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Saturday, April 08, 2017In 2006, Jr acquired Bull Basin Archery. He was thrilled to have a business where he could share his expertise and passion for hunting and archery with others. He was well known throughout the region as an expert in the field of archery hunting. Friends and customers came from all over Arizona to share stories and purchase from Jr what they needed for a successful hunt. Bull Basin Archery is a thriving business due to Jr’s excellent business sense and because he truly cared about his customers – he wanted to excite others about archery and was an honest man with tremendous integrity. Jr considered his children Harli, age 24, and Trey, age 21 (from his previous marriage with Trisha Weaver), and step-son Garrett, age 27, the most important part of his life. He was an amazing father who always put his children first; they were an integral part of every aspect of his life. He thoroughly enjoyed many interests in life including: helping those in need, hunting, spending time outdoors, sports and watching his kids play hockey. He enjoyed and played baseball during his high school years for Coconino. Jr had many skills including construction and roping, both of which he learned from his father.Jr began team roping when he was 8 years old; he quickly advanced from a Heeler to a very proficient Header. He attended Central Arizona College on a Rodeo Scholarship. Jr cherished his memories of roping with his family and friends.John Austin Decker touched the lives of so many and he is, and will always, be deeply missed by his friends, family and all who knew him.An open-house Celebration of Life will be Sunday, April 2, between 1 and 5 pm, at Viola’s Flower Garden, located at S. State Route 89A, Flagstaff, AZ 86005. (Formerly Jackson’s Grill, a half mile from the Coconino County Fairgrounds).In lieu of flowers, donations can be made to Flagstaff Archers for the Junior Decker Memorial Youth Archery Fund to support youth archery in Flagstaff. To donate, contact Martin at 928-853-2298. Cards can be mailed to Laura Decker, 6126 N. Wrangler Rd, Flagstaff, AZ 86004. Memories and condolences can also be sent to the family online at www.norvelowensmortuary.com Sign up to get each day's obituaries sent to your email inbox .whatcounts-form-container.well { paddin...
Monday, March 27, 2017Ph. D. in 1963 in botany and zoology and was hired to teach at the University of Denver. While there, he started the Colorado chapter of The Nature Conservancy, served on ski patrol at Arapahoe Basin, and helped start the DU Alpine Club. He honed his skiing skills while in Colorado, and skiing became a lifelong passion he shared with family and friends.Bob was hired by the U.S. Forest Service in 1966 to study ecology in Minnesota’s million-acre Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness. Over the next three years he was able to hike and canoe most of the trails and lakes in the BWCA. During this period, Bob met Dr. Dave Mech, who was studying wolves in Isle Royale National Park in Michigan, and began assisting Dave there and in the BWCA. This was the only area in the lower 48 states then inhabited by wolves, and Bob was with Dave in 1968 when the team captured the first wolf and radio-collared it. In 1969, Bob was offered a faculty position in the University of Montana’s School of Forestry by Dean Arnold Bolle, a noted conservation leader, and moved to the state he would call home for the rest of his life. He began the Wolf Ecology Project in 1973 and determined no established pack or breeding pair existed in Montana. He received funding to hire two biologists, and in 1979 they trapped a wolf in the North Fork of the Flathead River valley and tracked her for a year and a half. This wolf found a mate and produced seven pups in 1982, marking the first pack documented in the northern U.S. Rockies in at least 50 years. By 1995, Bob estimated 80 wolves resided in northwest Montana, and wolves now appear to have become a stable part of Montana’s wildlife ecosystem again. Bob was well known for heading up the Wolf Ecology Project, but he took most pride in the Wilderness and Civilization Program he established at UM in 1975. The W&C Program is an interdisciplinary program providing students an opportunity to explore humans’ relationship to wilderness and civilization, and includes faculty from wilderness management, ecology, philosophy, Native American studies, economics, creative writing, and others. The program begins each fall with a 10-12 day backpack trip, combining outdoor skills with education. Bob often described how students’ inhibitions dissolved during the trip, which stimulated lively class discussions once they returned to their traditional classroom settings. Thousands of students studied with Bob during his tenure at UM, in courses such as resource conservation, large mammal conservation, wildlife ecology and management, habitat management, and wilderness management, and Bob helped launch the careers of many talented conservationists. Bob capped his UM career as Acting Dean of the School of Forestry from 1993-1994.Bob was passionately involved in politics. He served in the Montana Legislature as a representative from Missoula from 1983-1997, where he distinguished himself on fish and game, taxation, and natural resource issues, sponsoring Montana’s stream access law, mini-Superfund law, and restitution payments for illegally taken wildlife, among others. Bob served as Chair of the Montana Democratic Party from 1997-2005, a period in which the Party saw significant electoral gains at the legislative and statewide levels. Bob’s other professional accomplishments incl...
