Wildlife Rehabilitation & Release
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Board Meetings
Board meetings take place on the 2nd Wed. of each month, from 4:00 PM at the WRR Intake Center, 133A Joerschke Dr., Grass Valley. Contact Kim Franza at 530-615-7718 for more information.
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Current Board Members
President
Kim Franza
Kim is an active raptor rehabilitator and co-Raptor Team leader with Wildlife Rehabilitation and Release. She began working with WRR in early 2004. Kim has rehabilitated and released 18 species of raptors. She attends several continuing education classes or seminars each year in the field of raptor rehabilitation and care with the most recent a four day workshop at the University of Minnesota Raptor Center in October of 2009 focusing on handling of educational raptors and medical instruction.
Kim holds a special purpose possession permit with United States Fish and Wildlife Service for a Great Horned Owl and a Harris' Hawk. She presents these raptors to the public to promote understanding and protection of raptors.
Kim was previously a Director at Large on the WRR Board. She is a member of the California Council of Wildlife Rehabilitators and the National Wildlife Rehabilitator Association. She owns a small property management business in Arizona and California.
Vice-President
Laurel Gunderson
Laurel Gunderson began her volunteer work with Wildlife Rehabilitation and Release in 2007 and is co-leader of the Raptor Team.
Laurel has a B.S. degree in Zoology from San Jose State University and a B.S. degree from U. C. Davis in Landscape Architecture. She recently completed a four day course in "The Care and Management of Raptors", sponsored by the University of Minnesota College of Veterinary Sciences.
Laurel shares her passionate interest in wildlife, especially raptors and ravens, with her husband Eric. They are the keepers and handlers of two WRR Educational Ambassadors – Tecumseh the Red-tailed Hawk and BraveHeart the American Kestrel. (Laurel's picture featuring her releasing a Goshawk was taken by professional nature photographer, Phil Robertson.)
Treasurer
Bev Myers
Bev Myers has worked as a bookkeeper/accountant for over 41 years, owning her own practice for about 26 years. She has an extensive background working with non-profit organizations. Her specialty at Wildlife Rehabilitation and Release is raptors. Bev is the keeper and handler of Educational Ambassador Chester the Great Horned Owl.
Secretary
Lynn Archer
Lynn is a wildlife rehabilitator serving WRR on both the Small Mammal Team and the Raptor Team. Lynn was a police officer for 20 years in the Bay Area. Lynn has always been involved with animals. She had her own horse for 12 years, was a police K-9 handler for 6 six years, and worked part time for a Veterinary Hospital in Los Altos. For ten years Lynn was a member of a board of directors comprised of stake holders for a state-wide Off Road PALS program for at risk youth.
Lynn is a coach with the Motorcycle Safety Foundation and a CA State Parks Motorcycle Patrol member. Lynn and her husband Steve are small business owners operating two Laundromats in Grass Valley.
Director at Large
Donna Betz
Donna has been with WRR for seven years and is co-leader of the Raptor Team. Her background is in Medicine; she had an internist practice in Walnut Creek, CA. She served on the Board as Director at Large for two years and was Board President in 2010. She is on the WRR Education Committee and is a trained handler of many of WRR's Educational Ambassadors. Donna looks forward to using her previous board experience to address the needs of the organization.
Director at Large
Jim Crummett
Jim is a small mammal rehabber. In 2010 he successfully cared for ten raccoons and 25 squirrels. He believes that the primary task of the Board of Directors for WRR is to support the rehabbers so that the task of caring for the wildlife is made as efficient and as satisfying as possible.
Jim has been in the top-level management for several large corporations, and has had total responsibility for operations and administration. Jim looks forward to sharing his knowledge of the proper workings of a Board and how a Board is supposed to serve the organization.
Director at Large
Janet Goodban
Janet has been a wildlife rehabilitator since 2007 specializing in raptors. Janet's three years of volunteering at the Raptor Clinic has included weekly emergency on-call (rescue/transport/intake) work. Janet is the keeper and handler of WRR Educational Ambassador, Kajika the Western Screech Owl. In October 2009, she attended a 4-day intensive workshop at the University of Minnesota College of Veterinary Sciences Raptor Center, furthering her knowledge of raptors.
Janet is a long-time member of the National Audubon Society and enjoys writing stories about her bird experiences, many of which have been published in the local Audubon and Wildlife Rehabilitation and Release newsletters.
If you are interested in serving on the WRR board,
please email wrr_sectreas@cawildlife911.org