss pointed to other develop-
ments in the county.
“I think we’ve built a good base
of commercial users in the commu-
nity, and over time we’ve built up
industrial users as well. We’ve got a
Starbuck’s roasting plant, for exam-
ple. The key for us is to look at try-
ing to diversify and getting other
business parks and high-tech busi-
nesses. That goes for the Lake as
well as the Valley.”
Coming along more slowly are
localized commercial areas, such as
Minden Village off Lucerne, where a
grocery store, small office complex-
es and restaurants cater to mostly
nearby residents. The idea, Brown
said, was that the retail would be
easily accessible for customers on
foot.
When the nearby residential
development is completed, it is
expected that traffic will pick up.
Also on hold is the Minden
Gateway Center, which would fea-
ture mixed-use development with
residential areas. Brad Horn
Boys build wooden cars at the Home Depot during a 2004 workshop.
This kind of project is aimed at a
younger demographic, 20- and 30- Virginia Ranch, where a new tourists. The county’s transfer of nesses do we want here? Can peo-
year-olds who like to live near Walmart may be built, Matley development rights program is ple afford it? It’s looking at land use
work, essential services, stores and Ranch, and Riverview and Pinenut helping to preserve agricultural through the master plans for each
restaurants. roads. land, presenting opportunities to community, talking about mixed-
Other future development is eyed Minden and Gardnerville are preserve the county’s character and use and lifestyle centers. It’s trying
for Muller Parkway, just north of investing in infill and replacement heritage. to create a more sustainable envi-
the intersection of highways 88 and development in their downtowns, “We need to look at smart ronment.”
395, south of Gardnerville at which caters to both locals and growth,” Moss stressed. “What busi-

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The father of modern Carson Valley industry, Don Bently, tours the Bently Biofuels Outpost on Buckeye Road in Minden for the store’s opening in 2008.
Minden home to Carson Valley industry
In Carson Valley we roast coffee.
We turn kitchen grease into fuel. We
build scooters and make world class
sails.
Carson Valley’s industrial heritage
traces back to the early days when
lumber from the Sierra was milled
along the base of the Sierra in
Genoa and Jacks Valley. That wood
went to build the homes and busi-
nesses that would contribute to the
settling of the early state.
The Douglas County seat was
born to industry, as the old flour
mill located near Highway 395 and
Buckeye Road can testify.
While many places in Carson
Valley grew grain, it was Minden
that transformed it into feed. While
there were many dairies, it was
Minden that manufactured butter
for the Valley and the rest of
Western Nevada.
When industrialist Don Bently
brought Bently Nevada Corp. to
Minden in 1961, it became a place
where sensors that detected vibra-
tions in rotating machinery were
made.
Other industries joined Bently,
which over the years became
Carson Valley’s largest private
employer. In 2002, Bently handed
the keys to his plant to General
Electric.
In 2003, GoPed scooter manufac-
turers moved its 70,000 square-foot
production facility to Minden.
In April 2003, Starbucks became
the fourth largest private employer
in the Valley.
Located on 100 acres in the
Carson Valley just south of Johnson
Lane, the 360,000-square-foot plant
started distributing its coffee April
7, 2003.
Starbucks employs 200 to 299
workers, according to state figures,
and processes between 60 million
and 100 million pounds of coffee
per year: a level comparable to
Starbucks main plant in Kent,
Wash., near Seattle.
In addition to roasting and dis-
tributing coffee, the Minden plant
distributes Starbucks merchandise
like paper goods, sweets, chocolates.
Just past the warehouse, the
plant’s drum roasters rotate like
large clothes dryers, tumbling 640
pounds beans per batch, at temper-
atures ranging from 350 to 450
degrees, for 10 to 15 minutes.
“Each coffee is different and
requires a specific roast,” Starbucks
associate Doug Langworthy said at
the time of the plant’s opening.
“Coffees from Kenya, for example,
tend to have citrus and floral flavors
and if we don’t roast the coffee cor-
rectly, we lose those flavors.”
The beans are released into cool-
ing trays, then blown into a silo sys-
tem and into the packing room,
where the coffee is sealed airtight.
“The green coffee quality, roast-
ing and packaging are equally
important,” Langworthy said.
“Coffee is good for only one to two
weeks, and how it is packaged is
critical.”
Following Carson Valley’s long
history of food manufacture, Tahoe
Ridge Winery opened its produc-
tion facility in Minden in 2005.
Only three years after selling his
company, Don Bently was once
again in the news, this time leading
the charge for biofuels.
Bently’s plant used grease from
restaurants to make biodiesel fuel.
With the opening of a conven-
ience store and gas station, using
greener fuel became as easy as
pulling up to a gas pump.
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Shannon Litz
Headlines in
Douglas County
industry
2002 — Bently Nevada sells to General
Electric Co.
2003 — Patmont Motor Werks, maker
of the GoPed scooter, opens in Minden
2003 — Starbucks opens in Minden
2004 — Tahoe Creamery opens its ice
cream plant in Minden
2005 — Tahoe Ridge Winery stomps
first grapes in Minden
2005 — Aviso Surfboards opens
2005 — Bently Agrowdynamics opens
first biofuel production plant
2007 — American AVK, which manu-
factures fire hydrants, opens
2008 — Alpen Sierra Mountain Roasted
Coffee opens in Minden
2008 — Bently Biofuels opens its
convenience store in Minden
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Rodney Schilling is attached to the gantry as the fiber head lays the yarn on the mold on Jan. 10 at North Sails in Minden.

8 DOUGLAS COUNTY PROGRESS 2000-2010

 TRUST
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J. Brandon explains how the articulated mold moves to create the shape of the sail at North Sails in Minden. Below, Brandon shows
the hand-stitching on a 3DL sail. At bottom, the 3DL fiber head applies yarn to the film. The fiber head attachment is part of the gantry

