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MARY ANNE FLETT P.O. Box 1410, Point Reyes Station, CA 94956 (415)250-0061 maryanne.flett @gmail.com I am a wildlife ecologist with over 25 years of experience conducting wildlife surveys, monitoring, and research as well as multidisciplinary inventories and habitat assessments (plants, reptiles, amphibians). Past projects vary in size from focused special status species studies and surveys in small areas to regional and statewide surveys. I conduct transects, point counts and spot mapping for passerine birds, owls, raptors, waterfowl, and shorebirds, and routinely conduct landbird nest searches. I have participated in numerous surveys for California clapper rails, black rails, willow flycatchers, spotted and burrowing owls, and other species of special concern. EMPLOYMENT HISTORY Self-employed Biological Consultant, Point Reyes Station, CA. February 1992 - present. Representative clients include: Avocet Research Associates Jules Evens, principal Survey for and monitor California black and clapper rails for the San Francisco Estuary Invasive Spartina Project, Bay-wide Clapper Rail Surveys (conducted in association with Point Reyes Bird Observatory for the California Department of Fish and Game). Count water and shorebirds in wetland restoration sites. Conduct preconstruction bird surveys and monitoring for private-sector projects. Recent projects include: Giacomini Wetlands restoration in Point Reyes National Seashore, realignment of Peyton Slough in Contra Costa County, oil and gas pipeline construction and repair in marshes in Contra Costa, Solano, Yolo, and San Francisco Counties, and annual surveys for nesting California least tern, snowy plover, and burrowing owls (and monitor and maintain artificial nests for burrowing owls) in the Montezuma Wetlands Restoration project in Solano County, CA. Record and map locations of special status bird species at all project sites. Marin Audubon Society Barbara Salzman, project manager Conducted clapper and black rail surveys and pre-construction monitoring in 600- acre wetland restoration project at Bahia, Novato, CA throughout summer and fall, 2008. Currently monitoring birds at Petaluma River wetlands restoration site.