Grassland Restoration Practitioners

In The Nature Conservancy’s California Chapter, Scott serves as a Lead Scientist in the Land Program, overseeing science, stewardship, including, cattle grazing, and land protection across TNC’s more than 400,000-acre grassland and oak woodland conservation estate. Scott is also the lead scientist for the Strategic Restoration Scientist in the San Joaquin Valley and TNC’s lead for participation as a management partner at the Carrizo Plain National Monument.

• Rangeland Restoration
• Remote Sensing
• Wildlife Monitoring

Adam Canter is a native of southern Appalachia and Humboldt State University Botany alumni (08) and current Luong Rangeland Ecology Lab graduate student working as the Natural Resource Director for the Wiyot Tribe within their ancestral territory around the Humboldt Bay area. Adam’s focus areas include the identification and protection of ethnobotanical sites within North Coast prairie and scrub systems and championing the use of culturally important plants where appropriate in ecological restoration projects. Adam helps to oversee the fledging Wiyot Native Plant Nursery seed collection efforts and works with Tribal administration to facilitate Indigenous land return and coastal prairie ecocultural restoration projects. Adam is currently working on a coastal prairie restoration experiment at the Table Bluff Reservation looking at cultural fire and pretreatment influences on the reintroduction of six culturally important grassland species.

• Tribal Restoration
• Rangeland Restoration

Wayne received a B.A. in Environmental Studies in 1998 from UCSB and has worked in habitat restoration at the Cheadle Center since that time, specializing in habitat restoration, native plant propagation, local ecotypes, rare plants, endangered species recovery, and more. For the last 8 years he has been leading efforts on habitat improvements for and conservation of burrowing owls in the area.

• Habitat Restoration
• Wildlife Conservation
• Native Plants

Jim joined All Hands Ecology in January of 2021, bringing his local expertise and familiarity with the area from growing up on a sixth-generation family ranch near Tomales. Jim manages the physical operations and land stewardship at Cypress Grove Preserve and All Hands Ecology’s Tomales Bay properties. Previously, Jim was the Stewardship Manager for the Marin Agricultural Land Trust where he spent eight years supporting conservation and stewardship on working farms and ranches across Marin. Jim also played an active role in establishing strategic partnerships to incentivize stream habitat restoration and carbon farm plans throughout West Marin. He holds a bachelor’s degree in forestry and natural resources with a minor in rangeland resources management from California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo. He is an Associate Rangeland Manager with the Cal-Pac Society for Range Management, is a Fibershed producer member, and serves on the MALT Board. When Jim is not at the office or in the field, he can be found spending time with his family, tending a flock of sheep, stewarding, and working on the family ranch.

• Land Stewardship
• Stream Habitat Restoration

Julia Michaels completed her PhD in Ecology at UC Davis where she focused her research on strategies for restoring native CA vernal pool wetlands. Prior to joining Hedgerow Farms, Julia taught at Sacramento State and in the Biology Department at Reed College. Julia loves working at Hedgerow Farms because it is her favorite way to connect with the public about the fascinating world of native plants, and to recruit individuals to help us restore native ecosystems one project at a time.

• Rangeland Restoration

Joshua Scoggin is a production and collections data manager with NativeSeed Group, supporting Hedgerow Farms’ native seed production and wildland collections. Hedgerow Farms supplies native seed for large-scale conservation and habitat restoration. His work focuses on managing production and collection data so that restoration teams receive genetically appropriate and source-identified seeds matched to project needs.

• Seed Supply & Logistics
• Production & Collections Data
• Restoration Project Support

Marcela Resultay-Tayaba is a member of the Shingle Springs Band of Miwok Indians and serves as the Habitat Restoration Specialist for her tribe. Marcela obtained a bachelor’s degree in environmental sciences with an emphasis on Ecological Restoration as well as minors in Forestry and Natural Resources from Cal Poly Humboldt. Since graduating she has returned to work for her tribe’s Environmental Department and has dedicated her efforts to the revitalization of her ancestral language and traditional food practices. She hopes to inspire tribal youth and others to connect and honor nature through traditional practices and bringing tribal community together for cultural burning, and land/water conservation. Marcela’s main role is to oversee the implementation of restoration projects lead by state, federal, and private agencies. She is also responsible for grant management, overseeing the tribal community garden and managing various Clean Water Act projects on tribal land. It is important to her that every project incorporates culture, revitalizes traditional practices, provides education to the public, and provides Native youth the opportunity to learn and take ownership and pride in restoring our lands.

• Tribal Restoration
• Nursery Operations
• Land and Water Conservation
• Interagency Projects