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‘T here is only a handful of top designers in the
world. They could fit into our conference room.
And they have.”
North Sails quality assurance manager
boats more than 100 feet long.
“Our customers are looking for
top performance and sails that
are fast, lightweight and durable,”
Brandon said. “Some of our cus-
tomers participate in round-the-
world races. If you race six or
seven months and cross the
equator three or four times, your
equipment has to hold up.”
Expert sail designers work with
individual customers to prepare
just the right sail for each owner’s
boat. They design the sails on
computer and test them in a vir-
tual wind tunnel that simulates
the conditions that the sails will
encounter.
“There is only a handful of top
designers in the world. They
could fit into our conference
room,” Brandon said. “And they
have.”
The construction takes place
on actual-sized, three-dimension-
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create each sail’s specific shape.
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is a tough sandwich of plastic
film, synthetic yarns—such as
lightweight carbon fibers—and
adhesives.
The layers are compressed and
bonded with heat. Computers
guide the process. Workers sus-
pended from moveable gantries
inspect each step.
For centuries sails were made
in pieces and stitched together.
The one-piece construction of a
3DL—which stands for three-
dimensionally laminated—sail
reduces the stress that comes
from wind and waves. The 3DL
stretches less for its weight and
keeps its shape longer than a
conventional sail.
“Our software suite enables
designers to visualize how a sail
is going to look and perform in
action on a boat,” Brandon said.
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introduced its newest tech-
nology, 3Di. “We’ll be
building sails using this
technology and continue to
produce sails in traditional
3DL,” said Brandon. “We
expect to make these side by
side in the near future.”
North Sail’s unique pro-
duction process was fea-
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Channel program, “How It’s
Made,” in October.
Television crews spent a
long day filming at the
state-of-the-art, 110,000-
square-foot facility last
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process.
Why, one might ask, is
North Sails in Minden? Real
estate is one factor, because
to build such a large sail
factory — also known as a
loft — a lot of land is need-
ed, and square footage is at
a premium at ocean-side
locations. Another reason is
the business-friendly tax
and labor climate in Nevada
— as well as the actual cli-
mate. Brandon noted
Nevada’s low humidity
helps production, since
moisture compromises the
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Rodney Schilling is attached to the gantry as the fiber head lays the yarn on the mold. Three molds can be seen from
this photo.
laminating process.
With its proximity to
Reno-Tahoe Airport, North
Sails can ship sails any-
where in the world.
“The freight company
comes between 3 and 5 in
the afternoon five days a
week, and we load up a
truck with hundreds of
thousands of dollars’ worth
of product,” Brandon said.
A crate with cargo valued
at half a million dollars
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comparison to the compa-
ny’s infusion of cash into
the community. Brandon
said North Sails’ 100
employees spend between
$100,000 and $200,000
every two weeks.
“That money comes from
outside of this county and
outside of Nevada, and a
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significant amount comes
from outside the U.S.,” he
said. Brandon likes to say
that North Sails is not only
in the business of making
sails, it’s importing money.
“Every other Friday our
employees make their car
payments and pay their
rent. They take their fami-
lies out to dinner and buy
groceries. That money
comes from outside of the
county, and we’re really
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proud of that.”
Although the worldwide
downturn in the economy
has affected North Sails as it
has millions of other busi-
nesses, the company is still
working 24 hours a day and
still in the process of devel-
oping new forms of
advanced sail technology.
The North Sails factory
has been expanded three
times in the past two years
and grew from a single large
building to a campus with
four buildings. The most
recent expansion was relat-
ed to the company’s new
products.
Brandon added that what
the Carson Valley commu-
nity has to offer is also a
major reason for the com-
pany to locate here.
“It’s a great place to live
and work,” he said. “We like
to be a good corporate citi-
zen; we sponsor local sports
teams and that sort of
thing.”
Brandon conducts tours
of the loft for school groups
and community organiza-
tions.
And TV crews.
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Care Flight transporting a patient from North Lake Tahoe last summer.
Carson Valley medical
facilities have grown
By Dave Price
To look at the Carson Tahoe
Regional Healthcare Minden
Medical Center and Carson Valley
Medical Center, you see two facili-
ties that have made extensive
progress in the past decade to meet
the challenge of providing service in
their community and across the
Eastern Sierra.
So when Sandy Wartgow and
Woodie Ross walk into work each
day — Wartgow as nurse manager
for Minden Medical Center and
Ross as director of outpatient servic-
es at the Carson Valley Medical
Center — not only is it more than a
job, there is nowhere else they
would want to be.
“This is a beautiful place to live,”
Ross said, motioning toward a view
of the Pine Nut Mountains on an
ideal autumn day. “People drive
through here on a day like today
and think, ‘Wow! Where are we?’”
12 DOUGLAS COUNTY PROGRESS
Sandy Wartgow
Wartgow knows that view quite
well, having grown up in Carson
Valley, graduated from Douglas
High School and put in time as a
volunteer at the original Carson
Valley Emergency Health Clinic
after it opened on Jan. 19, 1981.
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Woodie Ross
She even worked as a lifeguard at
the old Douglas County outdoor
swimming pool starting at 14 —
along with her future husband,
Bobby Wartgow, who worked more
than 26 years for the East Fork Fire
& Paramedic Districts, retiring as
Incline Village Bonanza
Headlines in
Douglas County
medicine
1981 — Carson Valley Emergency
Health Clinic opens
1993 — Carson Valley Medical
Center opens in Gardnerville
1995 — 24-hour emergency room
opens at Carson Valley Medical Center
1998 — Minden Medical Center built
by Carson Tahoe Hospital
2004 — Carson Valley Medical
Center opens critical access hospital
2005 — Carson Tahoe Regional
Medical Center opens
2006 — Topaz Ranch Medical Center
opens in Topaz Ranch Estates
2006 — Carson Tahoe Cancer
Center opens
2007 — Intensive care unit opens
at Carson Valley Medical Center
2009 — Carson Valley Medical
Center Foundation announces plans
for accomplishing its mission

