Hello, I am James Mason. I was a research technician II at the University
of Georgia Savannah River Ecology Laboratory(SREL). I worked on the SERDP
sandhills project for
Dr. Rebecca
Sharitz. The objective of the project is to evaluate "the effects of
forest management practices and military training activities on the Fall Line
sandhills community and the suite of threatened and endangered plant and animal
species (TES) that they contain." During my time at SREL, my primary duties
included participating in sampling of areas where targeted TES occur and other
areas with suitable habitat, taking inventories of population sizes, and identifying
the sandhill locations that appear to be optimal for expanding TES populations
through reintroductions.