Experience

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  Dennis Herlocker

  • Seattle, Washington, United States

  • Author of the book Buffaloes by my Bedroom: Tales of Tanganyika and the blog Stories of East Africa

    • 2000 - Present
    • Seattle, Washington, United States

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  Hunting Technical Services Development Ltd, U.K.

  • Tanzania

  • Consultant Range Management Specialist

    • 1999 - 2000
    • Tanzania

    Sustainable Management of Usangu Wetlands and its Catchment Project, funded by DFID. Surveyed forage quality, current use by livestock, rangeland degradation, vegetational changes over time, and livestock carrying capacity. A short term contract, this was my last position before retirement.

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  International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN)

  • Utete, Tanzania

  • Consultant Woodland Ecologist

    • 1999 - 1999
    • Utete, Tanzania

    Developed a strategy for the survey and monitoring of the woody vegetation of the delta and floodplain of the lower Rufiji River.

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  International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN)

  • Nairobi, Kenya

  • Consultant Rangeland Ecologist

    • 1997 - 1997
    • Nairobi, Kenya

    Helped prepare a literature review of the status of renewable resources of Somalia and a strategic framework for their management.

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  German Technical Cooperation (GTZ-PAS)

  • Nairobi, Kenya

  • Consultant Rangeland Ecologist

    • 1997 - 1997
    • Nairobi, Kenya

    Initiated arrangements for preparing a textbook, Rangeland Ecology and Resource Development in Eastern Africa.

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  Stiefel Resource Management Consulting

  • Consultant

    • 1996 - 1996

    Reviewed proposed Guidelines on Development Cooperation and Biodiversity prepared by SRM Consulting for Swiss Development Cooperation.

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  Belgium Water Development Programme

  • Nairobi, Kenya

  • Consultant

    • 1996 - 1996
    • Nairobi, Kenya

    Assisted in the preparation of Water Users' Guidelines for Watershed Management.

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  German Technical Cooperation (GTZ/GFA)

  • Nairobi, Kenya

  • Consultant

    • 1996 - 1996
    • Nairobi, Kenya

    Advised Samburu District Development Programme on technical interventions to improve rangeland productivity of sedentarized pastoralists.

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  German Technical Cooperation (GTZ)

  • Project Manager

    • 1991 - 1995

    Project Manager of the Kenya Range Management Handbook Project. Responsibilities included: (a) supervising preparation and publication of the Handbook (3 volumes, 22 parts); (b) supervising training in use of the Handbook for land use planning, range assessment, and monitoring; (c) establishing a range resource monitoring program, and (d) guiding development of a GIS environmental database for northern Kenya.

  • Range Ecologist

    • 1988 - 1991

    Eight short term consultancies for the Range Management Handbook of Kenya Project and one for the Water Resources Assessment and Planning Project (IAG), all with the same assignment: the inventory / assessment of rangeland resources in nine districts of northern Kenya (Marsabit, Samburu, Wajir, Mandera, Isiolo, Baringo, Elgeyo Marakwet, West Pokot, and Turkana).

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  The Louis Berger Group

  • United States
  • Civil Engineering
  • 700 & Above Employee

  • Consultant range ecologist

    • Apr 1989 - Apr 1989

    Prepared the technical component of a bid to carry out a Systems Investigation and Agro-pastoral Enclosure Program Preparation Study in central Somalia.

  • Consultant range ecologist

    • Feb 1989 - Mar 1989

    Prepared final report for the Range Survey and Development Component of Phase I of the Central Rangelands Development Project.

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  The Louis Berger Group

  • Mogadishu, Somalia

  • Range Ecologist

    • 1982 - 1988
    • Mogadishu, Somalia

    In Galgaduud Region of Central Somalia, carried out range inventory and monitoring, ecological studies, and the preparation of grazing management plans for pastoralist grazing associations.

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  UNESCO

  • Marsabit District, northern Kenya

  • Woodland Ecologist

    • 1977 - 1982
    • Marsabit District, northern Kenya

    Carried out vegetation mapping, forage productivity studies, and experimental tree planting trials for the Integrated Project on Arid Lands (IPAL)

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  Texas Agricultural Experiment Station

  • Field Coordinator

    • 1975 - 1976

    Coordinated studies of the potential for ecological reclamation of dredge spoil sites on the Bolivar Penninsula.

  • Woodland Ecologist

    • 1968 - 1975

    Field work for PhD thesis. Activities included (a) mapping woodland vegetation communities, (b) determining their composition and structure, (c) measuring growth rates of selected tree species, and (d) assessing the impact of fire and elephants.

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  Oregon State Tax Commission

  • Washington County, Oregon

  • Property Appraiser

    • Jun 1968 - Aug 1968
    • Washington County, Oregon

    Inventoried privately owned forests for purposes of property tax assessment

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  U.S. Peace Corps

  • Ngorongoro, Tanzania

  • Peace Corps Volunteer

    • 1964 - 1967
    • Ngorongoro, Tanzania

    Assistant Conservator (Forests), for the Ngorongoro Conservation Unit. Supervised a small tree nursery and tree plantation, prepared a map of the vegetation communities of the Ngorongoro Conservation Area, suppressed grass fires, assisted biologists in censusing wildlife and livestock and in capturing and marking wildlife for research studies.

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  Oregon State Tax Commision

  • Oregon

  • Property Appraiser

    • 1960 - 1963
    • Oregon

    Inventoried privately owned forests in Linn, Clackamas, and Washington counties in western Oregon for the purposes of property tax assessment.

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  Washington State Dept. of Forestry / U.S. Forest Service

  • Washington State

  • Crew member

    • 1955 - 1959
    • Washington State

    Summer positions with Washington State Department of Forestry and U.S. Forest Service. These included fire crew, trail crew and manning a forest fire lookout station.