Registered Nurse Lori Salvador shows Marie Pupich of the Gardnerville Ranchos the new infusion center at Carson Valley Medical
Center. It is arranged like a living room with a couch and a television. Below, Alyce Saurer of Gardnerville talks with registered
dietitian and certified diabetes instructor Michele Cowee at the Carson Valley Medical Center diabetes center opening.
deputy chief in 2008
After graduating from the
University of Nevada, she
returned to work full-time and
has been at the current
Minden facility since its open-
ing in 1999.
“It is neat to have seen this
grow from a small-town, one-
room clinic to a true medical
center,” Wartgow said.
When the Carson Valley
clinic opened at the Stratton
Center, it was hailed as a
“dream come true” by presid-
ing officials from Carson-
Tahoe and a local liaison
board, according to a story in
the Jan. 22, 1981, edition of
The Record-Courier.
“There was no health care
access in Douglas County until
then,” Wartgow said. “I
remember the community rais-
ing money; the community
raised half and Carson-Tahoe
came up with the rest to get it
open.”
Moving to the larger facility
in Minden was another step
forward, she added.
“That allowed us to have
more beds, we added a CAT
scanner and ultrasound
machines, we got X-ray equip-
ment and expanded to mam-
mography,” Wartgow said.
“Now physicians and special-
ists are able to have offices
here; we have physicians on
site now so they (patients) can
see their cardiologists, podia-
trists, dermatologists, urolo-
gists and we even have a den-
tal suite now.”
One thing Wartgow is proud
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ICU. The center’s service further
includes the presence of a
CareFlight helicopter facility.
It’s all been part of keeping up
with the demands of serving Carson
Valley and beyond.
“For this small of a town, we are
very busy,” Ross said. “When you
look at the size of the town, we are
drawing all the way from Carson
City and as far south as Bridgeport.”
Covering such a vast area will
become easier in the future through
“telemedicine,” says Bill Hale, who
has been Carson Valley Medical
Center CEO for the past year and a
half.
“We have the ability to talk to
anybody around the world,” Hale
said. “You could be hundreds of
miles from the physician and we
could actually do consults, diagno-
sis based on what you see from that
image.”
Hale has seen many advances
since 1962 when he began working
in the medical field in Southern
California. He retired “thinking I
was done but this opportunity
came up and I’m having a blast
now” — and still sees continued
progress.
“There will be, some day, when
you won’t even go to your physi-
cian’s office,” he said, referring to
telemedicine. “You’ll just talk to
him and he’ll be able see you on a
screen. You’ll be able to talk to your
doctor on the screen, and unless it’s
something really serious, they’ll be
Minden Medical Center as it appeared earlier in the decade.
able to diagnose you, prescribe
medication for you just by talking
to you and looking at your system
over the television screen. Within
the next 10 years, you’re going to
see that. You’ll be able to see your
doctor on the screen and vice versa.
We’re getting there very quickly.”
Ross worked at Barton Memorial
Hospital in South Lake Tahoe
before moving over to the Carson
Valley Medical Center in 1996 in
time for the completion of its 24-
hour emergency room and ambula-
tory surgery center.
“It was very exciting because we
really began to really grow at that
point,” Ross said. “It’s been a real
experience. I would say most radiol-
ogy managers plop themselves in
the middle of something that’s
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already built and running and so
forth. I got to see the whole depart-
ment develop from basically the
ground up as far as the more
sophisticated equipment that we
have.”
He likes the environment of
working at a facility that is found in
a smaller community.
“Here, I feel like I am so much
more involved with the day-to-day
stuff,” Ross said.
“The other day I was walking
through the emergency room and
there was Woodie, wheeling in a
patient,” Hale added, flashing a
smile.
Likewise, Wartgow says she finds
the Carson Valley pace appealing.
“It’s kind of perfect; we don’t
have 10 ambulances coming in here
every half-hour or anything like
that,” Wartgow said. “It’s still very
busy, especially now with the flu.
With everything we’re seeing, it’s
not like the flu we’ve seen in the
past — 4 years old to 30, that’s the
population that’s getting sick.”
The goal is to give the patients
the best of care and the best com-
munication possible.
“We do health fairs the second
Tuesday of every month,” said
Michele Davis, registration supervi-
sor at the Minden Medical Center.
“You can go online and print certifi-
cates and then go to an outpatient
care facility without a physician’s
order. We want to encourage people
to take care of themselves; if they
think something might be wrong,
to come in and get it checked out.
We want to make them a little more
proactive in their health care.”
Davis, who grew up in South
Lake Tahoe and previously worked
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 Dream field became reality

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The completed field at the Big George Sports Complex from the air. At top, Douglas County commissioner Jim Baushke, Town of Minden board member Bob Hadfield, Douglas County School District
superindendent John Soderman, school board trustee Keith Roman, Big George Ventures owner Ray Sidney, Douglas principal Marty Swisher, Douglas cross country coach Keith Cole, Douglas football
coach Mike Rippee, Douglas track coach Rick Brown, Douglas County commissioner David Brady, Douglas track athlete Skylar Young and Douglas football player Nathaniel Singh dig in during the ground-
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by Dave Price
In the past decade the Big George
Athletic Complex — complete with
its all-weather track and field facili-
ty and Sportexe field turf on the
Douglas High School campus —
has blossomed from the drawing
board into a true community high-
light, one that takes a backseat to
no other in Northern Nevada,
thanks to a solid 10 years of plan-
ning, raising funds and labor.
It all came together when the
complex was unveiled before a
overflow crowd that turned out to
watch a night of football when
Douglas hosted Wooster on Oct.
26, 2007.
It’s a night Keith Cole will never
forget.
“I walked out there after a cross
country meet, the stands were
packed, the scoreboard was lit up,
you had the orange end zones and
the game was going on,” said Cole,
who came to Douglas as a teacher
and coach in 1999. “It was a goose
bump moment.”
Very understandable, considering
the time Cole and many others had
put toward the facility. Work had
been under way since 1995 to
upgrade a track and field facility
that was considered to be among
the best in Northern Nevada two
decades before when it was one of
the first 400-meter tracks (as
opposed to 440 yards) and good
enough to host the 1981 NIAA 3A
State Championships.
“My vision had always been to
redo the track. Five years (of coach-
ing) at ‘Lake Douglas,’ having to
practice inside because of all the
water out there, it just wasn’t an
acceptable way to run a program,”
said Cole, who previously had
assisted with a similar all-weather
track project at Churchill County
High School in Fallon.

