Experience

Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes

• Government Administration
• 200 - 300 Employee

• Wildlife Biologist

  • Mar 2014 - Present

  My duties as a biologist have included the collection and interpretation of data and composing reports. Coordinating with supervisors and assisting in managing a small field crew in planting, fence maintenance and other activities are also under the duty requirements. Assists in organizing, promoting, and engaging community-wide events such as the bi-annual Bird and Bears festival.Various song, waterfowl and land bird surveys are conducted and contributed to long running databases. Current research interests include resource selection of large carnivores and human wildlife conflict.

• Wildlife Biologist Trainee

  • Jul 2008 - Mar 2014

  Collection and interpretation of data from sand bed track surveys and wildlife crossing structure camera monitoring along highway 93, assisting with both aerial and ground surveys of local waterfowl and bald eagles, assisting in hunter check stations, community outreach and education, as well as habitat restoration efforts on Tribal Kerr Mitigation/Wildlife properties. Some experience in population estimates through Western Fencing Lizard capture/marking method as well as big game population counts/data interpretation. Three years experience in habitat restoration, including the planting of shrubs and plugs using various plant protection methods, as well as controlling noxious weed infestations of hound's-tongue, burdock, teasel, Canadian thistle, bull thistle, ext. through seed clipping and weed pesticide spraying. In the spring of 2013 Kari was awarded a grant through Five Valleys Audobon Society, funding the establishment of a Barn Owl survey protocol for the Mission Valley and conducted a dietary analysis on the species while coordinating with land owners and wildlife managers.