Patrick Nurre

Patrick Nurre has been an enthusiastic rockhound since grade school.  He grew up in the beautiful state of Montana where he spent many of his Saturdays rockhounding near the Big Horn River.  His field experience has included extensive digging in the states of Washington, Idaho, Montana, South Dakota, Utah, Oregon, Wyoming, Kansas and Indiana.  He has a special interest in volcanoes. In the 1970s Patrick and his wife Vicki were involved in helping to promote and organize the creation-evolution debates featuring the late Dr. Henry Morris and Dr. Duane Gish.  Patrick and Vicki home schooled their three children, now all grown.  Patrick and Vicki now reside in Bothell, Washington.  They are grandparents and remain good friends of the homeschool movement.  In 2005 Patrick started Northwest Treasures, a business devoted to producing a wide variety of fine geology specimen kits and high quality polished thunder eggs to promote rockhounding.  Patrick’s geology specimen kits and polished thunder eggs have been featured in the new Creation Museum gift shop in Petersburg, Kentucky.   In addition to his hobby of rockhounding, Patrick pastors a church in the Edmonds, Washington area. Please visit him at www.northwestrockandfossil.com