GRAND CANYON RIVER GUIDES INC AKA GCRG
515 W Birch St, Flagstaff, AZ 86001 www.gcrg.org

Total Revenue
$211,765
Total Expenses
$162,601
Net Assets
$251,443

Organizations Filed Purposes: Educational environmental protecting the Grand Canyon, setting the highest standards for the river guiding profession, celebrating the unique spirit of river community providing best possible river experience.

BOATMANS QUARTERLY REVIEW BQR - The BQR is GCRGs keynote publication a distinct service to the river running community.This 48-page journal is published quarterly, written produced by the organizations members as well as National Park Service representatives, members of the Grand Canyon scientific community, and others. The BQR includes educational, scientific, historical and training articles for the organizations general and guide members as well as articles on resource management challenges new threats to Grand Canyon.This allows the organization to educate about important issues generate advocacy for wise-use stewardship of Grand Canyon the Colorado River.The BQR was published four times in FY 2020, with a circulation of approximately 1,700. In FY 2020, GCRG completed work on a project providing web access to three decades worth of BQRs.Thumbnail images of BQR covers were paired with the respective .pdfs in order to highlight the evolution of our newsletter in a visually compelling manner, and continued at Schedule O

GUIDES TRAINING SEMINAR GTS - In Spring 2020, GCRG pivoted to a virtual learning platform after the cancellation of these longtime annual land river training sessions due to the Covid 19 pandemic. GCRG coordinated and held four Virtual GTS events V-GTS with two speakers per event. The range of topics included the human history of the Colorado River, current river science, resource management, canyon/river threats, indigenous perspectives and more. Recordings of the V-GTS event were subsequently made available on the GTS Library page of the GCRG website and shared with our community through our E-Newsletter, Boatmans Beta. These events were held without charge to our members and the interested public.

GLEN CANYON DAM ADAPTIVE MANAGEMENT PROGRAMS/LONGTERM EXPERIMENTAL MANAGEMENT PLAN LTEMP EIS - The organization represents recreational river running interests on the Federal Advisory Commitee FACA charged with advising the US Secretary of the Interior on how to best manage Glen Canyon Dam to comply with the mandates of the Grand Canyon Protection Act. In FY 2020, GCRG representatives participated in meetings, webinars, workshops conference calls of the Technical Work Group TWG, the Adaptive Management Work Group AMWG, the Flow Ad Hoc Group, and Budget Ad Hoc Group of the Glen Canyon Dam Adaptive Management Program. Throughout FY 2020, GCRG representatives communicated regularly with program stakeholders, federal agencies and scientists from the Grand Canyon Monitoring Research Center GCMRC. In order to better educate the river running public, our Glen Canyon Adaptive Management Program representatives wrote and published an article in Volume 32 4 Winter 2019/2020 of the Boatmans Quarterly Review continued at Schedule O

Executives Listed on Filing

Total Salary includes financial earnings, benefits, and all related organization earnings listed on tax filing

NameTitleHours Per WeekTotal Salary
Lynn HamiltonExecutive Director staff, nonvoting30$44,972
Paul Lauck JrDirector2$6,930
Margeaux BestardPresident 9/1/19 forwardVP prior4$90
Billie Prosser From 912019Director2$0
Lars Haarr From 912019Director2$0
Mariah Giardina From 912019Director2$0
Mara DrazinaDirector retired 8/31/20192$0
Lynne WesterfieldDirector2$0
Justin SalamonDirector2$0
Derik SpiceDirector retired 8/31/20192$0
Thea ShermanDirector retired 8/31/20192$0
Al NeillVice President from 9/1/20194$0
Fred TheveninSecretary/Treasurer retired 12/31/194$0
Steve NicholsonPresident retired 8/31/198$0

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