Monday, January 16, 2017Petroleum Geologists.Jim Sorenson, principal geologist at the Energy and Environmental Research Center at UND, described LeFever as a “fantastic geologist” who knew the oil-rich Williston Basin in western North Dakota “better than anyone.”“She was the kind of person you could call up and talk rocks anytime,” Sorenson said of LeFever, whom he’d known professionally since the early 2000s. “As far as legacy, she’s renowned throughout North America as the expert on Bakken geology. I don’t think anybody had as deep an understanding on the rocks of the Bakken as Julie LeFever, and I think you could go from Texas, to Manitoba and Saskatchewan and they’d say the same.”Ed Murphy, the state geologist for North Dakota, said he and LeFever shared an office in the early 1980s. When the North Dakota Geological Survey moved to Bismarck from its former location near UND, LeFever stayed behind as director of the core and sample library.“She didn’t have office space any longer, so she moved into a lab setting in the core library,” Murphy remembered. “Her desk was a lab bench and a lab stool, which is as non-ergonomical as you can get. That was her office for the next 19 years. She had a bookcase for walls and no door, but she didn’t complain.”Remodeling of the library in 2008 made space for LeFever to move into an actual office before the overhaul of the facility completed last summer.Murphy also spoke of LeFever’s extensive knowledge of the Bakken Formation. Her expertise in the library was to the benefit of many new geologists coming to the state as part of the most recent oil boom, he said, and her research on the Pronghorn Member of the formation had actually helped pay for the library in which she worked.Whiting Petroleum Corp., Murphy said, attributed the discovery of oil in the Pronghorn Member to a line of inquiry followed...
Monday, December 19, 2016Senator-elect Catherine Cortez Masto called Carpenter “the definition of a public servant, someone who dedicated his entire life to serving Elko and helping his community grow and thrive. From Great Basin College and the Elko Convention Center to the creation of the payment in lieu of taxes law, John is leaving behind a tangible legacy, and Elko is a better place because of his single-minded devotion spanning so many decades.”Republican state Attorney General Adam Laxalt said Carpenter “consistently gave his all to the people of Nevada. I know the residents of Elko will forever be touched by all of the wonderful contributions he made to the community, and I extend my deepest condolences to his family and loved ones in this difficult time.”Others expressing their condolences include U.S. Sen. Dean Heller, R-Nev., and Assemblyman Elliot Anderson, D-Las Vegas, via Twitter.Carpenter was first elected to the Nevada Assembly in 1986.He was honored by the Assembly for his service in 2009. Then-Speaker Barbara Buckley, D-Las Vegas, described Carpenter as someone who “always votes his conscience and is never swayed by politics, partisanship and the popularity of an issue. He figures out what he thinks is right and that’s how he votes.”His successor, Assemblyman John Ellison of Elko, posted on his Facebook page about Carpenter’s death.“Our hearts are heavy and filled with great sadness that we had to tell an amazing man, leader, and friend goodbye yesterday,” he wrote. “He was a great friend of mine. Nevada has lost a true leader.”A funeral will be held at the Elko Convention Center at 10 a.m. on Saturday.Contact Sean Whaley at swhaley@reviewjournal.com or 775-461-3820. Follow @seanw801 on Twitter.
