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--New York Times

Mark A. York

10799 Sherman Grove Ave #39

Sunland, CA 91040

mark_y48@msn.com

Telephone: 818-352-5433

Cell 818-447-9366

Experience:

Staff Writer—The Livingston Enterprise, Livingston, MT-06-30-08 to present. Environment, government; investigative/enterprise; general assignment; features.

Reporter-Idaho Falls Post-Register, Idaho Falls, ID-Burgers For Bikes story 8-27-05

Staff Writer—Fall 2004 Cal State University Northridge Daily Sundial: Education, election propositions; environment investigative; general assignment.

Editor: Environment II web-log—2002-05 http://www.markyork.blogspot.com

Draft National Historic Landmark Nomination for Reuben Colburn House, Pittston, Maine 2002: Copy on file at the Maine Historic Preservation Commission, Augusta, ME.

Vector Control Technician-Greater Los Angeles County Vector Control District, Sylmar, CA 2006

Biological Technician-Fisheries Jarbidge District BLM Twin Falls, ID 2005

Fishery Biologist—2001 U.S. Forest Service-1990-94

Screen Actor—1996 -2000 TV and Film SAG

Biological Technician—GS -4/5 U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service-1989

Biological Aid—State fish and Game Agencies-1985-89

Education:

California State University—Northridge-2000-04 BA: Journalism; collateral field in Environmental Biology and Ecology, Dec. 2004

Glendale College- 2000

LA Mission College- 2003-2006 Law Certificate IP Dean’s List 2005

Santa Barbara City College- 2003-4

Feather River College-1985-86 U. of Maine-1971-72

Journalism Training: Reporting News- B; Intro to Mass Com-B; Reporting Government Agencies-A; Article Writing-C+; Graphics (QuarkXPress)-B+; International News Media-A; Law of Public Communication-A; Investigative Reporting-A; Editing-C+; Newspaper practicum-C+; Tutorial—Politics and the Press-A.

Author of Against a Strong Current, the story of the environmental wars of the mid-‘80s and ‘90s. Dec. 2000. Alaska Tales, April 2001. Patriot on the Kennebec: Major Reuben Colburn, Benedict Arnold and the March to Quebec 1775 available on request.

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