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 Headlines in
Douglas County sports
2000 — The Douglas girls' soccer
team wins the Northern 4A state title
2001 — The Douglas volleyball team
claims the Northern 4A regional title
2002 — The Douglas girls’ basketball
team wins the Northern 4A title
2004 — Behind the pitching of
Brittany Puzey, Kayla Dunn and Kellei
Kizer, the Douglas softball team wins
the Northern 4A Regional title
2006 — Douglas senior Shane Miller
goes 50-1 on the year to win the
regional and state wrestling titles in the
189-pound class
2007 — Longtime Douglas football
and basketball announcer Ken Carr
retires after more than 20 years
2008 — Douglas High officially opens
its all-weather track and artificially-sur-
faced football field at the newly-named
Big George Sports Complex
2009 — Former Douglas High
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2009 — Sierra Lutheran High School
senior Wade Meddles places third at the
Foot Locker National Cross Country
Championships, marking the highest-
ever finish for a Nevada resident
It all started with fundraisers and
donations from within the commu-
nity.
“The boosters had a golf tourna-
ment as part of their fundraising
drive and they had $30,000 to
$40,000 raised,” Cole said. “Chuck
Smock (Record-Courier sports edi-
tor) regularly published a gauge
showing donations from individu-
als and businesses; he was a big
track guy and that was a huge deal.
If we hadn’t had that press coverage,
I don’t know where we would have
been.
“We started small (with) $100
donations, anything we could get.
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coming in, Suzi Stockdale and
Harley-Davidson gave $5,000, and
we kind of reached a point where
the district kicked in $300,000.”
In the fall of 2005, however, opti-
mism for the project began to wane.
Original estimates of the cost had
escalated and the incoming dona-
tions and pledges didn’t appear to
be enough to keep pace. A major
boost was needed, and it came with
one phone call.
“I’ll never forget that day. I got a
call from the office that somebody
wanted to speak to me,” Cole said,
laughing. “It was a call from Robbe
Lehmann; he asked if we were still
accepting donations for the track
and I said, ‘yes.’ Then he asked,
‘How much will it take to get it
done?’ I didn’t know who he was,
so thought he might have been just
joking. I told him how some of the
estimates had come in and that we
needed a million-and-a-half to 2
million. He said, ‘We’ll cover the
rest of the cost to get it done.’”
No joke! Lehmann, project man-
ager for Big George Ventures, was
calling on behalf of owner Ray
Sidney, and today, Marty Swisher
still has the oversized check, in his
office that was presented to the
Douglas County School District.
The total was $1.6 million.
“I can’t say thank-you enough to
Ray and Robbe and to all the peo-
ple who donated,” Cole said.
“There have been former students,
current students and their parents,
Robbe Lehmann and Ray Sidney try on their letterman’s jackets at Douglas High School before the
varsity football game in October 2007. Lehmann and Sidney received jackets and lifetime passes to
Douglas sporting events as a thank-you for helping to fund the track and field.
and all the other people in the
community for their generosity in
making all this possible: Holly
Luna, the district’s chief financial
officer, she’s the one who made
sure all the addition and subtrac-
tion was on track; Jeremy Hutchings
at R.O. Anderson Engineering was
the surveyor, he literally knows
every inch of that complex, and
basically took my ideas for the track
facility and gave them form.”
The track is now open to the
public from sunrise to sunset
Monday through Saturday each
week, excluding times when the
complex and campus are in use by
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the high school.
“From the beginning, we’ve made
a commitment to the community;
that it was going to be open so peo-
ple have access to it,” Cole said.
“This is one of the best facilities in
the state and we feel it’s important
people in the community have
access to it.”
Added Principal Marty Swisher: “I
appreciate the respect the commu-
nity has shown in helping care for
the facility. One of the problems
with turf, things like gum and soda
drinks will disintegrate the turf, but
the people in this community have
been super respectful and that
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“Misuse would be terrible. We
want it to last at least 12 years.
That’s the goal. We’ve gotten a lot of
use out of it when you consider the
P.E. classes are out there, the foot-
ball and track teams, it’s used for
soccer games and band practice. It’s
just neat the number of people who
use it; there have been innumerable
people who have benefited from
that facility.”
Then there was the inaugural Big
George Invitational on April 26,
2008. It was the first season
Douglas had hosted a track and
field meet since 1995.
“We had something like 19
teams, and seeing all those kids out
there enjoying the sport they love in
a top-notch facility,” Swisher said.
“I remember it was a bright
Saturday morning, I was up in the
press box and looked out across the
field and I thought to myself, ‘This
is what it’s all about.’ It was a neat
moment for me, personally.”
Cole regards the completion of
the complex as one of the profes-
sional achievements he is most
proud of.
“One of the things that was dis-
cussed early on was all the time and
effort that it was going to require,”
Cole said. “So was the expense and
time worth it? Absolutely!”
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April 2001
Six years of work culminated with the long-awaited
Carson Valley Skate Facility at Herbig Park, which was
officially dedicated on May 12. The 24,000-square-
foot facility was dedicated to the memory of Ryan
O’Sullivan, a founding member of the Carson Valley
Skaters, who died of an asthma attack at age 15
nearly two years before. Later, Douglas County Parks
& Recreation received the Elmer H. Anderson Parks
Excellence Award, presented by the Nevada Parks &
Recreation Society in recognition of the facility having
the state’s best new special feature in park design.
August 2003
James Lee Memorial Park is refurbished to include the
Indian Hills General Improvement District headquar-
ters, and to add a multi-use room that seats 130. The
James Lee facility now includes a skate park, tennis
courts, a lighted baseball field that has hosted youth
tournament play and a system of trails.
July 2005
What started as a simple idea to get people outdoors
in the slow midsummer months has come full-circle to
earn honors from the Nevada Recreation & Parks
Society. The first White Lightning Wiffleball Tournament
won a Program Excellence Award at the 2006 Nevada
Recreation & Parks Society conference in Reno. J.P.
Albert, recreation coordinator for Douglas County,
developed and implemented the plan for the tourna-
ment. "The tournament was a way to reintroduce a back- said. The tournament consisted of nine teams of four-six crowd of 1,952 turned out for a five-fight card for an
yard child’s game while providing a positive leisure time
activity," Douglas recreation supervisor Sheryl Christian
Sonny Robison performs a trick during the skate competition at Carson
Valley Days in 2006.
players each, with eight teams advancing to the champi-
onship bracket. The tournament
modest reception in the summer of 2005 and held a
steady participation rate over the next two summers.
October 2008
The Carson Valley Trails Association received a
$396,378 Question 1 grant from the Nevada Division
of State Lands to be used to help complete a portion
of the 24-mile Genoa Foothill Trail System Project,
which includes a connection to the Tahoe Rim Trail.
Additional grants in 2008 were received from the
American Hiking Society, the Sierra Pacific Foundation
and the Nevada Recreational Trails Program, accord-
ing to CVTA president Kerstin Wolle. Within the past
decade, the Fay-Luther and Jobs Peak Ranch trail
systems have been developed to currently offer
approximately 10 miles of designated trails, with a
considerable amount of work still to be completed in
the Genoa foothill area and on the Kirman Track Trail
System along the Carson River. CVTA’s ultimate goal is
to build a trail that will connect the entire Carson
Valley.
Stodick Park and Ranchos Aspen Park
For nearly 20 years, Lampe Park served as the
Valley’s major park. The addition of Stodick and
Aspen parks enabled local youth organizations to
host an increased number of special events, including
Shannon Litz district Little League tournament play. Also, Sharkey’s
Cow Pasture Boxing Festival was revived after a 12-
year hiatus at Stodick Park on Aug. 15, 2003. A
event that was a tradition through the 1970s, ’80s and
made its debut to a into the ’90s.
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Performing arts thrive in Valley
by Joyce Hollister
When Copeland Lumber Co.
closed its Minden location some
years ago, no one could have fore-
seen that one day it would become
a vibrant center for the arts in
Carson Valley.
Professional musicians, stage-
struck schoolchildren, traveling
players and local visual artists find a
place to display their talents at what
is now the Copeland Cultural Arts
Center, operated by the Carson
Valley Arts Council. And even
though the dream of developing a
fixed-seat theater in the building’s
huge warehouse is still to be real-
ized, much has been accomplished
in the past five years.
“We’re here to be a local arts
agency and not compete with any-
one,” said Executive Director
Theresa Chipp. “We want to fill in
the gaps and help people coordi-
nate and work together.” That
includes collaborating with area arts
agencies, such as the Brewery Arts
Center in Carson City and the
Nevada Arts Council, a division of
the Nevada Department of Cultural
Affairs, and helping various entities Shannon Litz
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An artist's rendering of the Carson Valley Arts Council's future multipurpose performing arts center at the old Copeland Lumber building.

