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Becky Robertson, 1995

Becky RobertsonBecky Robertson is currently a Staff Chief in CAL FIRE's Southern Region Headquarters in Fresno. She received the Golden Trowel Award in 1995 in recognition of outstanding efforts to protect cultural resources as part of the environmental review of CAL FIRE's programs and projects in the Southern Region. During the early 1990's she served CAL FIRE as Forest Practice Inspector, Review Team Chairman, and Region Coordinator of VMP, CFIP, and other programs. She was committed to carry-out CAL FIRE's responsibility to identify and wisely manage archaeological sites throughout the Sierra Nevada and Central California regions. Through her outstanding ability to influence others, a heightened awareness for cultural resources spread through the entire forestry community in this area. Becky was instrumental in delivering the CAL FIRE Archaeology Program to the VMP program and contract counties in the Region. She helped make the initial contacts and reassured an apprehensive group that the archaeological review process CAL FIRE needed to carry out would not cripple the programs. Many such personnel have since developed outstanding cooperative relationships with CAL FIRE Archaeologists and Becky deserves recognition for helping develop the program. Her ability to influence others within the Department was demonstrated when she turned an incident of site damage that occurred during fire suppression activities into an environmental awareness training for CAL FIRE Heavy Fire Equipment Operators. The training not only included information on archaeology, but watercourse protection, and erosion control measures as well. Her ability to seize an opportunity to turn destruction into instruction is an example of a conscientious commitment to the protection of California's cultural resources.



 

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