Eagle Lake Field Station Offers Facilities for Field Courses and Research
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Feb. 4, 2004
CONTACT: Kathleen McPartland
530-898-4260
Jay Bogiatto, station manager
530-898-4490
Eagle Lake Field Station Offers Facilities for Field Courses and Research
The Eagle Lake Field Station (ELFS) is accepting reservations for late spring, summer and fall 2004. The station, an 11-building facility owned and managed by California State University, Chico and the CSU, Chico Research Foundation, is located 26 miles northwest of Susanville in Lassen County on the eastern shore of Eagle Lake.
ELFS is available to those wishing to conduct primarily academic activities, which are consistent with the isolation and natural setting of the station. Groups have used the station for field biology, ecology and archaeology courses, field research, workshops, seminars, professional meetings and academic retreats.
ELFS can comfortably accommodate about 35 people in cabins and dormitories. Most housing has wood heating, indoor plumbing, hot water and showers. Resident staff provides food service. Cabins are limited and their use is restricted to ELFS staff, group leaders, long-term researchers and faculty.
The field station was the vision of Professor Vesta Holt, who led her first Chico State College (as CSU, Chico was called then) biology field class to Eagle Lake in 1944. Twenty-three acres at the present site were purchased in the late 1950s at $2.50 an acre, and the site was expanded in 1970 to 63 acres. The first buildings were completed in 1964.
Jay Bogiatto, ELFS station manager, can be contacted at 530-898-4490 for information about reservations. His e-mail address is rbogiatto@csuchico.edu. For more information about the station, go to the ELFS Web site at http://www.csuchico.edu/biol/EagleLake/ eaglelake.html.
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