Conrad Communications

New publication blends science and policy

As you may know, the Great Basin, which is most of Nevada and parts of other western states, is made up of huge, fire-prone rangelands.

My former employer, and my current employer, came together with various state and federal agencies (at the urging of Resource Concepts, Inc. in Carson City), and presented a forum at the University of Nevada, Reno. Eminent range scientists were gathered to give their recommendations about Nevada’s fire problem, and what can be done, if anything, about it.

The resulting work was just released as a 44-page publication called, “Great Basin Wildfire Forum: The Search for Solutions.”

The sheep are back grazing cheatgrass in the hills of Carson City, Nevada. Ann Bollinger from Carson City Parks and Open Space discusses the grazing project and how targeted grazing can be used to help manage invasive weeds and protect homes from wildfires.

This is an example of government communications that takes advantage of social media opportunities, in this case, Youtube.

I took a trip to Anaheim his last weekend to blog live from the Winter 2008 NAMM Show. Namm is essentially the world’s largest music-manufacturers showcase. I spent most of the time in the drum hall (I’m a drummer), interviewed some of the independent drum manufacturers, got to meet one of my drumming idols, Steve Smith, and spent three days documenting the event with still images.

Here’s a video of the event.

Our long-time friend and client, Sam Edwards (Eureka Productions), was recenly featured on Capital Public Radio discussing his new book, Watching the Sixties Go By on Greenwhich Village Time. Listen here.

This site has been receiving some nice attention lately.

The culprit is the brainiac over at Freakonomics blog on the New York Times Web site, who linked to an article we wrote more than a year ago about a researcher who studied beauty as a motivator for donating. The story received some nice media attention locally, when Bob was working at the University of Nevada, and 20/20 did a piece on it nationally. The hook was a University of Nevada researcher co-authored the study.