A lot of the work to update the
Copeland building has been done
by volunteers. Board members laid
the laminate floor for the center’s
offices and gallery, located in the
front part of the former lumberyard
on Highway 395. Board vice presi-
dent Krissie Thornhill was the pro-
ject’s interior designer and is this
year’s events chair.
Partitions separate the offices of
the council and those of its four
affiliates. There is a small-perform-
ance venue called the ArtBar, and
the hallway provides display space
for photographs and paintings.
Several times a month the public is
welcome to performances. The
ArtBar also can be used for meet-
ings, workshops and classes.
“There’s another set of offices
behind the initial portion we think
we’ve got the funding for,” Chipp
said. “Lloyd Higuera will move into
a studio for DCCA-TV and an edit-
ing station, and we’ll put in a small
kitchen so we can start serving food
and drink.”
Right now, there is no money for
the hoped-for fixed-seat perform-
ance space, and ideas are being
floated for a smaller black box the-
ater and possibly a community cen-
ter. “I want to do what the commu-
nity needs,” Chipp said. “If we can
get something in and done — even
a black box theater — we could
have our own productions in our
own place.”
CONCERTS AND EVENTS
Among the activities already held
at the Copeland are shows featuring
artists and photographers from the
area, such as Nina Major, members
of the Carson Valley Photo Club
and Pam Brekas.
Touring musicians play in the
ArtBar, a small space that nonethe-
less can hold 98 and boasts a
donated semiconcert grand piano.
Among those to entertain Carson
Valley audiences have been drum-
mer Liz Broscoe and Dream Spirit
Baroque Band. McAvoy Layne, a
local favorite, has portrayed Mark
Twain.
Visit www.cvartscouncil.com or
call 782-8207 for details about pro-
grams and the 2009-2010 concert
series, which includes singer-song-
writers the Fishtank Ensemble Jan.
22 and Great Basin Brass Feb. 12.
Chipp is working with the Town of
Genoa on the inaugural Genoa
Cowboy Poetry and Music Festival,
set for April and May.
The Copeland is open 10 a.m. to
5 p.m., Monday to Saturday.
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formed ShowBiz Kids, whose young
members perform twice a month in
the ArtBar under the direction of
Rich and Kris Garrett.
“There are a lot of children who
don’t play sports,” Chipp said.
“They find a niche for themselves in
the theater and in the arts. With
schools having stripped arts from
the curriculum, it’s really important
for us to make art available to kids
as well as the community.”
The arts council brought Wild
Horse Children’s Theater’s
“Seussical Junior,” a one-act version
of “Seussical the Musical,” through
the ArtOutreachDC program. The
show was a big success with stu-
dents in Douglas schools, according
to Chipp.
AFFILIATES MAKE UP ARTSINCUBATOR
The arts council offers support for
four affiliates, known collectively as
the ArtsIncubator, based at the
Copeland Cultural Center.
The Dakota Organization, which
shares its office with the Carson
Valley Community Theatre, was
founded in 2005 by Teri Levy.
Fellow board members Dave
Anderson, Rod Hearn and Marie
Parola and 10 volunteers operate
the nonprofit corporation, produc-
ing on average two plays a year.
Anderson said they tend toward
what he calls edgy pieces, such as
the recent “Rabbit Hole” that
explored how parents cope with the
loss of a child. Nicole Kidman has
Volunteers from GE Energy work on the outside of the Carson Valley Arts Council Copeland
Building in May 2009.
acquired the movie rights for the
Pulitzer Prize-winning play.
Anderson said even considering the
subject matter, “We had a lot of
positive feedback from the show.
We’re very proud of that.”
Dakota plays are usually pro-
duced at Minden’s CVIC Hall and
Valhalla Boathouse Theater at Lake
Tahoe. Anderson said he would love
to have a true theater space in
Carson Valley such as the Copeland
Cultural Arts Center might one day
provide.
Anderson said Dakota is commit-
ted to bringing professional-level
theater to the area. On the last two
weekends in February, Dakota will
collaborate with the Proscenium
Special to The R-C
Players of Carson City to produce
“The Odd Couple” at the CVIC
Hall. Visit www.thedakotaorganiza-
tion.com for information about
upcoming shows and photos of pre-
vious productions.
Carson Valley Community
Theatre organized in 2004 and has
produced nearly a dozen plays and
musicals in the Valley, beginning
with “Nurseryland” at the Genoa
Renaissance Faire in 2004 and in
October, “Moon Over Buffalo” at
the CVIC Hall. “Sounds of
Broadway,” by Carson Valley resi-
dent Norris Edson, proved to be so
popular that the group will revisit
show music with “Broadway
Through the Decades” May 14-16
Headlines in
Douglas County
performing arts
1970 — Copeland Lumber builds
structure in Minden
1999 — Carson Valley Pops
established
2004 — Carson Valley Community
Theatre founded
2005 — Dakota Organization
founded
2006 — Plans for performance hall
in former Copeland Lumber building
unveiled.
2007 — GE Energy designates the
Carson Valley Arts Council Copeland
Building as their project for Global
Volunteer Day
2008 — Arts council takes posses-
sion of Copeland Building thanks to a
$400,000 donation by Big George
Ventures’ Ray Sidney
2008 — The Carson Valley Arts
Council work to convert the old
Copeland Lumber building in down-
town Minden into a performing arts
center wins Tourism Business of the
Year from the chamber
2009 — Minden Fortnightly donates
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and 21-23 at the CVIC Hall.
The new show, directed
by Lucille Rao with musical
direction by Edson and
longtime area theater veter-
an Carolyn Lancaster, will
include tunes from
Broadway shows from 1910
to the present, with
favorites from “South
Pacific,” “My Fair Lady,”
“The Sound of Music” and
“Chicago.”
The group reaches out to
young people through pro-
grams with Douglas High
School’s music and drama
departments and the
Western Nevada College arts
department.
Visit www.carsonvalley-
communitytheatre.org for
more information and tick-
ets to shows.
Douglas County
Community Access
Television, sponsored by
Douglas County, is man-
aged by Lloyd Higuera and
has a volunteer board.
The DCCA-TV office was
moved out of the Douglas
County 911 Center to the
Copeland Cultural Arts
Center, which makes the
office more accessible to the
public, Higuera said.
The DCCA-TV goal is to
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county issues as well as
entertain and educate view-
ers. Among November’s
programs were “Northern
Nevada Lifestyles,” “AARP
Presents: Air Race Classic,”
“Book Talk,” “Campus
Chat,” and “History of
Nevada State Police.”
The arts council produces
the monthly ArtBeat featur-
ing local artists and arts
organizations as well as
regional arts events.
Producers are urged to sub-
mit their work to DCCA-TV
and can borrow equipment
from the Douglas County
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In October, Lee Lewis
opened Heartstrings Gallery
and Gifts, where the long-
time artist makes and sells
her own work: silk scarves
and ties, jewelry, wall hang-
ings, mosaics, handpainted
glassware, soaps, candles
and original watercolors
and prints.
Lewis has three partners,
Rich Farrar, photography;
Kim Johnston, ceramics and
pottery; and Laura Burt,
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New items are constantly
coming in, and Lewis
advised browsers to buy
what they want when they
