Lee Davis Email & Phone Number

Reno, Nv

I serve as the Western Rangelands Public Lands Policy Specialist for the Sagebrush Sea Program, housed within the Western and Canada Division of The Nature Conservancy.

Reno, Nv

Provide oversight and management of the Habitat Division Special Reserve Accounts Program including the Habitat Conservation Fee, Heritage Tags, Game Stamps, and Conservation Bonds (Q1, AB84). Additionally, provide expertise in terrestrial ecology for habitat conservation, restoration, and management. Expertise in ecological monitoring including Assessment, Inventory and Monitoring; Interpreting Indicators of Rangeland Health; the Nevada Rangeland Monitoring Handbook; Proper Functioning Condition for lentic and lotic systems; utlization and residual measure methods; Rapid Assessment of Post-Fire Ecosystems in the Great Basin; and utilization of Ecological Site Descriptions, State and Transition Models, and Resistance and Resilience concepts for managing ecosystem responses to acute and chronic disturbance.

Reno, Nv

I managed the operations of a dedicated team of professionals focused on the restoration of arid lands and water resources related to the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation's Walker Basin Restoration Program.

Managed field monitoring and project coordination for the SageSTEP East network. SageSTEP is a collaborative ecosystem restoration and management project spanning multiple ecoregions across six Western States. My principal duties included vegetation and environmental data collection at multiple field sites in UT, NV, and ID. I was also responsible for data management, data analysis and manuscript preparation, project-wide GIS oversight, budgeting, negotiating Challenge Cost-Shares and MOUs with Federal partners, as well as hiring and training seasonal staff.sagestep.org

Botanical crew leader on a contract for the US Forest Service, primarily in the Bridger-Teton National Forest.• Inventory of Forest Service lands (Non-forest inventory focused on sage-grassland habitats)• Crew leader; planning and record keeping for vegetation inventory, responsible for final data products• Data collection and entry; data quality review for crew members• Native plant identification, community classification• Utilization of GPS, ArcGIS layer collection and manipulation; backcountry travel planning

Conducted data analysis and manuscript preparation for alpine phenology and climate change studies.• Rare plant monitoring; community mapping, monitoring and classification• Statistical analysis (primarily in R) and database management• Growing degree model development for critical alpine species of the Northeast• Phenology monitoring in alpine communities• Public programming (natural history and science education) 3-5 times weekly at backcountry lodging facilities

Inventoried restoration sites for the Elko BLM District Emergency Stabilization and Rehabilitation program. • Post burn restoration vegetation monitoring; identification of the native and non-native flora of the northern Great Basin region• Project contract liaison, expense reporting and project management• Project closeout analysis and report production to evaluate the effectiveness of post-burn restoration treatments• Data collection and management in remote locations

• Designed and taught Ecological Monitoring and Biodiversity Assessment, a short course on biomonitoring and statistics for undergraduates, Cranberry Lake Biological Station• Teaching assistant for General Biology laboratory, General Ecology laboratory (2 semesters), and Plant Ecology (advanced undergraduate/graduate) laboratory

Mps, Conservation Ecology

Bachelor Of Science (Bs), Horticultural Science