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Dave Drennan, 1994
Dave Drennan is an RPF now retired from CAL FIRE. He was given the award in 1994 for his archaeological survey efforts while working as a CAL FIRE Forest Practice Inspector in southern Humboldt County. In 1993, Dave rediscovered a petroglyph site along the Eel River during his field inspection for a Timber Harvesting Plan. The site (CA-TRI-1, Slakaiya Rock see article under "Rock Art"), contains one of the spectacular rock art panels ever found in the North Coast Range. It was originally reported in 1911 by a railroad worker but was lost to science for over eighty years until Dave¡¦s discovery relocated it some four miles distant from its mapped location. Dave waded across the river to search for possible archaeological sites in an area that would not have been disturbed by the proposed logging operations, and discovered the rock art panel in a rock shelter amongst a cluster of large boulders. He led a team of archaeologists back to the site to fully record it, and facilitated additional research that led to a published report and made a major contribution to rock art research in California.



