Profession or Area of Expertise
Conservation Biologist
Personal Statement
Allison Jones received her B.A in Environmental Studies at the University
of California at Santa Cruz under the guidance of her mentor and advisor,
Michael Soule. She then completed her M.S in Conservation Biology at the
University of Nevada, Reno in 1996. Her Masters study analyzed the effects
of cattle grazing on small mammal communities in the Great Basin. During
this time she also starting working on a meta-analysis of grazing effects
in upland areas, in which she lumped and reanalyzed the results of 196
different sets of grazed/ungrazed comparisons. This analysis was completed
in 1998. Allison has worked as an ecological consultant in both Colorado
and Utah as an endangered species specialist, where she performed habitat
assessments and surveys for federally threatened birds, small mammals and
plants. Allison is now working as the staff conservation biologist for the
Wild Utah Project, which is the Utah affiliate of The Wildlands Project.
In addition to collecting and assembling biological data to be used in
reserve design for the Colorado Plateau and other parts of Utah, Allison
also provides biological analyses for Utah conservation groups that do not
typically have their own biologists. Examples include detailed
"conservation biology analyses" of proposed federal land
management agency plans and actions. She is also currently the P.I. on two
separate grazing-related studies based in southern Utah.
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