Lexine Schroeder

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About Lexine Schroeder

Field Biologist working to conserve threatened and endangered species of California's Cental Valley including giant kangaroo rat, San Joaquin kit fox, California tiger salamander, blunt-nosed leopard lizard, burrowing owl, Swainson's hawk, and Crotch's bumblebee. Skills include bird monitoring, small mammal trapping and relocation, burrow excavation, and report writing. Prior to that, performed avian point counts and nest searches in giant sequoia groves and burned hazard tree plots in Sequoia-Kings Canyon National Parks with Institute for Bird Populations. Monitored for fisher and CA spotted owls and led nesting bird surveys for National Park Service biologists in SEKI as a Research Assistant with Great Basin Institute. Skilled with bird i.d. by sight and sound in the Sierra, Southern California, and Central Valley, nest searches, and avian point counts. Endangered species experience monitoring giant kangaroo rat, fisher, and California spotted owl.Experienced with remote and baited trail cameras, trapping small mammals, collaring fisher, mammal health checks and metrics, radiotelemetry, vegetation surveys, wayfinding with GPS, collecting digital data in the field, entering data in Access, and report writing. Attended San Joaquin urban kit fox workshop offered by The Wildlife Society. Volunteered with San Diego River Park Foundation on surveys for nesting birds, American Badger, and bioblitzes. Avid observer for iNaturalist and eBird. Formerly the volunteer Vegetation Coordinator for California Native Plant Society, San Diego chapter. Formerly a small business owner in interior plantscape design & horticulture.