Mountain Arts Network & Gallery
David Ficke
David Ficke
Raised in Glendora, CA by parents who were avid campers, Dave, his sister and mom and dad would take off on weekends, hiking,boating, and skiing throughout the lakes, deserts, and mountains of Southern California. As a young man, he discovered Yosemite National Park in the heart of the Sierra Nevada, and it quickly became the home of his heart, the place to which he always returned for inspiration and renewal.
Dave’s thirty years as an environmental educator and life-long wildlife enthusiast has nurtured a love of nature and its beauty, which he has captured in his photographs. Long an advocate of conservation and stewardship of our natural environment, he has passionately taught those principals as a high school science teacher in Upland, California.
As an educator, Dave has been taking high school students to Yosemite every year for twenty-five years with the Yosemite Institute program.This nationally recognized, award-winning outdoor education program reinforces the standards of field biology and natural history he teaches in his classroom.
