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he is blogging and posting on Facebook and Twitter about his pursuit of being victorious. Trevor is one of only two contestants vying for Expedition Granted. On the website, it said his objective is to “protect the national parks in Indonesia from poachers.” The winner will receive $10,000 toward his/her expedition of choice. Trevor, 25, will be making on-air appeals to solicit votes. Another site involved in the project is natgeotv.com/ expedition. Those who vote are automatically registered for a fourperson, 10-day adventure to the Galapagos Islands, courtesy of National Geographic Expeditions. The announcement of the winner is scheduled for Thursday, April 7, during Expedition Week. The runnerup will receive $2,500. If he is successful in the voting, Trevor said he will “embark
on an expedition to the island of Sumatra in Indonesia to investigate three parks – all UNESCO World Heritage Sites – to find ways to help them protect the environment and wildlife.” He said he will work with scientists to pinpoint conservation strategies that help save critically endangered animals like the orangutan and sun bear. He said he also will document the work of the park rangers who dedicate their lives to protecting the parks. As a boy, Trevor said he “spent my days exploring the wetlands and hanging out at Poor Farm Park and other wooded areas in [the] Mechanicsville/Hanover area.” He is the son of Ian and Mindy Frost. His father owns EEE Consulting, an environmental consulting firm in Mechanicsville. Trevor said he is an explorer, field biologist, photographer and conservationist. He has spent the last five years working with scientists
and conservation groups to save endangered wildlife and wild places. He said he has led eight international expeditions to four continents, in places like Congo, Patagonia and the Canadian wild. In that time, he also has helped produce two films and launch several photo exhibits that have toured around the world. Trevor said he is most proud of his work with the International League of Conservation Photographers and a number of Canadian conservation organizations that together helped secure a permanent ban on mining in the Flathead River Valley of British Columbia. He lives on the James River in Richmond, where he grew up exploring the rapids and islands of the James River Park System the very place that he said inspired him to want to help better protect other parks around the world. He said one of his heroes is Ralph White, a park ranger,
park manager, naturalist and educator who is largely responsible for the health and success of the James River Park System. Trevor’s educational background includes attending Pearson’s Corner Elementary School and Chickahominy Middle School. When he was in the eighth grade, he left CMS at the age of 14 to take classes at J. Sargeant Reynolds Community College for two semesters. In 2002, at the age of 16, he became an Environmental Sciences major at VCU. While there, he traveled to Guatemala, Peru and Ecuador. He graduated with honors from VCU at age 20 in 2006 with a major in Environmental Sciences. During the summer of 2006, Trevor worked with Professor Don Young as a research assistant, studying invasive species on Virginia’s Eastern Shore and Barrier Islands. The fall of 2006 found him traveling across Africa South Africa to Ethiopia.
The following spring, he went on a mountaineering expedition with his father to the tallest mountain in the Americas. That was followed by six months of travel in South America. Trevor worked with the Wildlife Conservation Society on research study of jaguars and reptiles/amphibians. He travelled throughout the Middle East Syria, Jordan and Lebanon – in the winter of 2008. In March 2008, he was awarded a National Geographic Young Explorers Grant to explore caves in the Congo Basin of Africa. During the summer of 2008, he launched and completed a two-month exploratory expedition to find, explore, map, study and photograph caves in the Gabon part of the Congo Basin. He said he discovered the longest cave in Gabon. VCU was a sponsor for that trip. Trevor became employed in January 2009 with the International League of Conservation Photographers, a
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miscellaneous fees, the department is requesting that a surety for property owned by homeowners associations be required. Improvement projects include the Hanover-Richmond Waterline Phase 6, Route 33 Water and Wastewater Service, Route 1 Waterline Extension, Doswell Wastewater
nonprofit in Washington, D.C. He served as director of Rapid Assessment Visual Expeditions at 23 years of age. He said the mandate of his position was to launch expeditions with world-renowned photographers to document critical conservation stories. He helped conceive, plan and fund expeditions, and oversaw six expeditions. “One, so far, we’ve had a terrific success,” Trevor said. “The expedition helped partners secure a legislated and permanent ban on mining in the Flathead River Valley of British Columbia.” Last October, he resigned from iLCP to pursue his own projects. Since then, he said, he has “been working side-by-side with author and National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence Wade Davis to produce a photo book with Bobby Kennedy Jr. and David Suzuki to brand the Sacred Headwaters, an extraordinary wilderness in Canada that is threatened by mining.”
Plant, Strawhorn Water System Rehabilitation, Middle Chickahominy River Sewage and Cedar Lane-Winns Church Road-Route 33. The Hanover County Board of Supervisors will meet at 6 p.m. today in the Administration Building at the Government Complex at Hanover Courthouse. A public hearing on the budget is scheduled for 7 p.m. March 30, with the adoption set for April 13.
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