Appendix:
Author Biosketches and Addresses
Janie Agyagos received her B.S. from Arizona
State University in 1993. She is currently the Wildlife Staff Officer for the Beaver Creek/Sedona Ranger
District on the Coconino National Forest. In 1997,
as part of the Forest Service’s Seven Species effort,
she led a team that reviewed all Forest Service
activities near occupied and suitable southwestern
willow flycatcher sites. That team then developed
short- and long-term management actions and guidelines to protect the flycatcher and its habitat on
National Forest Systems lands throughout Arizona
and New Mexico. Janie’s duties as District Wildlife
officer include managing for and protecting 50
threatened, endangered and sensitive species, including the southwestern willow flycatcher.
Jean-Luc E. Cartron is Director of Research at
Hawks Aloft, Inc., and Research Assistant Professor
at the University of New Mexico. He received a
Ph.D. in Biology from the University of New Mexico.
His research experience in Conservation Biology
includes a 7-year study on ospreys in the Gulf of
California, Mexico; a study on the impact of electrocutions by power poles among raptors in northwestern Chihuahua, Mexico; a study on the distribution
and productivity of nesting ferruginous hawks in
relation to prairie dogs in central and western New
Mexico; and a study of noise disturbance impacts on
the distribution and reproductive success of golden
eagles in northwestern New Mexico. As a Research
Wildlife Biologist at the Rocky Mountain Research
Station from 1997 until 2000, he coedited with
Deborah M. Finch a conservation assessment for the
cactus ferruginous pygmy-owl. His research interests include life history theory, evolutionary biology, and raptor and Threatened and Endangered
species conservation.
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Deborah M. Finch is a Research Wildlife Biologist
and Project Leader with the USDA Forest Service’s
Rocky Mountain Research Station in Albuquerque.
She is also Research Associate Professor in the Department of Biology at University of New Mexico and
Adjunct Professor at Northern Arizona’s School of
Forestry. She received her B.S. in Wildlife Management from Humboldt State University, California, her
M.S. in Zoology from Arizona State University, and
her Ph.D. in Zoology from the University of Wyoming.
Deborah’s research interests include Neotropical migratory bird ecology and reproduction, bird migration,
endangered species, riparian and grassland ecosystem ecology and conservation, and relationships between commodity use and natural resources. Deborah
has published more than 80 articles and journal papers and is an active member of several professional
societies. Since 1998, she has served as Leader of the
Technical Subgroup of the Recovery Team for the
Southwestern Willow Flycatcher.
Lloyd Goldwasser received his A.B. degree in mathematics and music from the University of California,
Berkeley, in 1976, and completed a masters degree in
mathematics there in 1979. He completed his Ph.D. in
zoology at UC Berkeley in 1987. He is currently working on California salmonids for the National Marine
Fisheries Service (NOAA) at the Tiburon/Santa Cruz
laboratory. He has also modeled the populations dynamics of spotted owls and corals, and has worked on
the ecological effects of invasions by non-native species of snails in California estuaries and of plants in
California grasslands.
Jeff Kelly is a Research Wildlife Biologist at the
Rocky Mountain Research Station in Albuquerque.
He received a Ph.D. in Zoology from the Department
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of Biology at Colorado State University in 1996, a
M.S. in Zoology from Oklahoma State University in
1991, and a B.S. in Wildlife Ecology from the University of Maine in 1987. Jeff’s research focuses on avian
ecology and current projects include: stopover biology of Neotropical migrants, distribution, abundance and habitat use of grassland birds, avian
biodiversity of golf courses, and effects of riparian
restoration on bird community structure.
today. He received a M.A. in medical anthropology
from the University of Montana in 1987 and a B.A. in
anthropology from the same university in 1985. From
1987 to 1995, Richard worked as the Heritage Resource Manager and Tribal Governments Coordinator
on the Deerlodge National Forest, in the Forest Service’s
Northern Region. He has conducted research ranging
from the socioculture aspects of malaria control to the
effects of historic mining on landscape development.
Rob Marshall is Conservation Sciences Program
Manager for The Nature Conservancy’s Arizona
Chapter in Tucson. Rob oversees the Chapter’s research, monitoring, and restoration programs as
well as the Chapter’s ecoregional and site conservation planning projects. He is currently leading a
binational, interdisciplinary effort to identify conservation priorities and management needs in the
Sonoran Desert Ecoregion. Rob received a B.A. in
Human Ecology from College of the Atlantic and an
M.F.S. in Wildlife Ecology from the School of Forestry at Yale University. His academic training is in
avian ecology, wetlands, and wildlife management.
Prior to joining the Nature Conservancy Rob worked
on endangered species management and research
projects for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, U.S.
Forest Service Rocky Mountain Forest and Range
Experiment Station, Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology, and Manomet Bird Observatory.
Mark K. Sogge is an Ecologist with the Colorado
Plateau Field Station, Flagstaff, Arizona; a unit of the
U.S. Geological Survey Forest and Rangeland Ecosystem Science Center. He has worked as a biologist for a
variety of federal agencies since 1983. He graduated
from San Jose State University, California with a B.A.
in Biochemistry, and obtained an M.A. in Zoology from
the University of California at Davis. His research
interests include avian monitoring programs and protocols, southwestern riparian bird communities, and
the ecology of endangered birds. He first studied willow flycatchers in 1988 in the northern Sierra Nevada
and southern Cascade Mountains. Since 1992, he has
been coordinating and conducting southwestern willow flycatcher studies throughout the southwest, and
in portions of its wintering range in Central America.