see it, as it may not be in
the shop the next time.
Lewis and her partners also
do custom work.
She said she is happy to
finally have a store, particu-
larly one with a studio
where she can work instead
of working at home. “I have
the space I’ve always want-
ed—and I have my house
back,” she said.
Demonstrations are
offered each day, and classes
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of media. The shop is open
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ARTS DRAW TOURISM
“It’s my firm belief that
the arts can do two things,
enhance people’s lives and
drive our economy,” said
Chipp, who points to
Carmel, Calif., which long
ago chose to promote its art
community and today
thrives thanks to a flourish-
ing tourist economy.
The Nevada Commission
on Tourism agrees that
attracting tourists, especially
to rural Nevada, helps revi-
talize communities.
Recently, NCOT gave the
arts council a grant for the
Genoa Cowboy Festival,
which will feature cowboy
music, poetry, workshops
and demonstrations in April
and May.
Chipp says Carson
Valley’s art community is
already beginning to draw
visitors. “A couple from
California came into Lee’s
shop one Saturday, and said
they came here because they
heard Minden was an ‘artsy’
area,” Chipp said. “I consid-
er that a real coup.”
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Preserving 13,000 acres of ag land
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13,000 acres of Douglas County
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served, ensuring that future genera-
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tacular views, diverse wildlife and
ranching heritage.
“In the last four to five years, it’s
really taken off,” said Jacques
Etchegoyhen of Terra Firma
Associates of Minden, which bro-
kers conservation easements
between private landowners and
public and private entities.
As a county commissioner from
1995 to 2005 and a planning com-
missioner for four years before that,
Etchegoyhen worked with his fel-
low board members to develop
ways to preserve the county’s ranch-
es and open spaces. He believes the
county is ahead of other Nevada
communities when it comes to
preservation.
Duane Petite, Reno director of
the Carson River Project for The
Nature Conservancy, agrees.
“Douglas County has been a leader
in using conservation easements to
preserve open space by protecting
private property rights,” Petite said. Special to The R-C
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space plan put into place in 2000
and updated in 2007.”
Various private, nonprofit entities
have come into play, such as The
Nature Conservancy, Trust for
Public Land and American Land
Conservancy. These groups collabo-
rate with the Bureau of Land
Management, U.S. Forest Service,
Douglas County, Carson City, and
other public entities and private
property owners.
“It’s been very much a joint
effort,” Etchegoyhen said.
“Everybody is moving toward the
same goal.”
Conservation easement programs
are unique: the land is not sold,
only the development rights are.
“One very important thing to
remember,” Petite said, “is with an
easement, the land remains in pri-
vate ownership. The land continues
to provide economic opportunities
to the community — taxes and
jobs, to name two.
“So with conservation easements
in Carson Valley, you’re not only
protecting the land and the water,
you’re preserving the traditional
land uses and preserving our ranch-
ing heritage by continuing it as a
working landscape.”
An easement is essentially a real
estate deal between a willing seller
and land trust or public agency. The
land is appraised at the highest and
best use, and funds are transferred
from the purchaser to the seller for
‘D ouglas County has been a leader in using
conservation easements to preserve open space
by protecting private property rights.’
Reno director of the Carson River Project
for The Nature Conservancy
the development rights. The proper-
ty owner keeps title and all other
rights, such as access and agricultur-
al use, but the land must stay as it is
in perpetuity.
Each deal is tailored to fit the
seller’s needs.
“No two conservation easements
are exactly alike,” Petite said. “And
when a rancher sells an easement,
they don’t have to open it to the
public unless they want to.” One
rancher may not want hiking trails
or hunting on their pastures.
Another rancher may welcome
hunters, hikers and agencies
involved with wildlife habitat
restoration.
Petite said there are three ways to
fund conservation easements in
Nevada.
One is through the Southern
Nevada Public Lands Management
Act, which allows the Bureau of
Land Management to sell public
land in Las Vegas for development.
Money from the sale is used to
Duane Petite
fund conservation projects else-
where in the state.
The second comes from dona-
tions. A private property owner may
donate a conservation easement to
either a land trust, such as The
Nature Conservancy, or a public
agency, such as the forest service.
The land can be used by the public
or not, a decision that is totally up
to the landowner, Petite said.
Third, some funds are available
through the Question 1 Resource
Conservation Bond, a state grants
program approved by voters in
2002. Grants are awarded for the
purpose of protecting and preserv-
ing property and natural
resources. Funding through this
program is limited, and the state
lands administrator makes alloca-
tions based on reports from techni-
cal advisory groups.
The county has a transfer of
development rights program where-
by property owners can strip the
rights to develop their property and
Headlines in
Douglas County
conservation
1999 — Senate approves the
Southern Nevada Public Lands Act,
which allows the purchase of public
land in Southern Nevada
2000 — 788-acre River Fork Ranch
purchased
2001 — Sturgis Ranch donates con-
servation easement
2003 — The Bureau of Land
Management auctions off 144 acres of
land in northern Douglas County
across Highway 395 from Clear Creek
Plaza. Some money raised from the
sale will purchase conservation ease-
ments
2005 — Don Bently establishes con-
servation easement on the 1,000-acre
Kirman Field
2006 — Gardnerville’s Hussman
Ranch becomes first to complete the
sale of a conservation easement
2008 — Ranch No. 1 receives pre-
liminary recommendation for conser-
vation easement funds
2008 — Acquisition of Seeman
Ranch in Minden proposed
2008 — Easement set aside on
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sell them to a developer in a desig-
nated receiving area. An easement
then preserves the land and the
rancher can continue working the
property.
The program was put into place
in 1996 and revised in 2001 to give
ranchers a bonus, according to
Mimi Moss, Douglas County com-
munity development director. “For
example, instead of two develop-
ment rights per 19 acres, they could
have the potential of having 28
development rights per acre.”
A number of property owners
came forward to take advantage of
the revised program, and in almost
10 years the TDR program has set
aside 4,000 acres in Carson Valley,
Moss said.
Etchegoyhen believes a conserva-
tion easement, which requires that
the rancher adhere to the best man-
agement practices and have a con-
servation plan, provides valuable
cultural and economic benefits to
the community.
“Open space, especially irrigated
green open space, is precious in
Nevada. There is so little of it,” he
said. “And really, ranchers are the
best stewards of the land in the
West. They keep to those standards
