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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.

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