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Our mission is to provide our clients with high quality natural and cultural resource products and services, so that they can make informed resource CCC is dedicated to assisting non-profit conservation organizations, and ascribes to the professional credos of:
STATEMENT OF QUALIFICATIONS Condor Country Consulting Statement of Qualifications.pdf SPECIAL CERTIFICATIONS
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OUR STAFF Wendy K. Dexter, Principal Sean Dexter, Project Manager and Principal Archeologist Samantha Weber, Senior Biologist Amando Cuellar, Staff Archeologist Katrina Brinckmann, Biological Technician
. Ms. Dexter has sixteen years of professional experience as a wildlife biologist, with an emphasis in herpetology, raptor biology, and large branchiopod biology. Over the years she has gained valuable experience with local, state and federal government projects. She has provided biological documentation, Section 7 consultation, and directed special-status species surveys for various private, county, state and federal clients including the San Francisco Water Department, San Mateo County Public Works, the Federal Emergency Management Agency, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory/University of California, California Energy Commission, California Department of Transportation (Caltrans), Contra Costa Public Works, and the City of Hercules. Types of projects Ms. Dexter has participated in include road construction and realignment, flood control, construction monitoring, long-term mitigation and monitoring for a dam, hydroelectric facility re-certification, timber harvest, natural community conservation planning, and numerous small developments. For these projects, Ms. Dexter performed habitat assessments, prepared Biological Assessments and drafts of Natural Environment Studies (NESs), GIS/GPS habitat mapping, mitigation site analysis, and conducted surveys for and/or trapping of San Francisco garter snake, California red-legged frog, foothill yellow-legged frog, California tiger salamander, fairy shrimp, tadpole shrimp, western pond turtle, raptors, bats, small mammals, and fish. She has also prepared habitat assessments, biology sections for mitigated negative declarations, and managed formal Section 7 consultation with National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) and United States Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) on salmon and spotted owl issues.
. Mr. Dexter has fourteen years of experience in the cultural resource management field with specialization in prehistoric and historic archaeology. He has directed archaeological site testing programs and data recovery excavations, large-scale archaeological reconnaissance surveys, numerous record searches, as well as the construction project monitoring. He has managed large projects in California and Nevada, and consulted with the Nevada and California State Historic Preservation Offices. Mr. Dexter has extensive experience as an interdisciplinary team member on numerous projects, and has made significant contributions to a number of Environmental Assessments and Environmental Impact Statements to support National Environmental Policy Act activities. Mr. Dexter has handled Native American Consultations with numerous federally and non-federally recognized Tribes throughout California. He has successfully managed Section 106 (National Historic Preservation Act) compliance, evaluation and review, contract development and administration, prepared and managed heritage resource inventories, prepared Civil Rights Impact Analyses, prepared heritage resource specialist reports for archaeological surveys and site evaluations, and produced interpretive displays. Mr. Dexter has authored specialist reports and selected chapters of California Environmental Quality Act documents including Environmental Impact Reports, fatal flaw analyses, negative declarations, and initial studies. Most recently he has managed and directed fieldwork for archaeological excavations and surveys in the San Francisco Bay Area. Mr. Dexter also has considerable experience as a biological technician in support of professional biologists. His involvement with these projects included GIS/GPS habitat mapping, surveys for and/or trapping of San Francisco garter snake, California red-legged frog, foothill yellow-legged frog, California tiger salamander, fairy shrimp, tadpole shrimp, western pond turtle, numerous raptors, small mammals, and fish.
. Ms. Weber has fourteen years of experience in conservation biology and natural resource management. In the year 2000, she was nationally recognized for her resource management accomplishments by the National Park Service, named the NPS Small Park Manager of the Year. Ms. Weber is particularly experienced in evaluating, coordinating, and conducting natural resource inventory and monitoring programs, including associated data management, using and directing the use of geographic information systems, and coordinating the activities of scientists and other partners, all toward the goal of informing resource management decisions. Ms. Weber has conducted and/or coordinated the inventory or monitoring of the marine rocky inter-tidal community (17 taxa or taxonomic groups), reptiles and amphibians, terrestrial invertebrates, small mammals, carnivores, terrestrial vascular plants, air quality (visibility), and breeding birds. In a recent position, she directed an inventory and monitoring program for eight National Park units, overseeing a budget of over one million dollars. Most of her accomplishments have been made possible through developing diverse and productive partnerships with local, state, and federal governments, universities, private consultants, volunteers, and natural and cultural history associations. For over two and one-half years, Ms. Weber has focused solely on planning and compliance in California, working in a highly scrutinized, litigious environment. In recent positions, her primary function has been to pull together both natural and cultural resource information to support environmental planning and compliance (National Environmental Policy Act, NEPA), conduct data gap analyses, and propose strategies to fill critical data gaps, and coordinate those efforts. Ms. Weber contributed significantly as a member of interdisciplinary planning teams to accomplish a number of goals, including a Wild and Scenic River Comprehensive Management Plan, a Development Concept Plan, and a district implementation plan. Ms. Weber coordinated a large wetlands mapping effort which she designed to inform many different projects in one region. Her most recent efforts have been producing Natural Environment Reports in support of transportation projects to comply with environmental laws (NEPA and California Environmental Quality Act, CEQA). . Mr. Cuellar has over six years experience in archeology working for both private companies, a non-profit trust, and a tribal government. Currently conducting research in the Yucatan to complete his Master’s Thesis, Mr. Cuellar has also served as principal archaeologist for several projects. He has monitored buried prehistoric and historic sites potentially affected by levee construction and biological mitigation along a river, coordinated with construction crews and engineers on monitoring needs and schedule, maintained daily monitoring logs, responded to emergency discoveries, and coordinated with Native American monitors. As Principal Archeologist, he has supervised a crew of about 6 while excavating 120 cubic yards of lead contaminated soil around in the Presidio of San Francisco. Mr. Cuellar successfully completed all of the extensive formal and informal documentation, and recording, measuring and drawing newly discovered of archaeological features that this project required. Mr. Cuellar’s thesis research is aimed at collecting historical information about the cathedral of Merida, which is the oldest in the American Continent. He is searching Spanish Colonial documents found in various libraries and churches in the City of Merida in Yucatan, translating old Spanish manuscripts into English, and interacting extensively with Mexican Government officials and members of the Mexican clergy. . Wildlands Studies Program, Hawaii Ms. Brinckmann has 18 months of professional experience as a biological laboratory technician where she gained experience in the use of various laboratory research techniques including gel electrophoresis/Western blots, spectrophotometry, cell culturing, transfection and immunofluoresence. She analyzed petrochemical content of air water and soil, using GC/MS machines. Her field experience includes on-the-job training at Condor Country consulting, and plant ecology classes at UC Davis. Some of these experiences include sampling photosynthesis with the LI-COR 6200 and the LI-COR 6400; measuring leaf temperature, leaf angle, and photosynthetically active radiation on the leaf surface; tree type, size and density sampling using the "point-centered quarter method.” In addition, she can identify many species of birds since her work as a docent and Flyway Assistant in Davis, CA.
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