EXHIBIT 4-D

Names and Qualifications of Ventana Wilderness Society Avian Biologists

Personnel who will work on this year’s Carmel River Riparian Corridor Avian Habitat Monitoring Program include Sarah Stock, Jessica Griffiths, Nelli Thorngate, and Eric Miller. All individuals have worked with VWS for a minimum of 6 months spanning up to 3 years and have all received intensive training in MAPS (Monitoring Avian Productivity and Survivorship) protocol, mist-netting and banding passerines, conducting bird surveys (such as point counts, area searches, and line transects), and managing large databases. Of note, all individuals have participated in the most advanced workshop offered to avian field biologists who band birds. The workshop is called “Advanced Aging and Sexing of Passerines” taught by Institute for Bird Populations (I.B.P.) Biologist, and author of The Identification Guide to North American Birds, Part I, Peter Pyle. Since this field is ever-evolving, all personnel will again be attending this year’s workshop co-sponsored by VWS.

· Direct Supervisors – Sarah Stock (VWS Program Coordinator) and Jessica Griffiths (VWS Assistant Program Coordinator)

Sarah Stock and Jessica Griffiths will be overseeing all work pertaining to the Carmel River Riparian Corridor Avian Habitat Monitoring Program. In addition, Sarah and Jessica will be responsible for compiling, writing, and submitting both research reports. Sarah has worked for VWS for 3 years as the Big Sur Ornithology Lab’s Coordinator. Her undergraduate work culminated in a B.S. degree in 1996 from the Evergreen State College in Olympia, WA. She has over eight years of experience as a landbird biologist working with government and private organizations stationed in several locations including Idaho, Alaska, Hawaii, Louisiana, and the Marianas Islands. Sarah is a member of the California Partners in Flight Steering Committee and serves on the San Francisco Bay Bird Observatory Scientific Advisory Board. Jessica began working with VWS in December 2002, two years after graduating with a B.A. in Biology from Wellesley College in Wellesley, MA. She has worked for both government and private organizations in seven states from coast to coast, including New Hampshire, North Dakota, and Mississippi. She has over five years of experience in songbird research and monitoring. Jessica was the Crew Leader on the Carmel River avian monitoring program in 2003.

· Crew Leader – Nelli Thorngate

Nelli Thorngate received a B.S. degree in Wildlife Biology from Humboldt State University in 1999, and is currently conducting field research on songbird populations in Monterey pine forests, as part of her qualifications for an M.S. degree in Biology from San Jose State University. While at San Jose State, she was awarded two research scholarships for her thesis project. Nelli has a broad range of field experience, including surveying freshwater streams for invertebrates and herpetiles (a CALTRANS project on the Smith Creek in San Jose, Ca.) for 6 months in 2001-2002; acorn woodpecker nest monitoring (a long-term behavioral research project at UC Berkeley’s Hastings Natural History Reservation in upper Carmel Valley) in summer 2001; shorebird surveys on sandy beaches in Monterey County (a project run by the Point Reyes Bird Observatory) in 2002-2003; and assisting in operating a full-time banding station following MAPS protocols and performing area searches for VWS. In the six months that Nelli has been working with VWS she has banded over 650 birds, and was recently responsible for running two banding sites once per month for 4 months in 2003 – 2004, under the auspices of a NOAA grant awarded to the Carmel Middle School Biological Sciences Project.

· Contractor – Eric Miller

Eric Miller graduated from UCSC with a B.A. degree in Environmental Science from the University of California, Santa Cruz, CA in spring 2003. Eric worked for VWS from April 22, 2003 to October 22, 2003 as one of the biologists responsible for operating the constant-effort banding station at Andrew Molera State Park and a MAPS station at the Carmel River. Eric’s bird identification skills proved above average and as a result he was quickly promoted to “primary observer” for conducting area searches. In addition to daily field work, mist-netting and banding birds, and conducting routine surveys, Eric was responsible for working with the public, entering, proofing, and managing data on a daily basis. Eric has received above-average marks on routine evaluations conducted by VWS supervisors.

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