Angela Edwards, Ph.D.

Field Lead, Senior Biologist II for POWER Engineers, Inc.:

Greenlink West Transmission Line (Nov. 2024 - Sept. 2025, Las Vegas to Beatty, NV)

• Crew lead for clearance surveys: Desert Tortoise (DETO), Burrowing Owl (BUOW)
• Solo nesting bird (NB) surveys, including BUOW surveys
• Construction monitoring lead for teams of 25-45 biologists daily

Biological Monitor for Playa Environmental:

Escape Solar (July - Nov. 2024, Mesquite, NV).

• Monitor fence construction and environmental compliance.
• Mojave DETO clearance survey crew lead

Eagle Shadow Mountain Solar (Oct. - Nov. 2024, Moapa, NV).

• Health Assessments, translocation, and transmitter replacement of Mojave DETO.
• Radio-telemetry tracking of 43 tortoises after translocation.

Silver Star Solar (Sept. - Oct. 2024, Amargosa Valley, NV).

• Mojave DETO presence/absence survey crew lead.
  

Biological Monitor for Caskey Biological Consulting:

Monitored environmental compliance for SoCal Gas pipeline projects including wildlife EMMs for DETO, NB, Crotch's bumblebee, and

• PSEP P2A Hydrotest L4000 (July - Sept. 2024, Hesperia, CA).
• PSEP P2P Hydrotest L235 (Aug. 2024, Newberry Springs, CA).
• L235 P1 ILI Newberry to Victorville (Sept. - Oct. 2024, Newberry Springs, CA).

Biologist for Walsh Energy Consulting:

Tortoise 2 - Reid Gardner transmission line (Apr. - May 2024, Moapa, NV).

• Pre-construction DETO and BUOW clearance surveys in front of disturbance.
• NB and post-construction disturbance surveys.
• Monitored for DETO, NB, and cacti/yucca EMM compliance during construction.

Biological Monitor for SWCA Environmental Consultants:

• Mojave DETO and BUOW clearance surveys at Silver State Solar Power Plant (Apr. - May 2024, Primm, NV).
• Mojave DT, BUOW, and atomic tarantula presence/absence surveys at Rock Valley Energy Center (May 2024, Amargosa Valley, NV).

Oberon, Arica, and Victory Pass Solar projects in Desert Center, CA (Apr. 2022 - Sept. 2023):

• Pre-construction clearance surveys for Mojave DETO, desert kit fox (DKF), BUOW, and cacti.
• NB surveys and cacti translocation.
• Mojave DETO fence installation monitoring.
• Biological compliance monitoring during construction for Mojave DETO, DKF, BUOW, NB, and Mojave fringe-toed lizard for Oberon, Victory Pass, and Arica solar projects.

SCE Vegetation Management program (Sept. 2023 - Aug. 2024).

• On-call Senior Wildlife Biologist
• Conducted NB, rare plant, CA red-legged frog surveys and monitoring, and waters monitoring in both urban environments and remote parts of the national forest wildernesses (Los Padres, Angeles, San Bernardino) across Southern California.
• NB surveys for fuel break clearance sites (June 2024, Big Sur, CA).

Biologist for Walsh Energy Consulting:

Crystal - Harry Allen transmission line (Sept. 2023 - Nov. 2023, Moapa, NV)

• Pre-construction Mojave DETO and BUOW surveys during vegetation grubbing of site.
• Compliance monitoring for DETO, BUOW, and cacti/yucca.
• Mojave DETO tracking of known individuals with radio-telemetry.

Biological Monitor for MacMurtrie Environmental Consulting LLC:

Yellow Pine Solar 1 and 2 (May 2021 - June 2021, Pahrump, NV)

• Extensive burrow and caliche den excavation.
• Construction of temporary pens for found tortoises.

Biologist, Biological Monitor for NewFields: (Oct. 2013 - May 2021)

Presence/Absence surveys (protocol) for Mojave DETO:

• Rough Hat Solar (May 2021, Pahrump, NV).
• Copper Rays Solar (May 2021, Pahrump, NV).
• Gemini Solar (Apr. 2021, Moapa, NV).
• Battle Born Solar (Apr. 2020, Moapa, NV).
• Paiute Solar (May 2014, Moapa, NV).
• DCP Tortoise Research Project (May 2014, Las Vegas, NV).
• Copper Mountain 3 Solar (Oct. 2013, Las Vegas, NV).

Clearance surveys (protocol) for Mojave DETO, including temporary and permanent transmitter attachment, radio-telemetry tracking, burrow excavation, and translocation of tortoises:

• Southern Bighorn 1 and 2 (Apr. 2021, Moapa, NV).
• Copper Mountain V (Apr. 2021, Las Vegas, NV).
• Eagle Shadow Mountain Solar (Apr. 2019, Moapa, NV).

Cacti/yucca and botany belt transect surveys.

• Gemini Solar (Apr. 2021, Moapa, NV).
• Eagle Shadow Mountain Solar (Apr. 2019, Moapa, NV).