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Sacramento-Shasta Chapter of the Wildlife Society
Wildlife and Forest Management Summit Agenda
November 8th & 9th, 2018
The Best Western Hilltop Inn, Redding, CA
Day 1 – Thursday November 8th, 2018 (7:30am-7:30pm) 7:30-8:30 Registration 8:30-8:45 Welcome
8:45-9:30 Robin Fallscheer, California Dept. of Fish and Wildlife – Response of Rare Species
of Fawn Lilies to Even-aged Silviculture 9:30-10:15 Bobette Jones, US Forest Service – Aspen and Meadow Restoration Treatments
and Community Response
Break 10:15-10:30 10:30-11:15 Karen Pope, US Forest Service – Mountain amphibians and meadows 11:15-12:00 Mallory Bedwell, California Dept. of Water Resources – The state of environmental DNA: its uses,
ongoing research, and an example of its application in detecting aquatic amphibians Lunch 12:00-1:30 (on your own) 1:30-2:00 Stacy Stanish, CalFire – Bird Occupancy in a Post-Fire Setting 2:00-2:45 Ted Weller, US Forest Service – Habitat Needs of Forest-associated Bats in
Northern California Break 2:45-3:00 3:00-4:00 Kent Laudon, California Dept. of Fish and Wildlife – Who Let the Dogs Out (and
what are we going to do about it)? Wolves in California. 4:00-5:00 Break / CDFW Fish and Wildlife Working Group Meeting (agenda forthcoming) 5:00-7:30 Round Table Discussions / Happy Hour Poster Session / Carr Fire Raffle
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Day 2 – Friday November 9th, 2018 (7:30am-12:30pm) 7:30-8:00 Registration 8:00-8:15 Welcome 8:15-9:00 Ona Alminas, California Dept. of Fish and Wildlife – New CDFW Scientific
Collecting Permit Regulations and Online Application Portal 9:00-9:45 Joe Croteau, California Dept. of Fish and Wildlife – Landscape Scale Permitting
and Agreements Break 9:45-10:00 10:00-10:30 Jennifer Jones, US Fish and Wildlife Service – Update on California
Spotted Owl Status Evaluation 10:30-11:30 Bob Carey, US Fish and Wildlife Service – Northern Spotted Owl Recovery Plan,
Implementation in Northeastern California 11:30-12:30 Panel Discussion: Ona Alminas, Joe Croteau, Jennifer Jones, Bob Carey; Stacy
Stanish (CalFire), Bob Hawkins (CDFW)
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The Sac-Shasta Chapter of the Wildlife Society thanks the following sponsors for
helping make the Wildlife and Forest Management Summit possible:
Premier Canis lupus Sponsor ($1,000 level) - The Sac-Shasta Chapter of TWS expresses
gratitude for Collins Pine Company for helping to support this symposium:
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Platinum Strix occidentalis Sponsor ($500 level) - Thank you to VESTRA Resources, Inc.
Gold Rana spp. Sponsor ($250 level) - Thank you to Black Fox Timber Management Group
and Western Ecosystems Technology, Inc.
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Other Sponsors - Thank you to Hancock Forest Management ($200)
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Oral Presentation Abstracts
RESPONSE OF RARE SPECIES OF FAWN LILIES TO EVEN-AGED SILVICULTURE
Robin Fallscheer, Environmental Scientist, California Department of Fish and Wildlife, Timberland Conservation
Program, Redding, CA, [email protected]
There is little information about the ecology of most species of rare plants, and management of them on
commercial timberlands is hampered by this lack of knowledge. Forest management activities, including removal
of the forest canopy and application of herbicides, have the potential to directly impact these species or modify
their habitat. Monitoring of Erythronium citrinum var. roderickii (Scott Mountains fawn lily) in a proposed clearcut
unit in Trinity County was initiated in 2005. Numbers of E. citrinumvar. roderickii leaf blades in the clearcut have
declined relative to a control site; competition from native grass responding to increased light availability on the
forest floor is strongly implicated. Anecdotal observations suggest that tree and shrub canopy also provide
protection from herbivory, early-season severe weather events, and solar radiation in excess of ideal amounts at
some sites. Monitoring of E. klamathense (Klamath fawn lily) was initiated in a proposed clearcut unit in 2012 in
Siskiyou County. Short-term results suggest that E. klamathense may tolerate some forms of mechanical
disturbance and herbicide formulations used in the establishment of tree plantations when conducted during the
annual dormancy period. Although the numbers of E. klamathense plants in the clearcut have declined relative to
the non- clearcut site, the fruiting success per plant has increased. The increased fruiting success may be a
response to increased light availability or pollinator activity. These and other findings will be presented.
