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LD Ford Rangeland
Conservation Science: L. FORD
QUALIFICATIONS
Dr. Ford is an expert in the
ecology and management of conservation lands,
including rangeland livestock management and
infrastructure requirements, with 30 years experience
in professional consulting, research, and education.
In addition to his private consulting practice,
he is a Research Associate in the Department
of Environmental Studies, University of California,
Santa Cruz. He has a long history of pro bono
service to professional, non-profit conservation,
and conservation policy organizations.
Recent projects include:
- Grazing management
and monitoring prescriptions for special-status
fauna and flora habitat, fire hazard reduction,
and pest plant control (California)
- Rangeland ecosystem
health indicators for management planning,
monitoring, and certification on California
ranches with the Central Coast Rangeland Coalition
(Cooperative Agreement with the U.S.D.A. Natural
Resources Conservation Service)
- Scientific
guidelines for livestock grazing management
of upland habitat of the California tiger
salamander and California red-legged frog,
both listed as threatened (grants from the
National Fish and Wildlife Foundation and
Pacific Gas and Electric Company; cooperation
with the Alameda County Resource Conservation
District)
- Burning, grazing,
and herbicide effects on an invasive non-native
grass (grants from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife
Service, Hawaii)
- Grazing effects
on riparian woodlands and wildlife habitat
(California and Arizona)
- Riparian resources
research program evaluations (California)
He recently completed the chapter
"Northern Coastal Scrub and Coastal Prairie"
(with G.F. Hayes) for the UC Press's third edition
of Terrestrial
Vegetation of California. UC Press invited
and is reviewing his proposal to write a book
on grazing of conservation lands in California.
In 2007, he was appointed Chair
of the Certification Panel of the California-Pacific
Section of the Society for Range Management,
which he also served as Director from 2007 through
2008. In 2007, he was appointed the founding
chair of the Research Committee of the California
Rangeland Conservation Coalition (CRCC), an
important new cooperative movement for better
conservation of the state's rangelands, lead
by influential politicians, federal and state
agency representatives, conservation groups,
private ranchers, and other rangeland managers.
- Natural vegetation
ecology, history, restoration, and management
- Livestock grazing
and rangelands
- Habitat of
special-status wildlife, plants, and natural
communities
- Fire hazards
- Wildland pest
plants
- Monitoring
design and methods
- Ecosystem health
indicators
- Conservation
enhancement in agricultural and urban-interface
landscapes
- Science and
Diplomacy Fellow, American Association for
the Advancement of Science. (1991-92 and 1992-93)
- Certificate
of Appreciation (for Melanesian project),
U.S.D.A. Forest Service, International Forestry
(1993)
- Charles Lathrop
Pack Prize (for professional publication),
University of California, Berkeley (1989)
- Regents' Fellow,
University of California, Berkeley (1984-85
and 1985-86)
Ph.D. Vegetation Ecology (Wildland
Resource Science), University of California,
Berkeley. 1991
M.S. Rangeland Ecology and Management (Range
Management), University of California, Berkeley.
1986
B.A. Biology, University of California, Santa
Cruz. 1978
B.A. Environmental Studies (Natural History),
University of California, Santa Cruz. 1978
Click
here for a list (PDF) of continuing
education activities in the last 10 years.
- Assisting Professor
Kenneth
S. Norris to develop and lead the Natural
History Field Quarter and the Environmental
Field Program in the Department
of Environmental Studies at the University
of California, Santa Cruz (1977-1984)
- Completing
Ph.D. at the University of California, Berkeley
with Professor James
W. Bartolome (1991)
- Traveling to
very remote parts of Central America and Melanesia
as a scientific advisor to the U.S. Agency
for International Developmment, and assisting
people there in forest conservation programs
(1991-1994)
- Sponsoring
the oral history biographies of his two elder
mentors, Professors Kenneth
S. Norris and Raymond
F. Dasmann before their deaths (1998 and 2002), organizing
their memorial services (on behalf of their families) at the University
of California, Santa Cruz (1998 and 2003), and compiling their academic libraries and papers for archiving in Special Collections at the University Library (2005-2011)
- Establishing
consulting business and completing some important
academic research and writing projects (1995-present)
- Marrying Susan
Merritt, the great yoga teacher (2002)
- Coordinating the posthumous publication of the last book of the late Prof. Kenneth S. Norris,"Mountain Time / Reflections on the Natural World and Our Place in It" (2004-2010)
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