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Skip Augur is Publicity Committee Chairman of the Altacal Audubon Society and Webmaster of the Society's web site.
Jon Aull received his master's degree studying parks and natural resources in the recreation department at Chico State. He is the environmental education coordinator
for the Chico Creek Nature Center, where he develops and implements nature programs for school children and families.
Jay Bogiatto is Station Manager at CSU, Chico's Eagle Lake Field Station, Director of the Biology Department's Vertebrate Museum and teaches ornithology,
waterfowl biology and zoology at CSU, Chico.
Steve Brightwell is Assistant Manager at the California Department of Fish and Game Feather River Fish Hatchery.
Ellen Clark has been an interpreter with California State Parks for twenty-one years. She is an avid kayaker and birder.
Randy Cousineau is a resource manager who spent many years with the National Park Service, USFWS, and USFS. He is currently an instructor at Butte College, where he teaches
geography, GIS, and GPS and serves on the Sustainability Steering Committee. He also works as a GIS analyst for the Tehama County Resource Conservation District and is developing courses
for a GIS certificate program. Randy likes being outside and thinks geocaching is great outdoor family fun!
Denise Dachner has been the Outdoor Recreation Planner for the Sacramento NWR Complex for over 19 years. She oversees the hunting, fishing, wildlife viewing, photography, environmental
education, and interpretation programs for Sacramento, Delevan, Colusa, Sutter and Sacramento River NWRs.
Sharon Dale has been an animal trainer and educator for more than 18 years. She was integral in the Bald eagle reintroduction program in Tennessee. Sharon is now the Animal Programs Manager at Turtle Bay.
Tim Davis has served as a State Park Ranger at several parks throughout California for over thirty years. His current work location is the Bidwell –
Sacramento River State Park just outside of Chico.
Tyler Dawleyof Big Bluff Ranch grew up on the family ranch where it was understood that the health of the landscape directly affects the health of humans.
Big Bluff Ranch's grass-fed meat is the translation of a healthy landscape into healthy food.
Jim Dempsey works in resource management for California State Parks and is an active member of the California Native Plant Society.
Wes Dempsy is an Emeritus Professor of Biology at California State University Chico. Wes has led hikes in the area for many years.
Michael Denega is a dynamic researcher and instructor at Folsom Lake College and Independent Learning Center. He has spent considerable time as
a researcher and wildlife photographer in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge with the Federal Migratory Bird Program.
Dan Efseaff is a Restoration Ecologist for River Partners whose main focus is on the implementation of river conservation projects.
Steve Emmons is an Assistant Refuge Manager for the Sacramento and Delevan National Wildlife Refuges (Sacramento National Wildlife Refuge Complex, Willows,
CA) since 1996.
Anna-Lise Feenstra was Altacal Audubon’s field trip coordinator for 12 years and has been a birder since 1967.
Jackie Ferrier has been a biologist for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service since 1993 and is currently stationed at Sacramento National Wildlife Refuge
Complex.
Mike Fisher is the current Co-Vice President of the local Altacal Audubon Chapter. He is an avid birder and volunteer bird bander at the Big Chico Creek
Ecological Reserve.
Marilyn Gamette is a retired US Fish and Wildlife Interpretative Specialist and is also the California Coordinator for the Federal Junior Duck Stamp Program.
Dawn Garcia has worked professionally as a wildlife biologist in Washington State. She has had her federal bird banding license for 12 years and has initiated
a variety of studies with songbirds and various owl species.
Gaylord Grams is an avid local birder and leads many field trips for the Altacal Chapter of the Audubon Society.
Herman Gray is a retired physician. While traveling the world for church health projects, he has enjoyed viewing many bird species. He is also an active Gray Lodge Wildlife Area docent.
Tom Griggs has designed and implemented riparian restoration projects along the Sacramento River for the past 18 years. He works for River Partners and is
a plant ecologist by training. He knows where to find birds and other wildlife on the river floodplain.
Bob Guzman serves on the Snow Goose Festival Steering Committee and is actively involved in the Gray Lodge Wildlife Area Wood Duck Program.
Leroy Hord, local birder, is actively involved in the Gray Lodge Wildlife Area Wood Duck Program.
Mike Hubbartt is a Middle Mountain Foundation board member actively involved in the preservation of the integrity of the Sutter Buttes for over twenty-three
years.
Liam Huber is known among local birders as a birding prodigy. With a life-list of over 340 species, Liam has birded many of the best hot-spots in the
country including Alaska, southeast Arizona and Pt. Reyes, identifying and photographing such rarities as: Long tailed Jaeger, Palm warbler and Aztec thrush.
Scott Huber, an avid birder and hunter, Scott has been thrilled by wild turkeys since first hearing them gobble in 1981. As chairman of the Chico Chapter
of the National Wild Turkey Federation, licensed California Turkey Hunting Guide and Field Trip Chairman for Altacal Audubon Society, Scott’s local experience is sure to provide a great morning
of birding and turkey watching.
Phil Johnson is the President of the Altacal Audubon Society member and coordinator of both the Oroville and Chico Christmas Bird Counts.
Steve King traded in his guns for cameras when he became interested in bird watching about 35 years ago. Steve is the second of three generations of bird watchers. His favorite birding spots are Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in Oregon, Upper Bidwell Park and the Sacramento National Wildlife Refuge.
Shelly Kirn is a dynamic instructor of field biology, zoology and plant science at CSU, Chico. |
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Roger Ledereris Professor Emeritus of Biological Sciences at CSU, Chico. He has taught ornithology and ecology courses, as well as worked with environmental organizations and schools.
