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Conservation Ecology Program Quick Facts:
Created in 1992
Purpose: research, assessment, and monitoring of wildlife combined with public outreach
Operating Budget: $250,000

Projects:

1. Banding Lab, long-term avian demographic trends (1992-present)

2. Analysis of avian guild species diversity in the Carmel River riparian corridor (1992-present)

3. Avian use of Creamery Meadow Restoration Project, Andrew Molera State Park, Big Sur, CA (1993-1995, 2007)

4. Carmel River Lagoon Avian Monitoring Project (1995-present)

5. Carmel River Monitoring Avian Productivity and Survivorship (2000-present)

6. Monarch Butterfly winter demography, overwintering strategy, and within site dynamics (2001-present)

7. Camp Roberts Avian Monitoring Program: Monitoring Avian Abundance, Productivity and Survivorship (2002-present)

8. Micro-climate parameters associated with three overwintering Monarch Butterfly habitats in central California, study sites include Andrew Molera State Park (stands A and B) and Point Lobos State Reserve (2002-present)

9. Sensitive species report: Least Bell’s Vireo and abundance and diversity of other riparian-associated birds at Camp Roberts California Army National Guard Training site (2003-present)

10. Carmel Middle School Bird Banding Education Project (2003-present)

11. Evaluating diverter effectiveness at reducing avian collisions, San Luis National Wildlife Refuge Complex, Los Banos, CA (2005-present)

12. Bald Eagle monitoring at Camp Roberts California Army National Guard Training Facility (2003-2006)


13. California Spotted Owl (Strix occidentalis occidentalis) population demography of Los Padres National Forest, Ventana Wilderness, Big Sur (2006)

14. Avian Diversity and Abundance in Salinas River National Wildlife Refuge (1994-95, 2006)

15. Avian Diversity and Abundance in East Molera Grasslands, Andrew Molera State Park , Big Sur, CA. (2001-2005)

16. Monitoring Avian Diversity and Abundance in the Odello West Restoration Site, Carmel, California (2005)

17. Power structure risk assessment and avian protection plan for Camp Roberts Army National Guard training site (2005)

18. Barn Owl Monitoring and Education Project, Hilton Bialek Habitat, Carmel Middle School, Carmel, CA. (2003)

19. Los Padres National Forest Rapid Ornithological Inventory, Big Sur, CA. (2000)

Funders: California Department of Parks and Recreation, California Army National Guard, California Energy Commission, Monterey Peninsula Audubon Society; California Polytechnic University at San Luis Obispo; Monterey Peninsula Water Management District; fundraisers and workshops, foundations (Marisla, Packard, Fledgling Fund), in kind from Pacific Gas and Electric (PG&E) and Patagonia; members, visitor donations, school and tour groups

Single year statistics for VWS Conservation Ecology