ASPEN AND MEADOW RESTORATION TREATMENTS AND COMMUNITY RESPONSE
Bobette Jones, Ecologist, USDA Forest Service, Lassen National Forest, Susanville, CA, [email protected]
Lack of disturbance in the west has facilitated conifer densification across the landscape contributing to declines in
health and distribution of meadow and aspen communities. Although these two communities comprise a small
percent of the landscape, they support a greater variety of plants, mammals, birds, and invertebrates and
contribute to landscape heterogeneity. Concerns about the decline and deterioration of aspen and meadow
communities have prompted restoration management to enhance biodiversity and increase landscape resiliency.
We examined the effects of meadow and aspen restoration projects that were implemented on the Lassen
National Forest. Treatments evaluated include conifer removal (mechanical and prescribed fire) and grazing
management. Results indicate conifer removal, fencing, and alternative grazing strategies can be successful
treatments to enhance meadow and aspen communities.
MOUNTAIN AMPHIBIANS AND MEADOWS
Karen Pope, Research Wildlife Biologist, USDA Forest Service, Pacific Southwest Research Station, Arcata, CA, [email protected]
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Amphibians have experienced precipitous declines over the past few decades, and montane amphibians are
increasingly at-risk. In the southern Cascades and Klamath ranges, the Cascades frog (Rana cascadae) is currently
under review for listing on California’s Endangered Species List. I will discuss the species’ ecology, population
genetics, threats, and will share plans for conserving and restoring populations in the Lassen region. In this region,
functioning wet meadows are important habitats for the Cascades frog and several other amphibian species.
However, intensive land uses have transformed many meadows from complex, biodiversity hotspots into simple,
incised channels that store less water and have reduced habitat quality. Meadow restoration has become an
increasingly important tool for recovering wet meadow habitats within degraded systems. The increasing pace and
scale of restoration and increasing importance of conserving amphibians provide an opportunity to both improve
restoration practices for native amphibians and to learn from them about important hydrologic characteristics that
structure and maintain meadows. I will relate species biology with meadow hydrology to define core meadow
characteristics that support the species and will demonstrate how to apply those characteristics to meadow
restoration design.
THE STATE OF ENVIRONMENTAL DNA: ITS USES, ONGOING RESEARCH, AND AN EXAMPLE OF ITS
APPLICATION IN DETECTING AQUATIC AMPHIBIANS
Mallory Bedwell, Environmental Scientist, California Department of Water Resources, Division of Environmental
Services, Aquatic Ecology Section, West Sacramento, CA, [email protected]
The capture and analysis of environmental DNA (eDNA) is a high-sensitivity approach for the detection of species
of interest and has been increasingly applied to many taxa in various environments. Environmental DNA (eDNA)
consists of genetic material shed into substrate, such as water, and its collection has been shown to have several
benefits, including the detection of rare species, contemporary detection, and increased sensitivity. While the field
continues to grow, several questions remain to help explain and utilize the capture of eDNA. Current research is
working to understand how eDNA persists in the environment and relating quantity of captured eDNA to species
counts or biomass. Environmental DNA still can enhance traditional surveys and an example of this technique is
the clarification of the distribution of the Sierra Nevada yellow-legged frog (Rana sierrae). One issue of
management concern for this species is that presence records are sometimes unclear and show R. sierrae
occurring below its documented elevational range, overlapping with the distribution of the foothill yellow-legged
frog (R. boylii). We developed a species-specific assay for each amphibian and analyzed buccal swabs and eDNA.
