Daniel David Taylor (born May 23, 1938) is an American nature protection specialist. He was the head of the resources management department at

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from 1979–1996, and is known for his environmental activities in

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and

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Early life and education

Born in 1938 in

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, Taylor's family lived in

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before moving to

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in 1941 and

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in 1948. Taylor attended

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from 1956 to 1960 and the

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Career

After college, Taylor volunteered to teach geography for children in

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for five years, in a Catholic mission school near

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National Park Service

1968 he started to work in Yosemite National Park in the Resources Management Department where he was tasked with restoring natural conditions to the forest. A lack of fire over the previous 150 had limited the growth of trees due to excess undergrowth and presence of pests. He was involved in the development of a program for controlled, periodic burning that would not damage the mature trees. The fire program was used in other national parks and Taylor transferred to the

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to develop a fire program there. He worked with researcher Bruce M. Kilgore and they continued the burning research programs in other national parks such as Yosemite, Grand Canyon, North Cascades in Washington State, where he was in charge of the back country program. He then transferred to the Glaciers National Park. Taylor and his colleagues had to pay close attention to the condition of the fuel, so it would only burn materials such as dead wood, small trees, and grasses.

Hawaii

Don Reeser had transferred to Redwoods National Park, Dan Taylor succeeded him as Resources Management Division Chief in

in fall 1979. Taylor was put in charge of the natural resources management program, focusing on the problem of controlling feral pigs, goats and other wild cattle and invasive plants. He spent the next 28 years working in this program, hoping to remove the goats and pigs and helping to put back native plants which had practically disappeared from the system and also putting back some of the rare animals. He and Larry Katahira (Wildlife Specialist) developed new method of monitoring feral goats using radio-collared devices. They used it to track feral goats for purposes of removing remnant groups. He managed international research programs as part of the

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"Volunteers in a Park" program. Taylor retired in 1996 and continued nature protection activities in

, then on the

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, mostly around the community of

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Awards

* 1991: NPS Award for Natural Resource ManagementDirectors Award for Natural Resource Management: Daniel Taylor, Chief of Resources Management, Hawaii Volcanoes National Park // Highlights of Natural Resources Management. Vol. 991. U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service, 1991. P. 21.

Organizations

Member of several organizations: *

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* WWF

Bibliography

* ''Kilgore B. M., Taylor D. D.'' Fire history of a sequoia mixed conifer forest // Ecology. 1979. Vol. 60. P. 129–142. * ''Taylor D.'' Controlling exotic plants in Hawaii Volcanoes National Park // Proceedings, Third Conference in Natural Sciences, Hawaii Volcanoes National Park. Hawaii Field Research Center, 1980 P. 349-354. * ''Stone C. P., Taylor D. D.'' Status of feral pig management and research in Hawaii Volcanoes National Park // Cooperative National Park Resources Studies. University of Hawaii at Manoa, 1982. P. 106-117. * ''Stone C. P., Taylor D. D.'
Status of feral pig management and research in Hawaii Volcanoes National Park
// Smith C.W editor. Proceedings of the Fifth Conference in Natural Sciences Hawaii Volcanoes National Park: onolulu. June 5–7, 1984 University of Hawaii at Manoa. 1984. P. 106—117. * ''Taylor D., Stone C. P.'' Controlling feral pigs in Hawaii Volcanoes National Park // Conference of Scientific Research of National Parks. 1986. Vol. 4. P. 193. (abstract). * Taylor D., Katahira L. Radio telemetry as an aid in eradicating remnant feral goats // Wildl. Soc. Bull. 1988. Vol. 16. P. 297—299. * ''Taylor D.'' Managing the people's cave in Hawaii Volcanoes National Park // Geo. 1991. Vol. 19. N 1. P. 28. * ''Taylor D.'' Restoring endangered species in Hawaii Volcanoes National Park // Endangered species technical bulletin. 1994. Vol. 19. N 2. P. 18-19.

Literature

* ''Vtorov I. P.'' Feral pig removal: Effect on soil microarthropods in a Hawaiian rain forest //

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. 1993. Vol 57. N 4. P. 875—880
DOI:10.2307/3809092
* ''Второв И. П.'' Чужие среди своих // Зелёный мир: Еженедельная экологическая газета. 1992. № 9/10 (74). С. 13. * ''Vtorov I. P.'' Restoration of Soil Microarthropod Populations after Feral Pig Removal in a Hawaiian Rainforest Ecosystem // Pacific Science. Vol. 46, October 1992. P. 398—399. * ''Vtorov I. P.'' The effect of feral pigs on soil invertebrate complexes in a Hawaiian rain forest // Towards the Pacific century: The challenge of change: 17th Pacific Science Congress: onolulu. 27 May — 2 June 1991 Honolulu: PSC, 1991. P. 145.

References

External links

The Pig War
A small army of hunters struggles to control one of Hawaii's most destructive exotic pests. by Kenneth Brower, August, 1985.
Dan Taylor of Volcano, permanently protected three acres of land in the Royal Hawaiian Estates subdivision of Volcano
— Hawaiian Islands Land Trust, 2015.
Kipuka Mosaic Project
— Taylor, Volcano. The Hawaiian Islands Land Trust land conservancy organization. {{DEFAULTSORT:Taylor, Daniel 1938 births People from Hawaii American environmentalists National Park Service personnel San Francisco State University alumni University of California, Berkeley alumni American expatriates in Uganda People from Santa Fe, New Mexico People from Sonoma, California Living people