I transferred from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in Corpus Christi, Texas to the U.S. Forest Service in Manchester, Vermont. I am a District Wildlife Biologist and specialize in avian ecology. I review NEPA projects and conduct wildlife research and monitoring on our timber harvests. We have several federally listed species on the Forest, including the Indiana Bat and the Northern Long-eared Bat. We also have a list of "sensitive species" which are typically the focus of our research and monitoring projects.
I am originally from New England and after graduating from the University of Vermont, I started my career as an intern, helping to raise endangered Whooping Cranes at the Patuxent Wildlife Research Center in Laurel, Maryland. Since then, I have worked in ten additional states, on a variety of avian research projects and in husbandry settings. In additional to birds, I am also fascinated by bats and I have had some opportunities to work with them, as well as other wild mammals, amphibians, and herps. I have also worked with endangered cats and ungulates in a captive breeding facility in New Orleans, which is attempting to save endangered species around the world. I feel blessed to do something I love and to be able to work towards saving wildlife and conserving our land.
I believe in managing at the landscape or ecosystem level whenever possible. Humans have fragmented the land so drastically that it is important to focus on reconnecting suitable habitat for plants and wildlife. We need to create corridors or stepping stones to link these areas and allow genetic flow and population expansion. We have the spatial technology available to us to create landscape-level management plans and conservation units.
I am originally from New England and after graduating from the University of Vermont, I started my career as an intern, helping to raise endangered Whooping Cranes at the Patuxent Wildlife Research Center in Laurel, Maryland. Since then, I have worked in ten additional states, on a variety of avian research projects and in husbandry settings. In additional to birds, I am also fascinated by bats and I have had some opportunities to work with them, as well as other wild mammals, amphibians, and herps. I have also worked with endangered cats and ungulates in a captive breeding facility in New Orleans, which is attempting to save endangered species around the world. I feel blessed to do something I love and to be able to work towards saving wildlife and conserving our land.
I believe in managing at the landscape or ecosystem level whenever possible. Humans have fragmented the land so drastically that it is important to focus on reconnecting suitable habitat for plants and wildlife. We need to create corridors or stepping stones to link these areas and allow genetic flow and population expansion. We have the spatial technology available to us to create landscape-level management plans and conservation units.