Allison Plean Arts and entertainment editor
Allison Plean covers arts and entertainment for the <em>Pilot & Today</em>. She has worked for the paper since March 2006. Allison has a bachelor of science in zoology and film from North Carolina State University. She has worked with animals including large cats, giraffes, wolves, primates and elephants at four different nonprofits and the Denver Zoo. She trained tigers for two years at the Carnivore Preservation Trust. Her work experience includes being a video conference producer, graphic designer and victim advocate. Allison has written for <em>The Local</em>, Powder magazine and Transworld Snowboarding magazine, and she was interviewed in Skiing magazine. She has also written for and acted in a local TV show, Cabaret and danced in the Steamboat Dance Theater. Allison is from Boca Raton, Fla., and enjoys dancing, writing screenplays, snowboarding, telemarking, sleeping in, making music videos, hanging out with her rhodesian ridgeback puppy Walter, making jewelry and traveling.
Recent stories
- Third time’s a charm?
- Swanson awaits another launch date for his first space mission
- April 6, 2007
- Steamboat Springs High School graduate Steve Swanson is patiently waiting for his first space mission aboard Space Shuttle Atlantis.
- Bucking bronze
- Taxidermist, sculptor finds another way to preserve wildlife
- December 19, 2006
- Don Beeler is an accomplished taxidermist for the Smithsonian who has created more than 70 bronze wildlife sculptures since 1995.
- Make a day of it
- August 22, 2006
- Family members of hunters can find their own adventures if they do not feel the call of the hunt.
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Question of the week
News this week showed snowpack in the Yampa River basin has reached 94 percent of median for the date. Do you think Moffat County is out of the woods as far as drought concerns?
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