EDUCATION
       PhD. Botany, 1976 University of California, Davis
        M.S. Botany, 1974 University of California, Davis
        B.A. Biology, 1970 California State University, Fresno

LATEST 15-MINUTES OF FAME
    Science News 2 January 1999, Vol. 155 No. 1
    National Wildlife December/January 2000

COMMEMORATIVE SPECIES
    Yosemite Fawnlily (Erythronium taylori, cf. Madrono 44:359-363. 1997)

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY
1995-present  Consultant
    1984-1994 Botanist to BioSystems Analysis, Inc.
        Senior Botanist Santa Cruz, California
    1982-1984 Research Associate Oregon State University
        and Cooperator Department of Forest Science and U.S.D.A. Forestry Sciences Lab.
    1981 The Mono Lake Committee Lee Vining, California
        (see National Geographic Vol. 160:504. 1981)
    1980 Lecturer Environmental Studies Board, University of California, Santa Cruz
    1978-1979 Post-doctoral Lecturer, Mountain Research Station, Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research,
        University of Colorado, Boulder
    1977 Lecturer Department of Biology,San Francisco State University

SELECTED RECENT PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
    • 1995-Present Rare Plant Scientific Advisory Committee, California Native Plant Society
    • 1996 First Vice President, California Botanical Society
     • 1994. Kern Water Bank Habitat Conservation Plan Advisory Committee, California Division of Water Resources
     • 1994. Linear facilities Mitigation Task Force. California Department of Fish & Game and U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service.
     • 1992-94. San Joaquin Bioregion Technical Committee
     • 1990. International Association Vegetation Science, Southwestern U.S. Field Excursion leader.
     • 1987-94. Bureau of Land Management, Bakersfield District. San Benito Evening Primrose recovery planning.
     • 1987. Large-flowered Fiddleneck Recovery Team, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
     • 1984-1987. Riparian Technical Advisory Committee, PG&E and Southern California Edison
     • 1984. Workshop on Instream Flow Requirements for Riparian Vegetation in the Sierra Nevada
        organized by Pacific Gas and Electric Company and the Southern California Edison Company.
     • 1980. Program Chairman, Ecological Society of America, Western Section,
        annual meeting with the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
     • 1977-1982. Board of Editors, California Botanical Society for Madroño
     • 1973-1986. Instructor, Yosemite Natural History Association, Yosemite National Park, CA.
     • 1975-1985. Consulting Ecologist to U.S. Forest Service, Research Natural Areas Committee.
     • 1973-1979. Extension Instructor, University of California (Berkeley & Davis campuses).
     • 1973-1978. Winter Ecology Instructor, Teton Science School, Jackson, Wyoming
     • 1972-1974. Board of Directors and Rare Plant Committee, California Native Plant Society.

SELECTED EXPERT TESTIMONY EXPERIENCE
• 1984-1985. Expert testimony for U.S. Department of Justice in: State of California vs. United States, Civil No. S-80-696, U.S.D.C., E.D., Cal., ownership of relicted lands at Mono Lake, CA. A precedent-setting case, affirmed on appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court, relating to the ownership of lands exposed by evulsion.

• 1987-89. County of Sacramento v. East Bay Municipal Utilities District. Litigation pertaining to environmental impacts of diverting 140,000 acre-feet/year from the American River on the Lower American River Park in Sacramento.

• 1995. Simpson Timber Company Vernal Pool Wetland Enforcement Action. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Served the Government as an expert on ecological impacts of Eucalyptus plantations on endangered plants and vernal pools (see San Francisco Chronicle, Thursday October 31, 1996, p. A16)

• 1991-94 Pacific Gas and Electric Company, Pipeline Expansion Project. Directed surveys for endangered plants. $2 billion dollar project with $4 million dollar restoration costs for vernal pools.