Stu Tuttle
Owner/ Manager/ Biologist
Experience:
- 3 years consulting business contracting with Tribes, Other Consultants, Federal and State Governments and Universities.
- 30 year career with the USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service as a wildlife biologist and conservation planner for private landowners
- 2 years teaching high school and adult Vocational Agriculture
- >50 years raising livestock and hay
Education:
- Masters Degree in Biology: Northern Arizona University
- Bachelors Degree in Vocational Agriculture: Colorado State University
- Associates in Applied Agriculture: Northeastern Jr College
Consulting Work
Federal: USDA NRCS
- AZ: planning, design, and training for multiple field offices and personnel on riparian restoration and upland wildlife habitat management
- NM: Coordination with NM state biologist on riparian conservation plans, environmental compliance, and Endangered Species Act
- NV: federal contract to train state biologists and field staff on biological planning and conduct spring development inventory and design
State:
- AZ Game and Fish Department
- Inventory, planning, and design of Riparian restoration on private lands
- Training new Specialists for the Landowner Incentive Program
- New Mexico Association of Conservation Districts
- Inspect proposed projects for compliance with the Endangered Species Act through New Mexico
- Design fish passage for irrigation headgate structure replacement on Mimbres River
- Conduct Chiricahua Leopard Frog Surveys
- Assist NM Game and Fish Department on Chihuahua Chub surveys
Tribal:
- Yavapai Apache Tribe:
- Biological Assessment for Hot Asphalt Plant
- Conservation plan for riparian restoration along Josephine Wash
- CRIT: Conservation plan for riparian restoration along the Colorado River
- Riparian site evaluation and planning guidance to San Carlos Apache Tribe
University
- Training to NAU field crew on surveying methods and fluvial geomorphology descriptions of stream channels for the New Mexico Meadow Jumping Mouse study
- Guidance and product editing of NAU-based team developing multi-species habitat evaluation models.
- Project development and coordination of UofA study on grazing effects on riparian systems and Southwestern willow flycatcher habitat.
- Peregrine falcon monitoring San Juan River
Inventory
Inventory and effects determination of rehabilitating springs for livestock and wildlife water.
Agriculture
Determining effects of proposed agricultural practices on Northern New Mexican garter snakes
Evaluations
Evaluating effects to wetland habitats from proposed ditch replacement in northern NM
Endangered
An endangered Chihuahua chub captured from Mimbres River in NM
Water Flow
Evaluating effects on adjacent river from replacing a concrete ditch with an underground pipeline
Irrigation
Determining effects of proposed land leveling and irrigation pipeline on adjacent wildlife habitat next to Gila River in NM