Steven Cochrane Email & Phone Number

Oakland, California, United States

Full service residential garden care (aesthetic pruning, garden design and installation (especially CA natives and Mediterranean plants, plant sourcing/installation, fertilizing, disease diagnoses and treatment. Small tree pruning including fruit trees. Drip irrigation/Landscape lighting repair and installation. 25+ years gardening experience; FCI Fine Gardening started October, 2019 with me solo, now staff of 5 gardeners. Apprenticed 2 years at Four Dimensions Landscape Company, Oakland http://www.fourdimensionslandscape.com/As a field botanist, I strive to see in the wild, all of the 60+ species of native plants in my home garden.https://www.bringingbackthenatives.net/2006gardens/Cochrane.html

Pt. Richmond, Ca

Wildlife biologist and botanist for special status species surveys, field tech. for CA tiger salamander trapping and seining, breeding bird surveys, water quality monitoring, habitat restoration and environmental compliance.

San Francisco Bay Area, Sierra Nevada, California

Gardener, Watershed Stewardship Manager/Volunteer Coordinator, Naturalist, Interpretive Guide, Nonprofit Consultant.

Oakland, California, United States

My on the ground training began apprenticing with the outstanding gardening staff, landscape architects, construction installation crew and office staff at Four Dimensions Landscape Company. I was promoted to crew leader; supervising two maintenance gardeners per day and driving a gardening van to 2-5 gardens per day; providing garden, lawn, tree, pond/fountain, and irrigation services. I was promoted to head the garden maintenance division as supervisor. I hired and trained staff, met with new clients to develop garden care plans, trouble shoot existing client garden problems, ordered and maintained equipment, and parts; ordered and oversaw plant installations. My experience at Four Dimensions built on my formal botanical/horticultural education and experience,

San Francisco Bay Area

Fundraise and manage $25,000. - $450,000. in received grants. Conduct small scale habitat restorations, community involvement, volunteer water quality monitoring, and a youth employment programhttp://www.sfestuary.org/.

Oakland, Ca

Creek protection policy development, creek mapping, creek delineations, watershed group liaison, NPDES inspector, volunteer and community project host.

Hayward, Ca

Interpretive center director. Hire and train staff, produce interpretive and education programs about SF bay and wetland ecology. Develop and implement a volunteer program, implement habitat restoration projects, conduct wetland monitoring/reporting serve on Technical Advisory Committee for Hayward Area Shoreline Planning Agency.

Olympic National Park, Wa; Pt. Reyes National Seashore, Ca

ONP: 1980-81; Pt. Reyes National Seashore: 1986-87Conduct natural history interpretive walks, talks, and slideshows. Staff ranger station; informal visitor contact on trail patrol.

Yosemite And Marin Headlands

Instructor in Yosemite. Director of Education, Headlands. Instrumental in working to establish Olympic National Park campus.

Trinity Alps Wilderness, Ca

Post-Graduate Education, Habitat Restoration

Activities and Societies: THE NATURE CONSERVANCY: Volunteer (10 years) CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES: Instructor (5 years 2 classes/year).

Bachelor'S Degree, Field Biology, Natural History, Ecology

Master'S Degree, Non-Profit Administration / Organizational Management