His research emphasis has been on flycatcher demography, breeding ecology, population genetics, and winter ecology and conservation.
Tracy McCarthey received her B.S. degree from
Arizona State University in 1990, then completed
two years of graduate work at the University of
Arkansas. She is currently the Southwestern Willow
Flycatcher Project Coordinator at the Arizona Game
and Fish Department. Her current responsibilities
include: administration of a willow flycatcher survey
and nest monitoring project with over 30 hired employees, producing willow flycatcher management
recommendations, reviewing critical documents, and
synthesizing data from annual, state-wide willow
flycatcher surveys.
Scott H. Stoleson is a Research Wildlife Biologist
with the Rocky Mountain Research Station in Albuquerque, New Mexico. He received a B.A. in Biological
Science from Dartmouth College, and a Ph.D. in Wildlife Ecology from Yale University. His research interests include breeding biology and demography of
birds, parrot biology and conservation, population
modeling, riparian conservation, conservation of nonforested tropical habitats, the biology of invasive exotic species, endangered species management, and
mycology. He has worked on birds and other wildlife in
the western U.S., Costa Rica, Panamá, Ecuador, and
Venezuela. His current research examines the breeding biology and habitat associations of southwestern
willow flycatchers and other riparian birds in the Gila
River Valley of New Mexico.
Richard D. Periman is a Research Archaeologist
with Rocky Mountain Research Station’s Cultural
Heritage Research Unit, where he has worked since
1995. He is currently writing his Ph.D. dissertation in
Environment Science and Technology, under the Department of American Studies at the University of
New Mexico. His research topic is the development of
an interdisciplinary approach for identifying, quantifying, and interpreting long-term landscape history
and human-induced environmental change. This study
focuses on the nature and extent of human-environmental interaction in order to understand better the
socio-ecodynamics of human activities and their possible continuing influence on the landscapes we see
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J.C. “Jamie” Uyehara received her B.S. degree
from University of California at Davis in 1981, and
then worked in positions involving exotic animal
management. Realizing that more information was
needed in order to manage and recover endangered
birds, she entered the graduate program at UCLA.
Her dissertation was “Correlates and field experiments of nest searching behavior in a brood parasite,
the brown-headed cowbird” (1996). Currently, she is
working as a wildlife biologist with the Los Padres
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National Forest in central and southern California.
She still believes that research and good analyses are
needed when managing for endangered species, but
time is a luxury for both the endangered species and
the land managers.
Mary J. Whitfield is the research director at the
Southern Sierra Research Station. She obtained a B.S.
degree in Wildlife and Fisheries Biology from U.C.
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Davis, and a M.S. degree in Biology from California
State University, Chico. Mary has worked on a longterm breeding ecology study of the southwestern
willow flycatcher since 1989. In addition, she has
studied the effects of a brown-headed cowbird trapping program (started in 1993) on the reproductive
success of the southwestern willow flycatcher. For the
last two winters, Mary has also worked on a wintering
willow flycatcher distribution study in Central America.
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Name
Affiliation/Address
Janie Agyagos
Coconino National Forest
Sedona Ranger District
P.O. Box 300
Sedona, AZ 86339
e-mail: jagyagos@fs.fed.us
Jean-Luc E. Cartron
Hawks Aloft, Inc.
3101 Dakota NE
Albuquerque, NM 87110
e-mail: jcartron@rt66.com
Deborah Finch
Rocky Mountain Research Station
2205 Columbia SE
Albuquerque, NM 87106
e-mail: dfinch@fs.fed.us
Lloyd Goldwasser
National Marine Fisheries Service
Southwest Fisheries Science Center
3150 Paradise Dr.
Tiburon, CA 94920-1211
e-mail: lloyd.goldwasser@noaa.gov
Jeffrey Kelly
Rocky Mountain Research Station
2205 Columbia SE
Albuquerque, NM 87106
e-mail: jkelly@fs.fed.us
Rob Marshall
The Nature Conservancy
300 E. University Blvd., Suite 230
Tucson, AZ 85705
e-mail: rmarshtnc@aol.com
Tracy McCarthey
Arizona Game and Fish Department
2221 W. Greenway Rd.
Phoenix, AZ 85023
e-mail: tmccarthey@gf.state.az.us
Richard Periman
Rocky Mountain Research Station
2205 Columbia SE
Albuquerque, NM 87106
e-mail: rperiman@fs.fed.us
Mark Sogge
U.S. Geological Survey
Forest and Rangeland Ecosystem
Science Center
Colorado Plateau Field Station
P.O. Box 5614
Flagstaff, AZ 86011
e-mail: mark.sogge@nau.edu
Scott Stoleson
Rocky Mountain Research Station
2205 Columbia SE
Albuquerque, NM 87106
e-mail: sstoleson@fs.fed.us
Jamie Uyehara
Los Padres National Forest
6755 Hollister Suite 150
Goleta, CA 93117
e-mail: jwilson@fs.fed.us
Mary Whitfield
Kern River Research Center
P.O. Box 1316
Weldon, CA 93283
e-mail: wifl@lightspeed.net