Greg Massa is a 4th generation California rice farmer. He and his wife Raquel are former tropical biologists who decided that farming offered unique opportunities
for hands-on conservation and social work that were missing from their academic studies. They live in a strawbale house (built with their own rice straw) with their five children, and market
their organic rice under the Massa Organics label. Greg is also on the Boards of Directors of the Rice Producers of California, California Rice Commission, and the Glenn County Resource Conservation
District.
Mac McCormick is a retired high school biology teacher of 37 years and the co-director of the San Francisco State University (SFSU) Sierra Nevada Field Station Bird Banding Program. Mac has caught and banded thousands of birds that most people only hope to see.
Dan McKnight is part owner of the Book Family Farm.
Ed McLaughin has been the manager of the Chico Velo Cycling Club for the past 25 years.
Majorie McNairn has been a member of Mt. Lassen Chapter CNPS for many years, including various positions on the Board of Directors. She has been fascinated with the Thomes Creek Trail due to its unique variety of plants.
Mary Muchowski has worked as a wildlife technician/biologist since 1988 with the U.S. Forest Service, the Bureau of Land Management and the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service and currently has a business contracting with the Forest Service to conduct wildlife surveys. She has lived in and around Chico since 1983, and really enjoys the bird-life
of the area, especially in the winter!
Julie Nelson is a CSU, Chico graduate student who has spent the last three years as a bird banding volunteer with Dawn Garcia studying the migratory behavior of passerines and Northern
Saw-whet Owls. This is her fourth year as a volunteer for the Snow Goose Festival.
Gary Norcross is the Orchard Manager of the U.S. Forest Service Genetic Resource Center since 1975.
Bill Oliver is president of the Wintu Audubon Society in Redding, California.
Corky Quirk is a wildlife rehabilitator who specializes in bats and works with Wildlife Rehabilitation and Release, a nonprofit group based in Penn Valley. She is happy to dispel myths about bats.M
Marilyn Rose is one of the owners and founders of www.DiscountBinoculars.com and Out of
this World, located in the beautiful coastal town of Mendocino, overlooking the Pacific Ocean. Since 1988, this shop has offered a broad and intelligent selection of optics for birders, naturalists,
and travelers and is one of the largest optics sellers in California.
Peter Sands is one of the landowners of the Dean Ranch in the Sutter Buttes. He is a naturalist for the Middle Mountain Foundation and an enthusiastic ornithologist.
He has been the compiler of the Peace Valley Christmas bird count for the past 22 years.
Don Schmoldt has led a number of trips into Sutter Buttes since 1984. He is a professional wildlife biologist and naturalist, and has been a serious birder for nearly 45 years.
He was a staff wildlife biologist with the consulting firm LSA Associates, Inc., for 13 years, focusing primarily on special status wildlife species issues. From 1982 through 1993, He
has led a number of natural history expeditions, primarily in the western U.S., with one to Alaska and several to Baja California.
Jackson Shedd is an avid birder and past President of the Altacal Audubon Society. Jackson is also a local wildlife artist and author of Amphibians
and Reptiles of Bidwell Park.
Joe Silveira is a Wildlife Biologist for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service since 1990 and is currently stationed at Sacramento National Wildlife Refuge
Complex.
Mike Skram has had a passion for birds since the 4th grade when his teacher would point out and identify birds in the schoolyard. Today, Mike is one of the most skilled and passionate birders in Butte County, especially in his ability to identify many species by their songs.
Marty Steidlemayer is a Sutter Buttes landowner and rancher. Marty has an intimate knowledge of the Sutter Buttes landscapes.
Bill Stewart spent over twenty-five years presenting interpretive programs as a California State Park Ranger. He is now retired and is an avid kayaker
and birder.
Brad Stovall has been birding for 35 years. He is the author of the Lassen County field checklist of birds and author of the updated Butte County
field checklists of birds. He was also the sub-regional editor of American Birds for Lassen County for many years. He taught field identification of birds at Lassen College in
Susanville in the 1980s. He is currently working on a bird finding guide of Lassen County.
Scott Toricelli is an environmental educator for over twenty-five years. He currently teaches for the Chico Unified School District.
Andy Wahl is a master falconer for thirteen years. Andy currently teaches biology at Chico Junior High.
Bruce Webb. When he was a student at Chico State worked with Tim Manolis to write the Annotated List of Birds of Butte County. Currently, he is the
U.S. distributor of Wildlife Computing software products and is California’s Field Technician for Swarovski Optiks, USA.
Dale Whitmore is a Wildlife Biologist for the California Department of Fish and Game in Marysville.
John Whittlesey owns Canyon Creek Nursery, is the horticulture chairperson for the Mount Lassen Chapter of the California Native Plant Society and a graduate of the California School of Garden Design.
Kelly Williams is a Natural Resource Specialist for the Bureau of Land Management. He has been in the North Valley area for over twenty years.
Mike Williams is a life-long naturalist and has served as the Director of the Sedgwick Reserve in the Santa Ynez Valley. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Washington and has published in breeding bird censuses for the eastern Sierra Nevada in American Birds and possesses a master bird banding permit.
Darhl Whitlock grew up in Northern California. She is currently an instructor at CSU Chico where she teaches general biology and field biology.
Steve Zachary is a Park Ranger and the Education Specialist at Lassen Volcanic National Park for more than 16 years. He is an avid hiker and naturalist.
Dawit Zeleke is a Land Manager and Restoration Specialist for the Nature Conservancy.
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