Steven Glascock

Background

About Steven Glascock

With a conservation and restoration background of 10+ years, I am proud to currently work for the Land Trust of Santa Cruz County. The Land Trust is a small but dynamic group who are devoted to stewarding land, re-connecting fragmented landscapes, protecting rare and endangered species, and providing public access to some of Santa Cruz County's most beautiful and diverse landscapes. I have recently been appointed to the position of Stewardship Manager, where I support the Director of Land Stewardship in coordination of field work for our department, managing day-to-day field operations, equipment and fleet maintenance, and landscape construction and maintenance. I possess and maintain a C-27 Landscape Contractor's license, I am a Certified Ecological Restoration Practitioner (C.E.R.P.), and a Wilderness First Responder (W.F.R.). Past history: During my undergraduate at UCSC I worked with the UCSC Arboretum Director of Plant Collections and Research Brett Hall. During those years, I gained experience working with native and exotic plant species, and also wrote and updated a 15 year native plant management plan originally written by Grey Hayes. This work ultimately became 55 page program evaluation plan under the advice of Brett Hall and Restoration Ecology professor Dr. Karen Holl. This essay incorporated the Arboretum's devotion to Native Plant Conservation in California's Central Coast, as well as offer future management plans for the garden, its surrounding areas, and the student programs which are affiliated with it. The essay is still an open work, and through continual work with Brett Hall, student employees, and the UCSC Natural Reserve, ongoing and future management plans are to be derived from aerial photography and videography for GIS implications. In the Fall of 2015, I joined the UC Natural Reserves field course focused on research methods, data analysis, and public speaking. I graduated UCSC in 2016 and worked for 6 weeks in the Spring of 2016 as a field assistant for Josie Lesage in Karen Holl's lab. I then worked full time for Central Coast Wilds and Ecological Concerns Inc. as a nursery assistant, an associate ecologist, and crew foreman planting native landscapes and stewarding open space regions between Monterey and San Francisco. I was able to apply my landscape knowledge and leadership skills again for the UC Natural Reserve System in a 6 week research deployment to collect ecological data for wildfire ecology studies in 2021, prior to joining the Land Trust of Santa Cruz County, where I currently work.