Wednesday, March 7, 2018 The Nugget Newspaper, Sisters, Oregon
Sisters skier headed to nationals
Eighteen-year-old Minam
Cravens of Sisters will com-
pete in the 2018 U.S. Alpine
National Championships and
the 2018 U.S. Alpine Junior
National Championships. The
events will be held in Sun
Valley, Idaho, March 20-30.
The selection process is based
on U.S. Ski and Snowboard
National points and qualifier
race results.
Cravens is a Mount
Bachelor Sports Education
Foundation athlete. He is also
a team member of the Western
Region Elite Ski Team
(WEST). The team is made
up of seven men and nine
women from the nine Western
states (Oregon, Washington,
Idaho, Wyoming, Montana,
Utah, Nevada, California
and Alaska). The 2017/2018
WEST training projects have
been held in Chile, Germany,
Italy, and multiple locations
across the United States.
Last season Cravens
was awarded the Schwabe
Award for outstanding ath-
lete in the Pacific Northwest
Ski Association Division
(PNSA). In March of 2015,
Minam won the slalom, sec-
ond in giant slalom, 10th in
super giant slalom and won
PHOTO PROVIDED
Minam Cravens will ski at the end of the month in the U.S. Llpine National
Championships and 2018 U.S. Llpine Junior National Championships.
the overall at the Western
Region Junior Olympics.
He is a lifelong resident
of Sisters and a graduate of
Cascades Academy. He was
a center defender for the
Sisters High School State
Championship soccer team
in 2016. At the age of 15
months he started skiing with
his parents at Mt. Bachelor.
His father, Rob Cravens, is
an alpine coach for Mount
Bachelor Sports Education
Foundation (MBSEF) and a
former Bend Fire Department
captain/paramedic. His
mother, Teresa Cravens, is
a former Nordic coach for
MBSEF, and a current race
administrator for MBSEF
and the PNSA division. She
is also the owner of a small
business in Bend.
Minam is coached by
MBSEF Program Director
Nils Erickson, MBSEF
Head FIS (Federation Of
International Skiing) Coach
Kent Towlerton, Western
Region Head Coach (former
US Team/World Cup athlete)
Will Brandenburg and his
father.
Exploring the science
of megafires
It may not feel like it out-
side, but fire season is on
its way. This March, local
partners are coming together
to offer presentations of
Era of Megafire for Central
Oregonians. The Deschutes
Land Trust, Sunriver Owners
Association, and Sisters-
Camp Sherman Fire District
are sponsoring events
in Bend, Sunriver, and
Sisters.
The Sisters event, with Dr.
Paul Hessburg, hosted at The
Belfry, is sponsored in part
by the Sisters Science Club.
Last year was a record fire
year with 9.1 million acres
burning in the U.S. More
than 680,000 acres burned
in Oregon alone, in at least
33 different fires, one of
which was a megafire that
burned over 190,000 acres.
Dr. Hessburg will present
to the audience an engag-
ing multimedia presentation
about wildfire, its natural
role in our local forests, and
how that role has changed.
Dr. Hessburg will present
the multiple options avail-
able to our community to
reshape the wildfire prob-
lem and how we can all
better learn to live with
fire.
Attend the event in Sisters
on Thursday, March 22, 6:30
to 8:30 p.m. at The Belfry.
Tickets will be available at
the door, donations will be
accepted but not required
(pre-registration is not
required).
Paul Hessburg, Ph.D., is
a research ecologist with the
Pacific Northwest Research
Station, U.S. Forest Service.
He has been studying his-
torical and modern-era for-
ests of the Inland West for
the last 32 years, publish-
ing extensively in leading
national and international
journals. His work docu-
ments large changes in for-
est conditions and how these
changes, along with climate
change, have set the stage
for large and severe wild-
fires. This presentation is an
outgrowth of his research
and his concerns for the
future.
The Belfry is located at
302 E. Main Ave.
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Sat., March 17
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Learn from our students’ exhibits
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Experiment with geology in the hi-tech sandbox
Meet Marley the owl • Ride the Impossible Bicycle
Watch Balloon Car Races • Enjoy the High Desert Museum
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Have fun with the entire family!
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