Dallin Saurey
Address: **** *. **** *. *******, ID 83440
Home: 208-***-****, Cell: 208-***-****
Email: **********@*****.***
Date of Birth: September 4, 1984
Personal
I am interested in technician type positions. My strengths include hard working, dependable, honest, and complete tasks in an efficiently and a timely manner. I am very good at doing wildlife surveys, working with and identifying plants, learning new techniques quickly, and doing what is required of me. I am especially good at collecting field data. I am willing to work hard and be the best I can be at whatever is asked of me.
Education
Brigham Young University – Idaho
2006-2010
Major: Recreation Management
Emphases: Natural Resources, Organizational Communications
BS Recreation Management December 19, 2010
Madison High School
1999-2003
Professional Experience
• Bureau of Reclamation- Socorro, New Mexico- May to July 2011 Performed Southwestern Willow Flycatcher and Yellow-Billed Cuckoo Presence/absence Surveys and assisted with collection of hydrology data.
• Worked for Department of Wildlife Resources in Salt Lake City Region office performed pellet surveys for elk, deer, cow, cottontail rabbit, jackrabbit and sage grouse. Also measured badger burrows, prairie dog and small mammal burrows. I also assisted with bird surveys. May to July 2010.
• Interned 569 hours at Salt Plains National Wildlife Refuge performing shore bird surveys,
monitoring wood ducks and eastern blue birds, and banding doves. In addition, I cleaned
campgrounds, chopped thistles, helped in painting the shop, and washed vehicles. I also organized kids programs and worked at the visitor’s center. April to July 2009.
Volunteer
• Fish and Wildlife Service-Performed Marsh Bird Survey May 2011.
• Idaho Fish and Game-planted Bitterroot brush on Tex Creek Wildlife Management Area April 2011.
• Santa Cruz Working Group- monitor and Nest search for peregrine falcon Apirl 2011.
• Idaho Fish and Game-putting screens on raceways and did yard work at Ashton Fish Hatchery April 2011.
• Idaho Fish and Game- Stacking hay at Market Lake Wildlife Management area April 2011.
• Nature Abounds performed Environmental Assessment with climate, birds mammals plants, and trees at Warm Springs Wildlife Management Area April 2011.
• University Illinois Chicago performed Squirrel Survey March 2011.
• Hawk Migration Association of North America performed Raptor Migration Surveys March 2011.
• Idaho Fish and Game Performed spawning for hybrids March 2011.
• US Forest Service, Dubois Ranger District called Grand Targhee National Forest performed surveys for boreal, great gray, flammulated and great horned. March 2011.
• Idaho Fish and Game Spawning Yellowstone Cutthroat Trout at Henrys Lake March 2011.
• Idaho Fish and Game Spawning Yellowstone Cutthroat Trout at Henrys Lake March 2011.
• Idaho Fish and Game Spawning Yellowstone Cutthroat Trout at Henrys Lake March 2011.
• Idaho Fish and Game Spawning Yellowstone Cutthroat Trout at Henrys lake March 2011.
• American Bird Conservancy performed Endangered and Threatened bird survey Feb 2011.
• Idaho Fish and Game performed Aging, and weighing Rainbow Trout Jan 2011.
• Army Corps of Engineer performed midwinter bald eagle and golden eagle survey December 2010.
• Audubon Society performed Christmas Bird Count in Rexburg Idaho December 2010.
• Cornell Labs performed House finch Disease Survey December 2010.
• Cornell Labs Performed project bird feeder survey December 2010.
• Wildlife and Ecology Techniques class performed molecular DNA test on cow’s blood December 2010.
• Wildlife and Ecology Techniques class performed search for radio collars with radio telemetry December 2010.
• Wildlife and Ecology Techniques class performed search for radio collars with radio telemetry Nov 2010.
• Camas National Wildlife Refuge performed plant restoration planted serviceberry, elderberry, and hawthorn bushes October 2010.
• Wildlife and Ecology Techniques class performed fecal colform and biochemical oxygen demand water sample October 2010.
• Idaho Fish and Game performed took fence down for year at Sand creek WMA October 2010.
• Wildlife and Ecology techniques class performed water sampling October 2010.
• Wildlife and Ecology techniques class for Byu-Idaho performed measure sage brush, and bitterroot September 2010.
• Volunteered for Idaho Fish and Game perform fencing at Heise area carrying fence poles September 2010.
• Volunteered for Idaho Fish and Game perform banding ducks, avian influenza samplings at Mud Lake September 2010.
• Volunteered for Idaho Fish and Game perform banding ducks, avian influenza samplings at Mud Lake September 2010.
• Volunteered for National Wildlife Federation performed wildlife watch for bird’s mammals, trees, shrubs, flowers, reptiles, and amphibians Aug 2010.
• Volunteered for National Elk Refuge performed plant samplings and forage samplings July to August 2010.
• Volunteered for Idaho Fish and Game performed banded ducks at Mud Lake August 2010.
• Volunteered for Manomet Center for Conservation Sciences performed international shore bird survey Aug 2010.
• Volunteered for Center for Conservation Biology performed Night Jar Survey August 2010.
• Volunteered for US Geological Survey performed breeding bird survey August 2010.
