Local conservation nonprofit announces board of directors additions

Murray, Bolser join Friends of Inyo team

Friends of the Inyo, which works to protect and care for the land and water of the Eastern Sierra, and boasts offices in Bishop and Lone Pine in Inyo County, as well as a staff presence in Mono County, would like to announce two new additions to its board of directors:

• Nancee Murray, who has a lifetime of experience in environmental law, water rights and water quality; and

• Robin Bolser, who is the owner of the popular Great Basin Bakery and committed to environmental causes.

Murray is enjoying retirement after 28 years of service with the California Department of Fish and Wildlife’s Office of the General Counsel, where her career focused mostly on water rights and water quality. She has a business economics degree from UC Santa Barbara and a Juris doctor degree from UC Davis. She spent several years in private practice focusing on environmental law and was also an assistant attorney general for the Federated States of Micronesia in the early 1990s. She and her sons have spent many summers hiking, fishing and recreating in the Eastern Sierra region.

Bolser, who has lived in Florida, Illinois, Ohio and North Carolina, found a forever home in the Eastern Sierra. Educated as a philosopher and marine biologist, she moved to Santa Barbara in 1997 and discovered Mammoth Lakes in 1998. After visiting the area repeatedly to recreate, she decided to leave her career (and Santa Barbara) behind to start a family and a small business in Bishop: the Great Basin Bakery. Having lived here for over two decades and having married a “Bishopborn guy,” Bolser is committed to the wellbeing of communities and landscapes of the Eastern Sierra. She brings a passion for the outdoors, for environmental issues (particularly climate change) and a pragmatic approach to community partnerships that usually involves baked goods.