We did not detect either species at sites with unclear records using eDNA and analysis of buccal swabs indicated
most individuals were of R. boylii maternal lineage, with the lowest R. sierrae found at 1300m. Environmental DNA
is an extra tool for determining presence and absence and its continued study will help to reveal the potential data
that can be collected in a water sample.
USING AUTOMATED BIRD RECORDERS TO DETERMINE DIFFERENCES IN BIRD OCCUPANCY OF FOUR
SILVICULTURE TREATMENTS IN A POST-FIRE SETTING
Stacy Stanish, Senior Environmental Scientist - Forest Practice Biologist, CA Department of Forestry and Fire
Protection, Redding, CA, [email protected]
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Forest fires play an important ecological role for California’s wildlife. However, in recent years, high severity
wildfires have become uncharacteristically large, severe, and spatially contiguous. Forest managers utilize salvage
harvesting as a mechanism to recover the value of timber lost to these fires and to prepare the area for restocking
with conifer seedlings. Past studies have shown that there is an increase in cavity-nesting, insectivorous bird
species such as woodpeckers in post-fire landscapes. California Department of Fish and Wildlife has been operating
passive bird recorders as part of the Eco-Regional Biodiversity Monitoring project to determine occupancy and
diversity of bird species across large geographic landscapes in northern California for several years and, more
recently, broadly across the State. CAL FIRE’s study compliments that work by focusing on collecting baseline bird
occurrence and diversity for stands subject to different disturbance and/or management treatments following
wildfire, with the goal of determining if significant differences exist between treatments. This study utilizes four
replicates in four different silviculture stand types on Boggs Mountain Demonstration State Forest (BMDSF),
located in Lake County in the northern part of the California Coast Range.
HABITAT NEEDS OF FOREST-ASSOCIATED BATS IN NORTHERN CALIFORNIA
Ted Weller, Ecologist, USDA Forest Service, Pacific Southwest Research Station, Arcata, CA, [email protected]
More than any other habitat type, forests provide habitat for bats. However bats are sometimes overlooked in
wildlife assessments because they are concealed during the day and active mostly in the dark of night; hence
specialized surveys and equipment are needed to document their presence. The basic habitat needs of bats are
similar to other wildlife species in that they require roosts, foraging habitat, and open sources of clean water for
drinking. However the specifics of their requirements vary among species. Northern California is home to 16
species of bats of which 13 are associated with forests. I provide information on the specifics of forest habitat
needs for each of the forest-associated bat species. I also provide information on how the effects of forest
management practices may vary among species. The needs of bats also vary seasonally, although much less is
known about their needs outside the summer pup-rearing season. I discuss what is known and remains to be
known about the seasonal habitat requirements of bats. Finally, I offer some low effort suggestions for how forest
managers can help fill information gaps for California bats.
WHO LET THE DOGS OUT (AND WHAT ARE WE GOING TO DO ABOUT IT)? WOLVES IN CALIFORNIA
Kent Laudon, Wolf Specialist, California Department of Fish and Wildlife, Redding, CA, [email protected]
California is the most recent U.S. state to be recolonized by gray wolves. Since the male wolf OR-7 dispersed from
northeastern Oregon and entered California 7 years ago, at least 10 additional wolves have entered California from
other states. During this short time frame two pairs have successfully reproduced in California. One of those packs
– dubbed the Lassen Pack - persists and had its second litter in 2018. Monitoring and management is challenging
because wolves travel widely and use large, often remote areas. In working landscapes, wolf conservation and
management is further complicated by the presence of livestock and land ownership and management patterns. In
California this is magnified because most citizens lack of experience living with wolves, and the lack of some tools
to mitigate wolf- caused livestock damage. As CDFW works to conserve wolves and minimize impacts to livestock
producers, we strive to collaborate closely with communities within wolf range and to develop good two-way
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communication, information dissemination, and relationships. CDFW’s wolf monitoring and management is
adaptive and multifaceted and involves working closely with both wolves and people.