• Volunteered for Idaho Fish and Game perform fencing project at Foster property in Heise August 2010.
• Volunteered for Cornell Labs performed warbler migration survey August 2010.
• Volunteered for US Geological Survey performed swan band searches and neckbands at Harriman state park July 2010.
• Volunteered for Trumpeter Swan Society performed Swan Survey at Harriman State park July 2010.
• Volunteered for Idaho Fish and Game performed creel survey for Yellowstone cutthroat, kokanee salmon, smallmouth bass, yellow perch, rainbow trout, suckers, and chubs at Ririe Reservoir July 2010.
• Volunteered for Cornell Labs performed bird survey abundance, distribution, and diversity July 2010.
• Volunteered for Cornell Labs: performed bird survey in various habitats, such as sagebrush, juniper, cottonwood, mixed conifer, and riparian areas July 2010.
• Volunteered for Idaho Department of Fish and Game supervising youth fishing program May 2010.
• Volunteered for Teton Regional Land Trust: planted dogwood, aspen, rosewood, wild birch, hawthorn, golden currant, and willows at Fox creek area restoration project May 2010.
• Volunteered for Cornell Labs: performed pigeon courtship survey May, 2010.
• Volunteered for Cornell Labs: perform urban bird surveys at Nature Park May 2010.
• Volunteered for Teton Regional Land Trust planted choke cherry, cottonwood, and aspen in riparian habitat in Fox creek area May 2010.
• Volunteered Idaho Department Fish and Game planted bitterroot Brush BLM land in Idaho Falls April 2010.
• Volunteered for Idaho Fish and Game planted bitter brush at Rainbow ranch April 2010.
• Volunteered for Idaho Department of Fish and Game cut willows at Market Lake Apr 2010.
• Volunteered for US Forest Service, Dubois Ranger District called Grand Targhee National Forest performed surveys for boreal, great gray, flammulated and great horned. April 2010.
• Volunteered for Cornell Bird Lab surveyed for the Great Backyard Bird Count. February 2010.
Participated two consecutive years in the Audubon society Christmas Bird Count in Rexburg, ID. Winter of 2009 and 2010.
• Assisted Idaho Department of Fish and Game count area personnel by radio collaring mule deer near Dubois, ID. December 2009.
• Secretary for the BYU-Idaho Student Chapter of the Wildlife Management Society. 2009.
• Volunteered for Idaho Department of Fish and Game. Planted shrubs on big game winter range in Mud Lake. October 2009.
• Volunteered for Idaho Fish and Game working at the big game check station. October 2009.
• Volunteered for Idaho Fish and Game banding ducks at Mud Lake Wildlife Management Area. September 2009.
• Volunteered for Idaho Fish and Game collecting choke cherry seeds at Sand Creek, ID Wildlife Management Area. August 2009.
• Volunteered 144 hours at Camas National Wildlife Refuge participating in elk and sage grouse surveys, as well as mapping water structures and invasive weeds using GIS and GPS. July to August 2009.
• Volunteered 150 hours at Benchley Retirement Home reading books to an elderly gentleman named Dean Call. October 2008 to January 2009.
• Volunteered at the BLM National Public Day by cleaning up camp grounds. October 2008.
• Volunteered 400 hours for the Relay-For-Life kids’ camp. December 2007 to July 2008.
• Employed 40 hours/week by Saurey Construction, where my responsibilities were forming and finishing concrete, as well as building foundations and pouring footings. May 2002 to September 2008.
Skills
• First Aid Certified
• GPS and GIS
• Monitoring shorebirds, ducks, and songbirds
• Driving a four-wheeler and a Polaris Ranger
• Handy Man (painting, large and small scale construction, trap building)
• Kayak skills.
• Mountaineering
• Leave-No-Trace
• Survival skills
• Canoeing
• Cross country skiing
• Snow-shoeing
• Wilderness First Aid
Awards
• Permitted to Conduct endangered southwestern willow flycatcher surveys May 2011.
• Jared Scott Outdoor T.V show Spawning Fish at Henrys Lake March 2011.
• Bachelors of Science in recreation management December 2010.
• Intern-of-Year 2009 received March 2010 for Recreation Management Department at BYU-Idaho
• $1250 Internship Scholarship from Salt Plains National Wildlife Refuge
• Idaho B Promise Scholarship 2006
• Served a mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints 2005
• Fourth place in State of Idaho for shot put 2003
• McDonalds Player of Game for football in 2002 and 2003
• Eagle Scout Award 2002
• Dry back Award 1999 from Boy Scouts of America at Salmon River.
Interests
Hunting, Fishing, Birding, Collecting Butterflies, Backpacking, Hiking, Camping, Sports, Travel to Historic Sites
Work References
Ron Sheppard - Wildlife Biologist
Salt Plains National Wildlife Refuge
Home: 580-***-****
Greg Birkenfield - Manager
Salt Plains National Wildlife Refuge
Office: 580-***-****
Email: ***************@***.***
Brian Wehausen - Manager
Camas National Wildlife Refuge
Office: 208-***-****
Email: **************@***.***
Eric K. Cole- Wildlife Biologist
National Elk Refuge
Office: 307-***-**** Ext.7
Email:*********@***.***