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Linda Angerer is a U.S. Forest Service wildlife Biologist and currently the Bat Coordinator for California’s National Forests.
Jeremey Ashe is a CSU Chico Graduate Student and President of the CSUC Student Chapter of the California Waterfowl Association (CWA).
Skip Augur is publicity and webmaster of the White-Tailed Kite, the local Altacal Audubon Society's newsletter.
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 schoolchildren and families.
Daniel Barth has worked as a guide through the Sutter Buttes and surrounding region since 1992. He is president of the Yuba Historical Society.
Jay Bogiatto is Station Manager at CSU, Chico's Eagle Lake Field Station, and Director of the Biology Department's Vertebrate Museum and teaches ornithology, waterfowl biology and zoology at CSU, Chico.
Rex Burress a long time naturalist, wildlife artist, outdoor photographer, and nature writer is retired from the Lake Merritt Refuge in Oakland.
Zack Chambers has been a California State Park Ranger for 8 years. His current work location is the Valley Sector of the Northern Buttes District.
Dave Dahnke has been a birding enthusiast for over twenty years. He has sighted over 450 species of birds.
Tyler Dawley of 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.
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.
Lori Dieter is the Naturalist at the California Department of Fish and Game Gray Lodge Wildlife Area. With a degree in Natural Resources and Parks Management from CSU Chico, ecology has been her life-long interest. Her enthusiasm form wetlands and waterfowl is highly contagious.
Dan Dugan is best known as the inventor of the automatic microphone mixer. He has been a technical mentor for the Nature Sounds Society for over twenty years. He has published six “relaxation CD’s” of nature sounds, so far.
Dan Efseaff is a Restoration Ecologist, with the Yolo County Resource District. He has over a decade of experience working on restoration and conservation projects along rivers in the Central Valley. Dan is also an instructor for Kayak in Northern California (KayakINC.org), and an American Canoe Association certified instructor for whitewater and sea kayaking.
Steve Emmons is a Wildlife Refuge Manager for the Sacramento and Delevan National Wildlife Refuges (Sacramento National Wildlife Refuge Complex, Willows, CA) since 1996.
Mike Fisher is the current Co-Vice President of the local Altacal Audubon Chapter. He is an avid birder and licensed bird bander.
Dawn Garcia works professionally as a wildlife biologist. She has had her federal bird banding license for 15 years and has initiated 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 in his profession, 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 has been active volunteer in the Fray Lodge Wildlife Area Wood Duck Program for over ten years.
Bill Haas is CEO of Pacific Coast Alliance and on the board of the Mt. Lassen Chapter of the Native Plant Society.
Leroy Hord, local birder, is actively involved in the Gray Lodge Wildlife Area Wood Duck Program.
Mike Hubbartt, author, CA State Park Interpreter and a Middle Mountain Foundation board member has been actively involved in the preservation of the integrity of the Sutter Buttes for over twenty-four years.
Scott Huber has led field workshops on the subject of birding-by-ear as well as guiding bird- watchers throughout the western U.S. and Alaska. In 2009 he was employed surveying birds in southern California using primarily vocal ID methods. He is Altacal Audubon Education Chair and in on the Board of Directors of Audubon California.
Lin Jensen is founder and teacher of the Chico Zen Sangha. He also is Senior Buddhist Chaplin to the High Desert State Prison in Susanville. Lin is also a birder, served seven years as sub-regional editor for American Birds magazine, and has contributed articles to Bird Watcher Digest. He is the author of several books on what might be called "natural Zen."
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 teaches field biology, ecology, and other classes at CSU, Chico. She is a faculty advisor to the honors biology student club (Omicron Theta Epsilon) and the Chico State Birding Club (CSBS). Shelly has been birding for 15 years and enjoys traveling throughout the US (and occasionally beyond) to see birds.
Ryan Luster works for the Nature Conservancy.
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Greg Massa is a 4th generation California rice farmer. He and his wife Raquel are former tropical biologists. They live in a straw bale 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.
Charlie Mathews and his family have been farmers in the area north of Marysville for multiple generations. He and family members are leaders in the rice industry and waterfowl conservation.
John “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.
Marjorie McNairn had led wildflower field trips for Mt. Lassen Chapter of the California Native Plant Society for over 25 years, and has compiled plant lists for several locations around this area.
Holly Meyers is a Park Ranger for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. She has been an educator in the public school system and in the federal land management field for the past five years.
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 the 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 four years as a bird banding volunteer with Dawn Garcia studying the migratory behavior of passerines and Northern Saw-whet Owls. This is her fifth year as a volunteer for the Snow Goose Festival.
Nancy Nelson is the current Altacal Audubon field trip coordinator and has been active in Altacal for 3 years.
Michelle Ocken is a graduate from CSU, Chico where she studied wildlife biology. While attending CSU Chico, she founded the Chico State Birding Club and is a member of the local Audubon Society. She has worked at the Sacramento National Wildlife Refuge where she led school groups and weekend birding tours.
Sharon Perry has worked as an environmental educator. She is currently the chair of the Nature Sounds Society.
Mike Peters is the Refuge Manager for Colusa and Sutter Refuges, part of the Sacramento National Wildlife Refuge Complex.
Michael Rogner has 8+ years experience studying a wide array of wildlife including marine mammals, white sharks, and birds in multiple habitats. He specializes in how riparian songbirds respond to restoration, and has the opportunity to design and implement restoration projects as a biologist for River Partners.
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.
Ron Sanford has been a professional photographer for over thirty years. Along with his wife Nancy, he has traveled the world taking photos for hundreds of calendars and magazines, including National Geographic, Audubon, National Wildlife and many others.
See the bio at the top of this page.
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, where some of his duties include wildlife habitat programs at Llano Seco.
Marty Steidlemayer is a Sutter Buttes landowner and rancher. Marty has an intimate knowledge of the Sutter Buttes landscapes.
Dick Thieriot is a decendent of John & Abby Parrott who purchased Llano Seco Rancho in the 1860’s, and now co-owner of Llano Seco Ranch, where he has implemented diverse riparian, freshwater wetland, ranching and farming conservation practices.
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.
Greg Weddig has fifteen years of experience in the professional audio industry, the last 7 or 8 have involved nature recording. He is a member of the Nature Sounds Society, a founding member of the Maryland Nature Recordists and has taught field recording and editing classes. Greg is currently spending time scouting for recording locations near his home in Northern California and trying.
Darhl Whitlock grew up in Northern California. She is currently an instructor at CSU, Chico, where she teaches general biology and field biology.
Dale Whitmore is a Wildlife Biologist for the California Department of Fish and Game in Sutter, Yolo, and Sacramento Counties.
John Whittlesey owns Canyon Creek Nursery & Design. He has served as the horticulture chairperson for the Mount Lassen Chapter of the California Native Plant Society and is a graduate of the California School of Garden Design.
Mike Williams is a life-long naturalist of the foothills of the Sierra Nevada and Cascades. Prior to arriving at Butte College, he served as the Director of the Sedgwick Reserve in the Santa Ynez Valley. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Washington. He has published in breeding bird censuses for the eastern Sierra Nevada in American Birds and possessed a master bird-banding permit for many years.
Alicia Young is a biologist with the Point Reyes Bird Observatory. She has worked and birded extensively throughout northern California and has spent the past several winters birding in the Yucatan of Mexico, Western Australia, and Costa Rica. For the past four years, she has worked extensively on the Clear Creek floodway restoration project in Redding.
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.
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