Conservationist Karen Jones

Conservationist Karen Jones

David Sparks Ph.D.
David Sparks Ph.D.
Karen Jones used to guide tourists, conservationists and hikers through the Sierra Nevada Mountains and got her start in college. “When I was 18, I went on a backpacking trip with my college. It was my college with Westmont College in Santa Barbara, and they had a trip. It was a 10 day backpacking trip before you started school and you got college credits. I signed up for it. I had never done anything like it at all. All I remember was you have an older brother that had gotten into backpacking when he was in college, and I remember going to drop him off at a trailhead to do the John Muir Trail. And it was sort of my first time being up in the mountains, dropping him off and sending him off backpacking. And I was like, oh my gosh, it's so beautiful out here. I want to do something like that someday. And the opportunity to do this trip came up. And so I went on as a student, did a 10 day backpacking trip, and it was just a great time. So after college, I went back and worked for that company that did the trip, Sierra Treck. You know, when you're on those trips, you learn a lot about and come to just really appreciate how precious our natural resources are and how beautiful the back country in the mountains and everything is. And so I just have always had a joy for enjoying the outdoors, but also of trying to help take care of it as well. A true conservationist.
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