and maybe take them a step further.
The ranchers stay on the land, and
the water rights are permanently
retained on the property.”
Etchegoyhen said although
money for preservation has slowed
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A sign at the Hussman Ranch proclaims the land is now permanently protected from develop-
ment.
recently due to the economic down-
turn, Douglas County interest in
conservation easements has
increased.
“When you look back 10 years,
the amount of conservation that’s
been accomplished has been stag-
gering,” he said. “I think when the
county first contemplated its open
space plan, we thought we could
conserve 20,000, maybe 25,000
acres total over the next 20 years or
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more. Now, we’re guardedly looking
at more like 30,000. That’s proba-
bly ambitious, but you’ve got to
have a goal.”
Etchegoyhen said there are plans
to have a big party when the deal
— which has been approved —
finally closes with BLM on the con-
servation easement for Trimmer
Ranch No. 1, possibly late 2010.
Etechegoyhen said the 350-acre
ranch, located mostly east of Jacks
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“From a landscape standpoint,”
he said, “it would be so wonderful
to drive into Genoa from two direc-
tions and have that ranch be there
forever — from a historical perspec-
tive as well as a resource and con-
servation perspective.”
Robert and Sarah Trimmer
bought the ranch in 1909 from the
Frey family, and their great-grand-
daughters, Lisa Lekumberry and her
husband, J.B., Terry Billman and her
husband, Cory, and Sheri Walters
and her husband, Dan, celebrated
its 100th anniversary this year.
The ranch has a stone building
constructed about 1860 and a barn
built in the 1880s. The main ranch
house dates to 1885. The ranch
originally was staked by Col. John
Reese (who built Mormon Station)
when Nevada became a state in
1864. Today, the family operates
Trimmer Outpost, where they sell
handmade gifts, home décor and
ranch-raised grass-fed beef.
HUSSMAN RANCH
In 2006, the David and Kathi
Hussman Ranch sold the first con-
servation easement in Nevada
under the Southern Nevada Public
Lands Management Act in a project
coordinated by the American Land
Conservancy with BLM. As owner of
the easement, BLM is responsible
for ensuring the contract
provisions are adhered to.
The Hussman family has
been operating the ranch
since 1872, when
Hussman’s great-grandfa-
ther purchased the property.
The National Resource
Conservation Service classi-
fied the ranch as a “farm-
land of statewide and local
importance” because of its
fertile soils and location.
“We all love driving south
of Gardnerville and seeing
Jobs Peak and the Carson
Range and seeing David and
Kathi Hussman’s sheep,”
Etchegoyhen said, “and now
that is protected forever.”
KIRMAN FIELD
Volunteers, including
Eagle Scouts, area business
people and members of the
Carson Valley Trails
Association, constructed
about four miles of hiking
trail on a conservation ease-
ment known as Kirman
Field located on the Carson
River.
The Nature Conservancy
worked with Don Bently,
the Kirman Field property
owner, and Nevada
Department of Wildlife to
secure funding from the
Question 1 Resource
Don Bently speaks during a 2005 presentation about a conservation easement on his Kirman Field property. The ease-
ment purchased by The Nature Conservancy for $1.5 million will protect 1,027 acres along the Carson River in Douglas
County.
Conservation Bond in 2005.
Bently accepted $500,000
less for the easement’s $2
million appraised value.
The Nature Conservancy is
developing a plan of preser-
vation and improvement for
the Kirman property’s criti-
cal migratory bird breeding
habitat. The easement will
also protect the river, its
channels and floodplain.
The trail, which is expect-
ed to open in 2010, will
offer the public access to
natural areas and spectacu-
lar views.
Kirman Field continues to
be a working cattle ranch
and the trail will only be
open to hikers, with no
horses, bikes or pets
allowed.
Belinda Grant
CLEAR CREEK
Thanks to a donation
from Clear Creek Tahoe in
2008, 853 acres featuring
stretches of Clear Creek, an
important source of water
to the Carson watershed,
are permanently protected
by a conservation easement
donated to The Nature
Conservancy.
“It never will be devel-
oped,” said Clear Creek
Tahoe managing partner
Jim Taylor, “because it
shouldn’t be. We wanted to
make the statement that
this project cares about that
property, and this is a clear
example of how we want to
make that statement.”
The Clear Creek Tahoe
project includes 1,576 acres,
384 home lots and a golf
course. Taylor pointed to
ways the partners are com-
mitted to preservation. The
temporary clubhouse is
being built of trees harvest-
ed on site and the golf
course is watered with treat-
ed effluent from Incline
Village. Excess water from
irrigation goes back into the
water table.
“Bioswales, natural
drainage using landscaping
and dirt instead of curbs
and sewers, capture the
water and keep it on site,”
Taylor explained. By being
left in its natural state the
easement will help keep the
creek waters clean.
The property’s proximity
to U.S. Forest Service and
Washoe Tribal land will add
to preserved winter mule
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 RIVER FORK RANCH/CRAWFORD PARCEL
More than 788 acres of flood-
plain were protected in 2000 when
The Nature Conservancy partnered
with the Timken-Sturgis Foundation
to purchase the River Fork Ranch,
located south of Genoa at the con-
fluence of the east and west forks of
the Carson River.
Sustainable grazing practices are
being followed on the ranch, oper-
ated by Bently Agrowdynamics.
Restoration on the river has begun
and public access will be allowed. A
trail system is expected to open in
spring of 2010 and an ecologically
friendly visitor center is being
planned.
The River Fork Ranch project pro-
tects key wetlands and riparian
habitats on three miles of the
Carson River. With an anonymous
$200,000 donation in 2006, The
Nature Conservancy also purchased
the 17-acre Crawford parcel, sur-
rounded on three sides by the River
Fork Ranch. Landowners Craig and
Miya Crawford agreed to sell the
parcel below the property’s
appraised value.
The parcel helped increase the
River Fork Ranch’s ability to sup-
port breeding populations of sand-
hill cranes and other migratory
shore birds. The property includes a
pond that provides habitat for tur-
tles and frogs. The addition of the
Crawford parcel brings the River
Fork Ranch to a total of 805 acres.
The Crawford residence is expected
to be part of the visitor center com-
plex.
“In 2007,” Petite said, “we added
an extra layer of permanent protec-
tion to the ranch by selling a con-
servation easement over the proper-
ty to the BLM.” Funds for this pur-
chase came through the Southern
Nevada Public Lands Management
Act.
STURGIS RANCH
In 2001, the Sturgis family donat-
ed a conservation easement on their
734-acre west Carson Valley ranch
to The Nature Conservancy. They
retained control over their ranch
operations and are not allowing
public access, but the easement
ensures that the property will be
completely protected in the future,
Petite said.
The BLM recently completed
easements on the White Dairy (139
acres), Scossa Ranches (532 acres)
and Stodieck Brothers parcel (146
acres) with assistance from the U.S.
Forest Service realty staff, according
to Daniel L. Jacquet, community
liaison for the Carson City office of
BLM.

