Services Offered
Ranch And Wildlife Site Visits & Consultations Including:
Status And Recommendations On
- Game Species
- White-tailed deer
- Upland game birds
- Non-game Species
- Habitat Management
- Supplemental Feeding
- Water Management
- Supplemental Feeding
- Water Management
- Prepare Wildlife Management Plan including one site visit and phone consultations
- 1-D-1 Wildlife Tax Conversions and Annual Report to CAD
- Wildlife Surveys or instructions and interpretations (aerial, spotlight, mobile, herd composition counts, turkey hen-poult counts, quail surveys, etc.)
- Herd Composition Assistance and Interpretation (Scouting, Blind and Camera Surveys)
- Harvest Recommendations
- Harvest Data Collection and Training (landowners, leases, etc.)
- Harvest Analysis
- TPWD Permits (MLDP, DMP, TTT, DBP, ADCP, etc.) and Required Annual Reports
- Supplemental shelter recommendations (nest boxes, owl boxes, bat boxes, purple martin houses, brush piles)
- Erosion control recommendations
- Livestock Management and Recommendations
- Deer Pen Inspections and Certification
- Ranch Mapping including one site visit (aerial, topo, soil, etc.)
Richar
d B. “Rick” Taylor is a Certified Wildlife Biologist with over 30 years of experience in natural resource management. A range and wildlife graduate of Texas A& I University (Texas A& M Kingsville), he worked as a senior staff biologist for Texas Parks and Wildlife Department for 27 years. During his tenure, he provided technical assistance to private landowners on over 1.5 million acres of Texas rangeland in the South Texas, Edwards Plateau, Post Oak Prairies, and Coastal Prairies ecological regions.
Rick is an expert in wildlife and rangeland ecology providing technical assistance in white-tailed deer and other game species management, game bird management, non-game wildlife management, livestock management, water management, and habitat management including mechanical, and prescribed burns. His technical guidance has won landowners the prestigious Lone Star Land Stewardship Award for the Edwards Plateau Ecological region in 2004, the South Texas Ecological region in 2006, and the Aldo Leopold Statewide Land Stewardship Award for 2012.
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