Klein-Edwards Professional Services
PO Box 16809
San Diego, CA 92176-6809
PO Box 16809
San Diego, CA 92176-6809
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Klein-Edwards Professional Services
Michael Klein, is co-founder and partner of Klein-Edwards Professional Services He was raised on the east coast and moved to San Diego in early 1974 while serving in the Navy. As a child he fell in love with butterflies and spent many days collecting and mounting them. Even in his time in the Navy he took time to watch butterflies on his tour of duties. It was not until his meeting Mr. Edwards that his childhood hobby became a vocation. In the past 18 years he has led walks and shared his passion for not only butterflies but also other insects.
He has been involved with consulting, education and interpretation for over 17 years. His strengths are insects with an emphasis in butterflies and pollinators and other insects. He has been intrigued with butterflies since early childhood. He provides a strong emphasis on invertebrate ecology both from native to introduced. Because of his public involvement with interpretation, he is knowledgeable about amphibians, reptiles, and mammals. He has a 10(a) permit with the U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service for the coastal California gnatcatcher (Polioptila californica californica), Quino checkerspot butterfly (Euphydryas editha quino) and Laguna Mountains skipper (Pyrgus ruralis lagunae), Southwestern Willow Flycatcher (Empidonax trallii trallii). He is considered one of the top biologists in performing Habitat Assessments for the Quino checkerspot butterfly as well as one of the best Quino biologists within the Region. His expertise has allowed him opportunities to teach wildlife biologists in the field on the life cycle and ecology of the Quino checkerspot butterfly. He has a special amendment to his 10(a) permit which authorizes him to survey for immature stages of both the Quino checkerspot butterfly and Laguna Mountains skipper. This amendment is on a case by case basis where the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service would direct work to be conducted.
He is also one of the foremost expects on the Hermes Copper butterfly, endemic to San Diego County. He has spent studying this butterfly annually since 1997. Recently he has been focusing mostly on habitat conditions for the butterfly's entire life cycle and looking at potential pollinators of the butterfly's only laval host plant, spiny redberry (Rhamnus crocea).
He has a California State Scientific Collecting permit as well as Flat-tailed Horned Lizard Qualified.
Besides permit work, Mr. Klein has done habitat assessments, impacts analysis, constraints analysis, vegetation mapping, and oak valuations. He has also been awarded a Section 6 grant to begin studies on two sensitive plants within the San Diego Region. Both of these plants are covered species within the Regional Multiple Species Conservation Plan (MSCP). In 2006 he was contracted to begin protocol work on eight endemic butterflies within the Spring Mountain Complex just northwest of Las Vegas. Companies worked for have been, Conservation Biology Institute, Natural Resource Consultants, Pacific Southwest Biological Services, Thomas Leslie Corporation, Tierra Madre Environmental, HDR, Essex Environmental, TAIC, Lincer and Associates, Bureau of Land Management, Border Patrol, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and New Fields (Las Vegas).
Recently he was hired by the San Diego County Water Authority to be an independent scientific reviewer for the Authority’s NCCP with an emphasis on the insects requested to be covered as well as the requested plants species’ associated pollinators. He has been hired by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to perform post-fire monitoring of occupied Quino checkerspot butterfly areas with in the San Vicente Reservoir and Otay Mountain complex.
Mr. Klein is the top regional experts for the Thorne’s Hairstreak Butterfly (Callophrys [gryneus] thornei), Wandering Skipper, and Harbison Dun Skipper. He has written articles for professional magazines about both butterflies and is regularly sought after by local jurisdictions about how to treat them related to projects which may impact them.
Mr. Klein was president of Nature Festivals of San Diego County, a non-profit organization promoting nature-based and ecotourism in the San Diego Region. From this organization he is co-founder of the San Diego Bird Festival. He is a docent instructor for the Back Country Land Trust, and Blue Sky Ecological Preserve. He teaches classes and leads walks for Blue Sky Ecological Preserve, County Parks, City Parks, Chula Vista Nature Center and the San Diego Natural History Museum. Through Nature Festivals, he teaches an annual sensitive butterfly workshop teaching regional biologists, resource managers and jurisdictional biologists.
