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2021 TRBF Northern California Condor Restoration Program: Cultural and Ecological Revitalization in the Pacific Northwest

  • May 14, 2021
  • 6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
  • Live Zoom Webinar https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86416937889

Northern California Condor Restoration Program: Cultural and Ecological Revitalization in the Pacific Northwest

With Chris West and Tiana Williams-Claussen from the Yurok Tribe, Joseph Brandt, of USFWS and Kelli Walker from the Oregon Zoo Condor Recovery Program 

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Chris West and Tina Williams- Claussen will talk about California condor biology, decline, and efforts to recover the species from near- extinction. They will also discuss the significance of condors to the history and peoples of the Pacific Northwest. Finally, when we might see condors in Oregon, and what this work means for the overall recovery of this iconic species and the region. 

Kelli Walker will talk about the work being done at the Oregon Zoo Condor Recovery Program where she is the lead condor keeper. 

We invite you to screen the movie, The Condor's Shadow on Vimeo  for free between now and May 15th.

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Chris West

Chris completed his undergraduate work at the University of California, Santa Cruz.  He began working with California condors as an intern with the Ventana Wildlife Society in 1999. His passion for condors led him to his Masters research related to condor behavior at Humboldt State University, investigating how sociality, feeding environment, and rearing methods in captive breeding programs influence condor predation risk while feeding at carcasses after reintroduction. He began working for the Yurok Tribe, investigating the possibility of reintroducing condors to the Klamath Basin, in 2008. Chris is now the Yurok Tribe’s Condor Restoration Program Manager, heading up condor reintroduction efforts and overseeing community outreach.


Tiana Williams-Claussen

Tiana Williams-Claussen is a Yurok tribal member and native to the North Coast and the Yurok Reservation. She received her Bachelor’s degree in Biochemical Sciences from Harvard University, and has been employed by the Yurok Tribe for 13 years, starting out in an internship with the Tribe and moving to Technician, then Wildlife Biologist, and now acts as the Director of the Tribe’s Wildlife Department.  She was instrumental in the creation of the Yurok Tribe’s Condor Restoration Initiative and development of the Wildlife Department overall. Her native upbringing and formal education allows her to bridge the gap between traditional understandings of the world and those rooted in Western-science, and to work toward a cohesive, well-informed perspective on holistic ecosystem management.

Kelli Walker

Kelli graduated from Oregon State with a degree in Wildlife Science.  Her passion for conservation started as a volunteer at the Portland Audubon Care Center.  Kelli started working with condors in 2004 when the breeding program started at the Oregon Zoo offsite facility, Jonsson Center for Wildlife Conservation.   The center also housed a breeding and release program for the endangered pygmy rabbit.  Kelli is the senior condor keeper at the Johnson Center for Wildlife Conservation, Oregon zoo where she helps manage the second largest breeding population of condors.



Joseph Brandt 

Joseph is a graduate of the University of Oregon. He became enamored with the condors as a biologist with the Ventana Wildlife Society in Big Sur, California in 2006 where he documented the first condor nest in Monterey County in over 100 years. In 2007, he joined the Service as a condor biologist at the Hopper Mountain National Wildlife Refuge Complex and spent 10 years as the lead field biologist for Condor Recovery Program. Today he is a Senior Biologist at the Ventura Fish and Wildlife Office and works with many other endangered species including condors. 

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You are invited to a Zoom webinar.

When: May 14, 2021 06:30 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada)

Topic: 2021 TRBF California Condors

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