NEW CDFW SCIENTIFIC COLLECTING PERMIT REGULATIONS AND ONLINE APPLICATION PORTAL
Ona Alminas, Leslie Alber, Esther Burkett, Justin Garcia, James May, Brian Owens, Craig Schjoneman, Kristin
Wenzel, and Robert Win; Sr. Env. Scientist, California Department of Fish and Wildlife,
Scientific Collecting Permits (SCPs) are the permitting mechanism issued by the California Department of Fish and
Wildlife (CDFW) for take of wildlife species that are not listed as Candidate, Threatened, or Endangered under the
California Endangered Species Act (CESA), and that are not Fully Protected. SCPs enable the public to engage in,
and report back on, scientific research, education and propagation activities, where research and data collection
help benefit and conserve the State’s wildlife resources. In 2017, CDFW underwent a regulations update that
revised Sections 650 and 703, Title 14, California Code of Regulations (CCR). The regulations update was necessary
to modernize SCP processes consistent with statutory changes, and revise the permit structure to implement in an
online application format, with new forms and fee schedule, with the overall goal of improving program
administration and operation. The new regulations and the online Scientific Collecting Permit Portal (SCPP)
became effective on October 1, 2018. This presentation will outline the regulatory and procedural changes that
prospective applicants should be aware of, what happens to existing permit holders and theirs SCPs issued under
the hard copy process, and initial steps for how to use the SCPP. CDFW hopes that these regulatory and
administrative improvements will continue to support stakeholders and encourage research, conservation and
education, while protecting California’s wildlife.
LANDSCAPE SCALE PERMITTING AND AGREEMENTS
Joe Croteau, Timberland Conservation Program Manager, California Department of Fish and Wildlife, Northern
Region, Yreka, CA, [email protected]
We are in an era for California when project proponents, researchers, conservation groups, academia, and
politicians are challenged to balance core and often-conflicted economic and environmental values. Climate
change, wildfire, drought, economics, and urban infrastructure have led to the reduction in distribution and range
of many fish and wildlife resources. There are many examples of natural resource agencies not delivering on their
obligations to represent public interests. There are also many examples of the entities described above
collaborating on solutions resulting in viable conservation efforts. California is a leader in developing regulatory
actions to protect fish, wildlife, and plants. The Department of Fish and Wildlife recently developed the Landscape
Conservation Planning Program to connected fragmented corridors, provide mitigation options, and seek
restoration funding. In this presentation, I will provide a general overview of some of our challenges, and a few
landscape-scale permitting options for listed species worth considering. I hope the presentation will inspire a
follow up discussion on site-specific scenarios we can explore together.
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UPDATE ON CALIFORNIA SPOTTED OWL STATUS EVALUATION
Jennifer Jones, Wildlife Biologist/Connecting People With Nature and Schoolyard Habitat Coordinator, U.S. Fish
and Wildlife Service, Yreka, CA, [email protected]
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Service) is currently developing a Species Status Assessment (SSA) for the
California spotted owl. The SSA process is an analytical approach developed by the Service to deliver a
foundational science report for informing all Endangered Species Act decisions. The SSA process has three
successive stages: 1) document the life history and ecological relationships of the species in question to provide
the foundation for the
assessment, 2) describe and hypothesize causes for the current condition of the species, and 3) forecast the
species’ future condition. The future condition refers to the ability of a species to sustain populations in the wild
under plausible future scenarios. The scenarios help explore the species’ response to future environmental
stressors and to assess the potential for conservation to intervene to improve its status. The SSA process
incorporates modeling and scenario planning for prediction of a possible future status for the species and applies
the conservation biology principles of representation, resiliency, and redundancy to evaluate the current and
future condition. The SSA results in a scientific report distinct from policy application, which contributes to
streamlined, transparent, and consistent decision-making and allows for greater technical participation by experts
outside of the Service, including state natural resource agencies. The SSA builds upon the past threat-focused
assessment by including systematic and explicit analyses of a species’ future response to stressors and
conservation, and as a result, it provides an improved scientific analysis for ESA decisions.
