This is a part-time position and my duties include working with agencies, conservation organizations, and other groups on crane management, conservation and research projects in the Pacific Flyway. My major project involved studying wintering ecology of sandhill cranes in California’s Central Valley.

Promote sandhill crane habitat conservation, environmental education and research.

I mostly work on bird conservation plans, but also work on wetland restoration and management issues. Some examples of my recent work: •Conducted an HEP analysis for a proposed Destination Resort in central Oregon in 2009.•Conducted an analysis of factors influencing nest success of sandhill cranes at Malheur NWR (Ivey and Dugger 2008).•Authored the Intermountain West Waterbird Conservation Plan for the Waterbirds for the Americas Initiative (Ivey and Herziger 2006). •Conducted a study of sandhill crane wintering ecology for TNC in 2002-2003 (Ivey and Herziger 2003).•Conducted a satellite telemetry study of sandhill cranes which stage in SW Washington, in 2001-2002 (Ivey et al. 2006).•Wrote wildlife management plan for a rice ranch in the Sacramento Valley of California which include provision of a sandhill crane roost site and foraging habitats in 2003 (Ivey and Snowden 2002).•Coordinated and conducted state-wide surveys of sandhill cranes breeding in Oregon and California in 1999 and 2000 (Ivey and Herziger 2000, 2001).•Co-authored a recovery plan for sandhill cranes in Washington in 2002 (Littlefield and Ivey 2002).•Co-authored a habitat assessment and management strategy for sandhill cranes for The Nature Conservancy’s Cosumnes River Preserve in California (Littlefield and Ivey 2000).•Served on recovery team and assisted California Dept. of Fish and Game with development of a draft recovery plan for sandhill cranes in California in 1998-2001.

Guide this non-profit organization.

I served as a National Wildlife Refuge biologist, including 15 years at Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in Oregon. My primary duty was to direct a very extensive biological program which included wildlife and vegetative surveys, and responsibility for supervision, development, implementation, coordination, evaluation, adherence to applicable policies, and planning. I wrote wildlife and habitat inventory, habitat management, and wetland management plans for the refuge to meet objectives for key species such as sandhill cranes and waterfowl. I conducted and coordinated off-refuge migratory bird surveys with the Oregon Department of Fish & Wildlife and other agency biologists for the Harney Basin and eastern Oregon. I also analyzed data and wrote publications.