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Reserve users are a hardy and tolerant group. Drawn by the unparalleled research and teaching opportunities offered by NRS sites, they’ll endure almost anything. But why should a world-class research team have to work in a makeshift wet lab set up in a reserve bathroom? Why should a university field class of fifteen students have to bunk in a cabin built to house a couple of ranch hands? Wouldn’t it be great if a school group didn’t have to cancel a long-planned field trip because a reserve’s only classroom is outdoors and it’s raining?
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Most NRS facilities, if they exist at all, consist of older buildings maintained on shoestring budgets and augmented by staff ingenuity, dedication, and hard work. More and more people are coming to NRS reserves, and many of them require advanced technology and facilities. The reserves are responding to their needs with carefully developed plans for new and renovated facilities. Please consider the projects listed below, and if you wish to support any of them, call the NRS systemwide office at 510-987-0159.
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Project List
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Site: Boyd Deep Canyon Desert Research Center
Facility: Classroom and laboratory building
Status: Design and planning underway
Purpose: Meeting space and laboratory to support teaching and research.
Funding: Lloyd Tevis Boyd Deep Canyon Fund
Total Cost: $1.25 million
Detailed Information...
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Site: James San Jacinto Mountains Reserve
Facilities: Research and engineering headquarters; researcher housing compound; renovation of group housing; renovation of original log home; and expansion of solar-photovoltaic system
Status: Rough plans complete
Purpose: Support national environmental research projects and class visits
Funding: Planning supported by Dean Witter Foundation
Construction not yet funded
Total Cost: $2 million
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| Site: Hastings Natural History Reservation
Facility: Public education/science center
Status: Planning complete
Purpose: Meeting and housing space for educational
programs and storage for reserve collections
Funding: Fundraising underway
Total Cost: $3.5 million
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Site: Sedgwick Reserve
Facility: Field Station infrastructure improvements
Status: Planning and environmental review, access road upgrade, photovoltaic electrical system installation have been completed;
Projects currently under construction include wastewater treatment system, Tipton Meeting House, single family residence and historic hay barn renovation.
Purpose: New and renovated facilities for research, education, and staff housing
Funding: Road, solar and water system upgrades, the Tipton Meeting House, Las Cumbres Observatory and Director's Residence funded by private sources; wastewater treatment project funded by National Science Foundation; fundraising underway for construction of dormitory and renovation of existing buildings.
Total Cost: $13 million
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Site: Stunt Ranch Reserve
Facility: Nature Center/Classroom/Research Facilities
Status: Funding is secured. Plans awaiting final approval
Purpose: To support the reserve's award winning K-12 outreach and research programs.
Funding: UCLA and NRS funds matched by Proposition 84 Funds
Total Cost: $1.93 million
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