High Sierra Fellowship

“Your word is a lamp unto my feet and a light unto my path.” – Psalms 119:105

Church
Sunday Service • 8:45am & 10:30am
Wednesday 7:00pm • Bible Study, Youth Group, Club Impact (Pre-teen)

Other Ministries
Women’s Bible Study • Men’s Bible Study • Prayer Meetings • Kids Clubs

Pastor Rich Lammay

DIRECTORY For more information, please call
782-7846 or visit www.hsfellowship.org

1426 Industrial Way • Gardnerville

The Cross
Christian Fellowship
Carson Valley
United Methodist Church
“A place for you and your teen” Building on over 150 years of service in the valley.

Sunday Service ~ 5 pm Early Service & Sunday School • 8:30am

Youth Group Tuesday ~ 5:30 pm
Traditional Service & Sunday School • 11:00am
See you at The Cross!
811 Short Court, Suite B Child Care provided from
Gardnerville Ranchos • Next to Pizza Factory 8:00am until 12:00 noon
Pastor Dennis Bertucci • 781-2223
All are welcome!

Rev. Pete Nelson • 782-4600

“A Place for You and Your Family”

Coming Soon:
Our permanent home at 1291 Centerville Lane in the Heart of the Gardnerville Ranchos

Services temporarily held at

Pau Wa Lu Middle School • 10am Sunday
VCF Ministry Center • 6:30pm Saturday
Administration Offices: Tillman Center, 1281 Kimmerling Road, Suite 12
Ministry Center: Tillman Center, behind Silver Strike Lanes, Suite 7

Our goal is to reach the lost, mature the saints, worship the Lord, and be led by the Spirit. 1375 Centerville Lane • Gardnerville
Pastor Leo Kruger • www.valleycf.org - 265-4100 www.carsonvalleyumc.com

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Eagles and Agriculture’s success tied to Valley
by Kurt Hildebrand
Pick a sunny day in late February
and chances are someone will be
standing along a fenceline looking
out over Carson Valley’s open fields
with a pair of binoculars or a big
camera.
Those people aren’t enjoying the
scenery or trying to capture a cow
giving birth.
Their interest lies in what’s
attracted by what’s left over from
the birth.
Eagles.
Chances of spotting an eagle in
Northern Nevada are pretty slim
any other time of year.
But during calving season in the
last weeks of winter, the big birds of
prey turn out to feed, and people
turn out to see the once endangered
national bird.
In 2000, rancher Arnold
Settelmeyer told the story about
Shannon Litz
someone who climbed a fence to Pat and John King of Washoe Valley watch an eagle at Mack Land & Cattle on Feb. 23, 2008. The Eagles and Agriculture tour stopped at Valley ranch-
try and get a better look. Bothering es to look for birds and learn about this history of the area.
the cows didn’t improve the Development District, Natural defend themselves from an increas- one wants agriculture to leave how-
tourist’s view, but it did prompt Resources Conservation Service, ingly urban population. ever, as we grow, agriculture is
ranchers and their supporters to Carson Valley Conservation District, Lewis points out that the popula- pushed away.”
come up with a way to corral the and local ranchers met in 2003 to tion of the county has almost dou- Eagles provided an answer.
tourists. discuss an event to promote agricul- bled in the last 20 years. “The presence of bald eagles dur-
University of Nevada Cooperative ture. “The agriculture community ing calving had inspired the RC&D
Extension Educator Steve Lewis said Besides keeping their property found themselves spending more coordinator to take small groups of
representatives from the Western safe from random visitors, ranchers time in meetings defending the people out on farms and ranches to
Nevada Resource Conservation & felt they were constantly having to agricultural industry,” he said. “No get a closer look,” Lewis said.

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 The tour was established in
2003, with the help of Valley ranch-
ers, the Carson Valley Chamber of
Commerce, the American Land
Conservancy, the Smallwood
Foundation, the Cooperative
Extension, Western Nevada
Resource Conservation and
Development.
Lewis estimated that there have
been 3,598 participants in Eagles
and Agriculture over the last seven
years.
He said that there never seems to
be enough information.
“The appetite for additional
information sharing is strong and
realized by the public, local media
and the agriculture community,” he
said.
The event has prompted ranchers
to come up with other ways to use
people’s interest in agriculture.
Lewis said one ranch started an
antique business and conducts his-
torical tours. Others have begun
work on locally grown meat and
produce.
“Ranchers have learned that the
public wants to support local agri-
culture and purchase locally grown
meat and produce,” he said. “As a
result, a niche livestock marketing
group was formed to investigate the
feasibility of a slaughter and pro-
cessing facility.”
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The eagle watching bystanders below it while it was perched in the Hanging Tree in Genoa.
Commerce Director Bill Chernock
said the event generates about 90
room nights and a direct expendi-
ture of at least $50,000 from the
250 or so registered participants.
“We also believe that a number
of additional people visit the Valley
around the time of the event
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because they know the probability
of sightings is high,” he said. “The
greater impact is in the press expo-
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nic beauty and affordability. We
also believe that the event has
brought a number of people to
Carson Valley as first time visitors
who have since made additional
trips here.”
Chernock said the event’s success
is due to the many different groups
that come together to support the
event.
“The many agencies and groups
that cooperate to deliver their areas
of expertise in presenting the event,
the willingness of Carson Valley
ranchers to allow attendees access
to their property, the birding, histo-
ry and photography experts that
volunteer their time to serve as
guides, the relative scarceness of
opportunities to reliably view bald
eagles and the overall attractiveness
of the area,” he said. “In total it
produces a combination of the ele-
ments of agriculture, wildlife, and
scenic beauty that is difficult to
match.”
Chernock said lessons that can be
taken away from Eagles and
Agriculture include building a qual-
ity organizing group, and some-
thing more.
“It requires a commitment to
providing an exceptional experi-
ence, and creating an event that is
honestly tied to the attributes of the
Carson Valley,” he said.
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