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Saturday, April 08, 2017In 2006, Jr acquired Bull Basin Archery. He was thrilled to have a business where he could share his expertise and passion for hunting and archery with others. He was well known throughout the region as an expert in the field of archery hunting. Friends and customers came from all over Arizona to share stories and purchase from Jr what they needed for a successful hunt. Bull Basin Archery is a thriving business due to Jr’s excellent business sense and because he truly cared about his customers – he wanted to excite others about archery and was an honest man with tremendous integrity. Jr considered his children Harli, age 24, and Trey, age 21 (from his previous marriage with Trisha Weaver), and step-son Garrett, age 27, the most important part of his life. He was an amazing father who always put his children first; they were an integral part of every aspect of his life. He thoroughly enjoyed many interests in life including: helping those in need, hunting, spending time outdoors, sports and watching his kids play hockey. He enjoyed and played baseball during his high school years for Coconino. Jr had many skills including construction and roping, both of which he learned from his father.Jr began team roping when he was 8 years old; he quickly advanced from a Heeler to a very proficient Header. He attended Central Arizona College on a Rodeo Scholarship. Jr cherished his memories of roping with his family and friends.John Austin Decker touched the lives of so many and he is, and will always, be deeply missed by his friends, family and all who knew him.An open-house Celebration of Life will be Sunday, April 2, between 1 and 5 pm, at Viola’s Flower Garden, located at S. State Route 89A, Flagstaff, AZ 86005. (Formerly Jackson’s Grill, a half mile from the Coconino County Fairgrounds).In lieu of flowers, donations can be made to Flagstaff Archers for the Junior Decker Memorial Youth Archery Fund to support youth archery in Flagstaff. To donate, contact Martin at 928-853-2298. Cards can be mailed to Laura Decker, 6126 N. Wrangler Rd, Flagstaff, AZ 86004. Memories and condolences can also be sent to the family online at www.norvelowensmortuary.com Sign up to get each day's obituaries sent to your email inbox .whatcounts-form-container.well { paddin...
Monday, March 27, 2017Ph. D. in 1963 in botany and zoology and was hired to teach at the University of Denver. While there, he started the Colorado chapter of The Nature Conservancy, served on ski patrol at Arapahoe Basin, and helped start the DU Alpine Club. He honed his skiing skills while in Colorado, and skiing became a lifelong passion he shared with family and friends.Bob was hired by the U.S. Forest Service in 1966 to study ecology in Minnesota’s million-acre Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness. Over the next three years he was able to hike and canoe most of the trails and lakes in the BWCA. During this period, Bob met Dr. Dave Mech, who was studying wolves in Isle Royale National Park in Michigan, and began assisting Dave there and in the BWCA. This was the only area in the lower 48 states then inhabited by wolves, and Bob was with Dave in 1968 when the team captured the first wolf and radio-collared it. In 1969, Bob was offered a faculty position in the University of Montana’s School of Forestry by Dean Arnold Bolle, a noted conservation leader, and moved to the state he would call home for the rest of his life. He began the Wolf Ecology Project in 1973 and determined no established pack or breeding pair existed in Montana. He received funding to hire two biologists, and in 1979 they trapped a wolf in the North Fork of the Flathead River valley and tracked her for a year and a half. This wolf found a mate and produced seven pups in 1982, marking the first pack documented in the northern U.S. Rockies in at least 50 years. By 1995, Bob estimated 80 wolves resided in northwest Montana, and wolves now appear to have become a stable part of Montana’s wildlife ecosystem again. Bob was well known for heading up the Wolf Ecology Project, but he took most pride in the Wilderness and Civilization Program he established at UM in 1975. The W&C Program is an interdisciplinary program providing students an opportunity to explore humans’ relationship to wilderness and civilization, and includes faculty from wilderness management, ecology, philosophy, Native American studies, economics, creative writing, and others. The program begins each fall with a 10-12 day backpack trip, combining outdoor skills with education. Bob often described how students’ inhibitions dissolved during the trip, which stimulated lively class discussions once they returned to their traditional classroom settings. Thousands of students studied with Bob during his tenure at UM, in courses such as resource conservation, large mammal conservation, wildlife ecology and management, habitat management, and wilderness management, and Bob helped launch the careers of many talented conservationists. Bob capped his UM career as Acting Dean of the School of Forestry from 1993-1994.Bob was passionately involved in politics. He served in the Montana Legislature as a representative from Missoula from 1983-1997, where he distinguished himself on fish and game, taxation, and natural resource issues, sponsoring Montana’s stream access law, mini-Superfund law, and restitution payments for illegally taken wildlife, among others. Bob served as Chair of the Montana Democratic Party from 1997-2005, a period in which the Party saw significant electoral gains at the legislative and statewide levels. Bob’s other professional accomplishments incl...
