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Technical Writing:

• Final reports – See fish passage assessments for PDF’s of final reports.

• Habitat Conservation Planning (HCP).  Between 1994 and 1997, assisted Simpson Timber Company in drafting their aquatic HCP to address four species of anadromous salmonids.  Mr. Taylor participated in early stages of Simpson’s HCP, drafting sections regarding description of baseline habitat conditions, life-history profiles of target species, impact analyses of current management practices, and development of preliminary mitigations.

• Methodologies and protocols.  CDFG - Taylor and Associates was contracted by CDFG to draft standardized methods for evaluating fish passage at stream crossings with culverts.  Mr. Taylor served as the lead author for Part IX of the California Salmonid Stream Habitat Restoration Manua l(PDF Available). Fish, Farms, and Forest Communities Forum (FFFC) - contracted Ross Taylor and Associates to draft field protocols to be utilized by FFFC participants.  A Field Protocols Manual to provide standard methods for monitoring water temperature, spawning substrate, and habitat typing (1995); Long-term channel monitoring protocol (1997); Sections of a Hill-slope Processes Workbook and Checklist (1997); Large Woody Debris and Riparian Zone Inventory protocol (1997)  (PDF Available)

• Literature searches and reviews.  Simpson Timber Company – salmonid life histories, watershed processes, timber management impacts, and historic watershed and fisheries conditions in northern California.  Los Angeles Department of Water and Power­ – brown trout habitat requirements, carrying capacities (trout biomass) of eastern Sierra and northeastern California streams, and hydrologic conditions of streams downstream of lakes in the eastern Sierras.    

• Permit development - provided assistance to agencies and private entities in drafting fisheries sections of a variety of permits.  Five-Counties Program – ACE Regional General Permit-1; CDFG 1602; CEQA, and Water Quality 404-D.  Bryan A. Stirrat & Associates, Inc -  CEQA for Mendocino South-coast Landfill Closure plan.

• Meeting minutes.  Klamath Technical Work Group – contracted by USFWS to draft quarterly meeting minutes. 

• Symposium proceedings.  FFFC Forum – drafted and edited the proceedings of a two-day channel monitoring workshop.  (PDF Available)

• Grant writing.  Since 1997, Ross Taylor and Associates has written (or co-written) and submitted approximately 25 proposals to state and federal fisheries restoration programs.  Our success rate (proposals accepted and funded) is nearly 95%.

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