Conservation Biologist
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Steve Williams, Conservation Biologist with the RCD since 2001, was born in Santa Monica, CA. He attended San Francisco State University where he studied Geography with a focus in Natural Resource Management. Then he worked with the National Park Service (Golden Gate National Recreation Area, Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area and Channel Islands National Park) as plant biologist, wildland fire-fighter and park ranger.

Recently, he was the Project Manager for Upper Solstice Creek Restoration Phase 1. This provided planning, design and permits for the removal of a series of small dams and Arizona crossings. These structures would be barriers to steelhead trout migration once lower barriers are removed.

Steve secured funding for brush chipping for the Topanga Community to encourage wildland/urban interface fire safety. He is restoring native vegetation to an impacted park site. He conducts fieldwork for RCDSMM sensitive wildlife population studies (steelhead trout, tidewater gobys and western pond turtles).

He recently provided NPS with a Water Quality Monitoring Information Study, which compiled information about water quality sampling in three Southern CA Parks. Steve contributed sampling fieldwork and data charts to two Topanga Creek Water Quality Studies.