Monday, January 16, 2017Petroleum Geologists.Jim Sorenson, principal geologist at the Energy and Environmental Research Center at UND, described LeFever as a “fantastic geologist” who knew the oil-rich Williston Basin in western North Dakota “better than anyone.”“She was the kind of person you could call up and talk rocks anytime,” Sorenson said of LeFever, whom he’d known professionally since the early 2000s. “As far as legacy, she’s renowned throughout North America as the expert on Bakken geology. I don’t think anybody had as deep an understanding on the rocks of the Bakken as Julie LeFever, and I think you could go from Texas, to Manitoba and Saskatchewan and they’d say the same.”Ed Murphy, the state geologist for North Dakota, said he and LeFever shared an office in the early 1980s. When the North Dakota Geological Survey moved to Bismarck from its former location near UND, LeFever stayed behind as director of the core and sample library.“She didn’t have office space any longer, so she moved into a lab setting in the core library,” Murphy remembered. “Her desk was a lab bench and a lab stool, which is as non-ergonomical as you can get. That was her office for the next 19 years. She had a bookcase for walls and no door, but she didn’t complain.”Remodeling of the library in 2008 made space for LeFever to move into an actual office before the overhaul of the facility completed last summer.Murphy also spoke of LeFever’s extensive knowledge of the Bakken Formation. Her expertise in the library was to the benefit of many new geologists coming to the state as part of the most recent oil boom, he said, and her research on the Pronghorn Member of the formation had actually helped pay for the library in which she worked.Whiting Petroleum Corp., Murphy said, attributed the discovery of oil in the Pronghorn Member to a line of inquiry followed...
Monday, December 19, 2016Senator-elect Catherine Cortez Masto called Carpenter “the definition of a public servant, someone who dedicated his entire life to serving Elko and helping his community grow and thrive. From Great Basin College and the Elko Convention Center to the creation of the payment in lieu of taxes law, John is leaving behind a tangible legacy, and Elko is a better place because of his single-minded devotion spanning so many decades.”Republican state Attorney General Adam Laxalt said Carpenter “consistently gave his all to the people of Nevada. I know the residents of Elko will forever be touched by all of the wonderful contributions he made to the community, and I extend my deepest condolences to his family and loved ones in this difficult time.”Others expressing their condolences include U.S. Sen. Dean Heller, R-Nev., and Assemblyman Elliot Anderson, D-Las Vegas, via Twitter.Carpenter was first elected to the Nevada Assembly in 1986.He was honored by the Assembly for his service in 2009. Then-Speaker Barbara Buckley, D-Las Vegas, described Carpenter as someone who “always votes his conscience and is never swayed by politics, partisanship and the popularity of an issue. He figures out what he thinks is right and that’s how he votes.”His successor, Assemblyman John Ellison of Elko, posted on his Facebook page about Carpenter’s death.“Our hearts are heavy and filled with great sadness that we had to tell an amazing man, leader, and friend goodbye yesterday,” he wrote. “He was a great friend of mine. Nevada has lost a true leader.”A funeral will be held at the Elko Convention Center at 10 a.m. on Saturday.Contact Sean Whaley at swhaley@reviewjournal.com or 775-461-3820. Follow @seanw801 on Twitter.
