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| Name |
Chester Vance Ogan |
| Gender |
Male |
| Person ID |
I54111 |
Bob Juch's Tree |
| Last Modified |
31 Dec 2022 |
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| Notes |
- Chet Ogan is a Biological Technician in wildlife research at Redwood Sciences Laboratory in Arcata. Specific duties include maintaining the fisher and marten database for the Forest Service's Pacific Southwest Region and has coauthored a couple of papers with Dr. William Zielinski on fisher and marten distribution in California. Graduating in 1965 from high school in Taft, CA, Chet received his A.A. Degree from Santa Barbara City College in 1967 and graduated from Humboldt State University in December 1969 with a BA degree in Biology -botany option and many courses in geology. Chet has worked for the Forest Service since 1970, where he began in trail maintenance on Los Padres National Forest . He worked 4 years in fire control as a hotshot crewman and foreman, fire truck crewman, and engine driver on the Angeles National Forest. In 1974 Chet transferred to Pacific Southwest Research Station at San Dimas where he worked as a Hydrologic Technician, maintaining a system of rain gauges and stream wiers on the Hillslope and Erosion Project until 1977. He also worked on the Prescribed Burning Project which developed protocols for prescribed burning operations . After a 4 year stint with the US Army from 1977 to 1981 Chet transferred to Redwood Sciences Lab in Arcata as a forestry technician with the Silviculture Project. In 1982 Chet was reassigned to the Wildlife Research Project. Chet's experience here has included bird banding, small mammal and carnivore trapping, track plate work; bird censuses and forest passerine bird activity budgets; forest amphibian pitfall trapping, stream searches, and time-constraint and area searches. In 1987 Chet began work with the spotted owl project, primarily dissecting owl pellets, but also spent a year with telemetry of both owls and their primary prey item, woodrats. Chet's analysis of spotted owl pellets from northern California and southern Oregon forests and has contributed to several publications on prey use by spotted owls as it relates to home range size. Chet's volunteer activities include running a USFWS Breeding Bird Survey route since 1988. From 1998 -2000 Chet was on the Board of Directors for California North Coast Chapter of The Wildlife Society, and served on the Redwood Region Audubon Society Board of Directors for 10 years from 1984 to 1994, serving as Program chairperson and Publicity chairperson, and as chapter President from 2000-2002, and is active in the Conservation Committee. Chet served on the Arcata Marsh and Wildlife Sanctuary and Streams Committee from 1985 to 1993. From 1993 to 1995 Chet served on the Washington Elementary School Site Council in Eureka where his two children, born in 1982 and 1984, attended elementary school. Chet is an Eagle Scout and has been active with Boy Scouts locally since 1992. Chet served 4 years active duty with the U.S. Army as a Biological Sciences Assistant at Walter Reed Army Institute of Research in Washington, D.C. where he worked as an electron microscope technician working with tropical blood parasites and is a platoon sergeant with the 579th Engineer Battalion in Eureka. Chet's 20 years with the National Guard and Army has allowed him to travel to Bangladesh, Honduras, Panama, and Germany. He has been activated for local forest fire, flood, earthquake disaster relief. Chet's hobbies include photography, skiing, scuba diving, rock climbing, and backpacking, where he can always be seen with his binoculars, spotting scope, and bird identification guide, looking for rare birds. Evenings not spent in meetings will find Chet on Internet researching his family genealogy which he has traced back to the Middle Ages.
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