NORTHERN SPOTTED OWL RECOVERY PLAN, IMPLEMENTATION IN NORTHEASTERN CALIFORNIA
Bob Carey, Branch Chief, Habitat Conservation and Planning, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Yreka, CA
The Revised Recovery Plan for the Northern Spotted Owl (NSO) was signed on June 28, 2011 and includes 33
Recovery Actions. Several of these Recovery Actions are specifically applicable to dry, interior forests in northern
California. Recovery Actions 10, 11, and 32 describe forest management to restore or maintain NSO habitat.
Recovery Action 12 is aimed at understanding NSO habitat relationships in post-fire landscapes and limiting
adverse effects of post-fire forest management. Several Recovery Actions emphasize developing collaborative
partnerships to promote conservation and recovery of NSO. This presentation will discuss and describe successes
as well as opportunities for improvement in implementing the NSO Revised Recovery Plan.
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Chapter Announcements
Help Kids by Sharing Your Wild Stories
The Sac-Shasta Chapter of TWS is partnering with Sacramento Splash, a 501(c)(3) nature and science education organization, to produce Wild Stories. These nature-focused vignettes are a way for scientists and nature-lovers to share with children the wonders of the natural world and their experience of being where the wild things are.
Kids in urban areas are indoors most of the time and know not what lies beyond the pavement. If we are to prepare the next generation to care for the earth, we must give young people a reason to care about it. Among them are children who are profoundly impacted by their Splash experience; it changes their sense of the themselves, the world and their connection to it. Splash already reaches over 100 classes of 4th and 5th graders through its hands-on Investigating Vernal Pools program, a classroom curriculum and field trip to Mather Field near Sacramento, CA.
From now through December 2018, Sacramento Splash and the Sac-Shasta Chapter of TWS are collecting your Wild Stories to help connect kids with the plants, animals, and scientific wonder that surrounds us. Your story can be about something microscopic or global, an organism, a phenomenon, or just evidence of physics, chemistry, biology, ecology, hydrology, or geology at work around us. Write your story in the first-person using simple words, prose, or verse. Think engaging Facebook post. Editors will review the content, and you will have approval over the final version of your story before publication. Send your contributions (or questions) to Sacramento Splash by email to [email protected] and cc [email protected]. Your story can be published anonymously if you wish.
Field and Science (evening seminar social) Presenter Dr. Jamie Kneitel, CSU Sacramento
Wildlife and Wetlands of the Middle East and North Africa Thurs, Nov. 15, 2018, Time: 5:30pm to 7:30pm
Blue Prynt, 815 11th Street, Sacramento, CA
Chapter Elections to run in December 2019
We are recruiting for a couple open positions for the 2019 Executive Board! We are looking for Vice President candidates who want to be involved with Chapter leadership for the next three years (Vice President, to President, to Past President roles). We are hopeful to have a tech-motivated person to help maintain our new website, eager
to engage in social media, and assist with our Mailchimp digests – and/ or serve as our Technology Chair. We seek a Newsletter Editor to help format 3 newsletters a year for membership, and a Student Outreach Liaison to assist with integrating students into the Wildlife Society as professional members, and organizing student wildlife
resources or events. Many more options available – planning your next trainings or workshops with the Professional Development Committee, Conservation Affairs Committee engagement in our current political
climate – you make your chapter what you want! Please contact us at [email protected] and help us do more to serve you!
