Biographical Information about Raymond Davis

Raymond Davis is a wildlife biologist from the Umpqua National Forest of the U.S. Forest Service. He currently is on detail to the Interagency Regional Monitoring Team, working with Joe Lint on the northern spotted owl module, and like Joe, his duty station is also Roseburg, Oregon. Ray started working for the Forest Service in 1989 as a wildlife co-op student on the Siuslaw National Forest, where one of his first jobs was… surveying for spotted owls. In 1991, he received his B.S. degree in Wildlife and Fisheries Sciences from New Mexico State University. From 1992 to 1995, he was the district wildlife biologist for the Siuslaw’s Waldport Ranger District on the Oregon coast. In 1995 he transferred to the Umpqua National Forest in the western Cascades of Oregon, where he worked as the North Umpqua Ranger District wildlife biologist for 9 years. In 2004, he began working on the Forest’s Planning team and for the Regional Office. Ray has been involved with spotted owl conservation and management over the past 15 years. In addition, he has participated in other regional efforts on marble murrelet surveys, wildlife habitat analyses and red tree voles. He has also produced maps of Mexican spotted owl habitat for the Lincoln National Forest in his native state of New Mexico.

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