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Kent, Washington, United States

Provide salmon habitat restoration expertise and develop habitat restoration plans.

Greater Seattle Area

Developed, managed and implemented projects including in-stream restoration design projects, riparian revegetation programs, and education and intern programs.Obtained 23 grants for more than 2.4 million dollars to fund salmon recovery projects in the Green-Duwamish and Cedar-Sammamish watersheds. Planned and implemented multiple riparian restoration projects in Auburn and Woodinville navigating permitting, partnerships, and COVID-19 while building volunteer events from 4 annually in 2018 to 50 planned events in 2022.Participated in a variety of salmon recovery groups, including WRIA 8 and WRIA 9 committees, Lake Sammamish Kokanee Work Group, and Green Duwamish Revegetation work group. Managed scoping process and early design of Lake City Floodplain Park in collaboration with Seattle Public Utilities and Seattle Parks and Recreation.Developed and led a successful green jobs summer program employing recent refugee youth with Partners in Employment and Port of Seattle.Managed Green River Coalition intern program at Green River College, training the next generation of land stewards Focused on restoration skills and landowner outreach.

Greater Seattle Area

• Lead, plan, and assist volunteer events, deliver and pick up tools for volunteer groups, and assist field crew on various restoration projects. • Perform administrative duties including data entry, inventories, writing reports and creating summaries.

Greater Seattle Area

• Restore urban forests through planting, watering, and manage invasive species with herbicide, manual removal, and brush cutting. • Safely install erosion control to protect steep slopes.

• Co-led high school crew working on a variety of water quality projects including open top culverts, rain gardens, infiltration steps, swales, and Class IV road and culvert repair.• Interacted with public and private clients following adaptive design plans to ensure quality outcomes.

New Hampshire

• Worked in small teams and independently to survey snowshoe hare pellet plots in Vermont and New Hampshire.

East Charleston, Vt

• Completed a variety of projects benefiting water quality including lake access trails, invasive plant control, tree plantings, and lake shore restoration projects.

East Charleston, Vt

• Co-led high school crew in hands-on conservation work based at the Nulhegan Division of the Silvio O. Conte National Fish and Wildlife Refuge.• Led work on projects ranging from trail maintenance, footbridge construction, invasive species removal, and assisted with Canada goose banding and snowshoe hare trapping.

Haleakala National Park

• Assisted with native plant nursery, including seed processing, propagation, and outplanting. • Performed manual and chemical control of invasive plant species (Cut Stump, Ez-Ject Lance, Frill, Backpack/Truck spraying) in a variety of front and back country settings. • Occasionally assisted Endangered Wildlife Management with rare bird surveys and predator traps.

Gifford Pinchot National Forest

• Monitored Demonstration of Ecosystem Management Options (DEMO) research plots, measuring overstory forest growth, diversity, and mortality.

Bellingham, Washington Area

• Coordinated the habitat restoration volunteer program engaging hundreds of volunteers each work party season throughout Whatcom County. • Recruited, trained, and managed stream restoration interns who led hands-on restoration work with volunteers and engaged the public.• Assisted volunteer and restoration data tracking, volunteer outreach, and grant development. • Provided presentations to students and community members on salmon and environmental issues. • Led experiential learning habitat restoration fieldtrips for elementary and middle school classes.

Okanagon Wenatchee National Forest

• Monitored fire effects monitoring plots measuring overstory and understory vegetation structure and diversity in the Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest. • Measured overstory data using hypsometers, prisms, mirror grids, and diameter tapes. • Recorded vegetation cover and diversity for shrubs, forbs, and graminoids, using dichotomous keys.

Seattle, Washington

• Assisted with plant care, plant propagation, plant processing, and data entry for endangered golden paintbrush recovery and dry forest restoration research.

Seattle, Washington

• Led forest restoration work parties of up to 60 volunteers in the West Duwamish Greenbelt. • Coordinated work site, taught plant identification, proper planting and invasive removal techniques. • Served as Nature Consortium restoration lead partnering with EarthCorps project manager to oversee Earth Day event restoration activities with over 300 volunteers and 26 crew leads.

Marblemount, Washington

• Monitored fire effects plots measuring overstory and understory vegetation structure and diversity.

Seattle, Wa