Elections Recruitment Mixer Fri, Nov. 16, 2018, Time: 5:30pm to 7:30pm
Kupro’s Craft House, 1217 21st St, Sacramento, CA 95816
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Speaker Biographies
Robin Fallscheer Robin Fallscheer earned her undergraduate and MS degrees in Biological Sciences at CSU, Chico. Her thesis on
yellow jacket sting morphology was selected as the Most Outstanding Master’s Thesis for CSU, Chico. Her early
work in biology included encephalitis virus surveillance, bubonic plague surveillance, and research on zooplankton.
She works in Redding at California Department of Fish and Wildlife as a botanist in the Timberland Conservation
Program.
Bobette Jones Dr. Bobette Jones is a practicing restoration ecologist specializing in landscape
resilience, forest health, meadow and riparian restoration. She is considered an
expert on aspen restoration in California, and her research has been published and
recognized in both academic journals and popular presses. Trained as a field
ecologist with the U.S. Forest Service, she spent 15 years developing a forest-level
ecology program, integrating scientific research into project planning,
implementation, and monitoring. She has successfully completed over 20 large-scale
planning projects focused on landscape resilience, watershed restoration, and
rangeland management. She holds a Ph.D. in integrative ecology from University of
California, Davis, and a B.S. and M.S. in biology from Ball State University.
Karen Pope Karen Pope is a Research Aquatic Ecologist with the US Forest Service, Pacific
Southwest Research Station. She focuses on the ecology and conservation of montane
amphibians and on developing meadow restoration practices that improve habitat
heterogeneity and resiliency. She holds a Ph.D. in ecology from UC Davis, and a M.S. in
Biology from Cal Poly San Luis Obispo.
Mallory Bedwell Mallory Bedwell received her B.A. in integrative biology from UC Berkeley where she first
started doing genetics work while studying Ensatina salamanders. She recently completed her
master’s degree under Caren Goldberg at Washington State University. For her thesis, she
developed an environmental DNA (eDNA) sampling protocol for Sierra Nevada and foothill
yellow-legged frogs in lotic systems and used it to clarify distributional records for the Sierra
Nevada yellow-legged frogs on Plumas National Forest. She currently works as an
environmental scientist at the California Department of Water Resources where she plans on
applying eDNA surveys in the Yolo Bypass.
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Stacy Stanish Stacy Stanish is a Senior Environmental Scientist/Forest Practice Biologist with CAL
FIRE’s Watershed Protection Program. Ms. Stanish has a Bachelor’s degree in
Fisheries Biology from Humboldt State University. Ms. Stanish’s more than 20-year
professional career has focused on working with fish and wildlife for Pacific Lumber
Company, Central Valley Regional Water Board, Department of Fish and
Game/Wildlife and now CAL FIRE in the technical and regulatory realm. Ms. Stanish
specializes in freshwater and terrestrial ecology. Current projects include: northern
spotted owl review, a post-fire bird occupancy study, and monitoring aquatic and
terrestrial wildlife on CAL FIRE’s various State Forests. Ms. Stanish is also a
Registered Professional Forester.
Ted Weller Theodore (Ted) Weller is an Ecologist with USDA Forest Service’s Pacific Southwest
Research Station, stationed in Arcata, California. Ted has been working with bats in
forests of northern California since 1996. He has studied habitat associations of
bats throughout the Pacific Northwest. A primary focus of his work has been the
design and implementation of programs to monitor population status of bats over
large spatial extents. Toward that end he is a co-developer of the Bat Acoustic
Monitoring Portal which promotes collaborative sharing of echolocation
monitoring data to understand the seasonal distributions of multiple bat species.
He also helps to coordinate efforts to implement the North American Bat
Monitoring Program in California and for the Forest Service nationwide. His most
recent work focuses applies the latest micro-technologies to help understand the
migratory and winter ecology of bats in western North America.
