Shauna Ginger
USFWS
Portland,
OR
USA
Biographical Sketch: SHAUNA GINGER is the Ecosystem Services Biologist with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in Portland, Oregon. She functions as the primary representative on policy issues, evaluation, planning, and technical assistance for ecosystems services markets projects in Oregon. On a broader scale, she serves as USFWS liaison to several regional and national multi-stakeholder ecosystems services forums. Shauna is currently focusing on pre-compliance conservation mechanisms and policy for non-listed species, such as the sage-grouse. Trained as a mammalogist and landscape ecologist, she spent the last decade working in the southeastern U.S. on recovery and conservation of imperiled terrestrial species in bottomland hardwood and longleaf pine ecosystems. She was responsible for the development and implementation of a regional conservation banking program for the federally listed gopher tortoise, and facilitated the integration of banking and other landowner conservation programs for regional-scale recovery efforts for the gopher tortoise and related longleaf pine species. Shauna has a M.S. in Wildlife Ecology from Oklahoma State University and a B.S. in Zoology Magna Cum Laude from the University of Arkansas (woo pig sooie!), her native state.
Papers:
213
The Role of Habitat Markets in Landscape-Scale Species Conservation: A USFWS Perspective