Wildlife and Plant Surveys

2004 to present
Lead Researcher on two large-scale California Tiger Salamander drift fence surveys at proposed development sites in northern Santa Barbara County. Subcontracted to VJS Consultants, Santa Barbara, CA.

2005
Specialist for habitat assessment and subsequent protocol level surveys for California Spotted Owls on Angeles and San Bernardino National Forests for Southern California Edison’s Chilao Circuit Rebuild and Job Circuit Rebuild/Bailey Peak Tower Construction respectively.  Subcontracted to BioResource Consultants, Ojai, CA

2006
Peregrine Falcon nest monitoring during construction project on Vincent-Thomas Bridge, 2006. Subcontracted to Condor Environmental, Santa Barbara, CA.

2003 and 2004
Lead Researcher on San Bernardino National Forest’s California Spotted Owl Monitoring Project. Presence/absence and reproductive status surveys as part of a USFS fuels management planning process.  Subcontracted to W.S. LaHaye.

2003
Desert Tortoise monitoring on a natural gas pipeline project through the Mojave Desert. With Garcia and Associates, San Anselmo, CA.

Focused surveys for federal and state listed plant and animal species as well as general wildlife surveys in Kern, Santa Barbara, and Ventura Counties including: Blunt-nosed Leopard Lizard, Desert Tortoise, San Joaquin Kit Fox, Burrowing Owl, Eriastrium hooveri, Eremulche kernensis, and Caulanthus californicus.

Arroyo las Posas Stream/Channel Alteration; Ventura County Flood Control Department; evaluated habitat quality and conducted general wildlife and focused herptile surveys (Red-legged Frog) and wrote Wildlife Resources section of EIR. In 1992, subcontracted to Rachel Tierney Consulting Services, Santa Barbara, CA.

Vista del Mar School; Chevron Oil Company; conducted focused surveys for California red-legged frog and southwestern pond turtle, wrote contingency relocation plan for pond turtle, conducted Gaviota tarplant counts, monitored construction of water well. Subcontracted to Dames and Moore, Goleta, CA.