Kent Laudon Kent graduated from UW-Stevens Point and embarked on a windy professional trail
from OR to MT to ID back to MT to AZ/NM, and currently CA. On that trail he has
worked for USFS, Oregon Fish and Wildlife, Nez Perce Tribe, University of Idaho,
Idaho Fish and Game, Montana Fish Wildlife and Parks, USFWS, California Fish and
Wildlife, working with a variety of species and habitat (black bears, cougar, mule
deer, elk, mountain goats, bighorn sheep). Kent has worked with wolves for the past
21 years.
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Ona Alminas Ona is a Senior Environmental Scientist with CDFW. She has over 11 years of
experience as a field, research and consulting biologist, with emphasis in terrestrial
vertebrate ecology and population genetics (including mule deer phylogeography in
the desert southwest). She is a regulations analyst for CDFW and the Fish and Game
Commission to promulgate a variety of regulations for recreational and commercial
inland and marine fisheries, and California Endangered Species Act listings, and
coordinated the Scientific Collecting Permit regulation update. Previously in
environmental consulting, she conducting sensitive species surveys, prepared
biological reports and habitat management plans, and environmental documents. She
has also participated in natural history collection and curation efforts at UC Davis, and
oversaw numerous avian, mammalian and herpetofaunal inventory and research
projects in California and Washington state. She earned a M.S. in Biological Sciences from University of Wisconsin
-Milwaukee, and a B.S. from U.C. Davis in Wildlife, Fish, and Conservation Biology.
Joe Croteau Joe Croteau is the Timberland Conservation Program Manager for the California
Department of Fish and Wildlife’s (CDFW) Northern Region. He grew up in the
Anderson Valley of Mendocino County. He has a B.S. in Wildlife Management from
Humboldt State University, with additional coursework in fisheries, botany, and
herpetology. He worked as a Scientific Aid in the Aquatic Toxicology Laboratory
evaluating the effects of the 1991 Cantara Spill, at the Butte Valley Wildlife Area
supporting wetlands and waterfowl management, and in the Bay Delta evaluating
potential impacts from proposed reservoir development. He was then employed as
a Fisheries Biologist with the USFWS monitoring salmonid, cyprinid, osmerid, and
centrarchid populations in the San Joaquin/Sacramento Delta. Since 2001 he has been employed as an
Environmental Scientist and Program Manager within the Timberland and Aquatic Conservation Programs at
CDFW.
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Jennifer Jones Jennifer Jones is a Wildlife Biologist with the Yreka FWO since 2005. Currently, she is
working with a private landowner on a Safe Harbor Agreement for the northern
spotted owl (NSO) and gray wolf. She participates in a NSO interagency working group
and provide technical assistance to CAL FIRE on timber harvest plans to avoid
incidental take of NSO when needed. She is the lead for responding to a petition to list
the Siskiyou Mountains salamander (SMS) under the ESA, is working with the Klamath
National Forest to develop a Conservation Strategy for the SMS and Scott Bar
salamander, and is wrapping up a habitat modeling field study on these species. She is
also the coordinator for the Yreka FWO Connecting People with Nature program,
which includes outreach and education about wildlife and conservation, and creating schoolyard habitats and
monarch waystations. Jennifer has an M.S. Natural resources with an wildlife emphasis from Humboldt State
University and a B.A. in Biology and in Environmental Studies from the University of California, Santa Cruz.
Bob Carey Bob has been involved in forest management and wildlife related issues in
northeastern California for over 25 years. Bob has experience working as a private land
manager (Wildlife Biologist for W.M. Beaty & Associates, Inc.), a consultant (VESTRA)
and as a federal endangered species biologist. Much of Bob’s work has focused on
northern spotted owls. Current duties include developing conservation agreements
with willing stakeholders in accordance with the requirements of Section 10 of the
Endangered Species Act (ESA). Types of conservation agreements include Habitat
Conservation Plans (HCPs), Candidate Conservation Agreements with Assurances
(CCAAs), and Safe Harbor Agreements (SHAs).Bob has an M.S. in Wildlife Science from
Oregon State University and his B.S. in Wildlife Management from The Ohio State University.
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