Professional Associations:
Lepidopterists’ Society
Xerces Society
Entomology Department Associate at the San Diego Natural History Museum
He has been involved with consulting, education and interpretation for over 17 years. His strengths are insects with an emphasis in butterflies and pollinators and other insects. He has been intrigued with butterflies since early childhood. He provides a strong emphasis on invertebrate ecology both from native to introduced. Because of his public involvement with interpretation, he is knowledgeable about amphibians, reptiles, and mammals. He has a 10(a) permit with the U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service for the coastal California gnatcatcher (Polioptila californica californica), Quino checkerspot butterfly (Euphydryas editha quino) and Laguna Mountains skipper (Pyrgus ruralis lagunae), Southwestern Willow Flycatcher (Empidonax trallii trallii). He is considered one of the top biologists in performing Habitat Assessments for the Quino checkerspot butterfly as well as one of the best Quino biologists within the Region. His expertise has allowed him opportunities to teach wildlife biologists in the field on the life cycle and ecology of the Quino checkerspot butterfly. He has a special amendment to his 10(a) permit which authorizes him to survey for immature stages of both the Quino checkerspot butterfly and Laguna Mountains skipper. This amendment is on a case by case basis where the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service would direct work to be conducted.
He is also one of the foremost expects on the Hermes Copper butterfly, endemic to San Diego County. He has spent studying this butterfly annually since 1997. Recently he has been focusing mostly on habitat conditions for the butterfly's entire life cycle and looking at potential pollinators of the butterfly's only laval host plant, spiny redberry (Rhamnus crocea).
He has a California State Scientific Collecting permit as well as Flat-tailed Horned Lizard Qualified.
Besides permit work, Mr. Klein has done habitat assessments, impacts analysis, constraints analysis, vegetation mapping, and oak valuations. He has also been awarded a Section 6 grant to begin studies on two sensitive plants within the San Diego Region. Both of these plants are covered species within the Regional Multiple Species Conservation Plan (MSCP). In 2006 he was contracted to begin protocol work on eight endemic butterflies within the Spring Mountain Complex just northwest of Las Vegas. Companies worked for have been, Conservation Biology Institute, Natural Resource Consultants, Pacific Southwest Biological Services, Thomas Leslie Corporation, Tierra Madre Environmental, HDR, Essex Environmental, TAIC, Lincer and Associates, Bureau of Land Management, Border Patrol, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and New Fields (Las Vegas).
Recently he was hired by the San Diego County Water Authority to be an independent scientific reviewer for the Authority’s NCCP with an emphasis on the insects requested to be covered as well as the requested plants species’ associated pollinators. He has been hired by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to perform post-fire monitoring of occupied Quino checkerspot butterfly areas with in the San Vicente Reservoir and Otay Mountain complex.
Mr. Klein is the top regional experts for the Thorne’s Hairstreak Butterfly (Callophrys [gryneus] thornei), Wandering Skipper, and Harbison Dun Skipper. He has written articles for professional magazines about both butterflies and is regularly sought after by local jurisdictions about how to treat them related to projects which may impact them.
Mr. Klein was president of Nature Festivals of San Diego County, a non-profit organization promoting nature-based and ecotourism in the San Diego Region. From this organization he is co-founder of the San Diego Bird Festival. He is a docent instructor for the Back Country Land Trust, and Blue Sky Ecological Preserve. He teaches classes and leads walks for Blue Sky Ecological Preserve, County Parks, City Parks, Chula Vista Nature Center and the San Diego Natural History Museum. Through Nature Festivals, he teaches an annual sensitive butterfly workshop teaching regional biologists, resource managers and jurisdictional biologists.
Professional Associations:
Lepidopterists’ Society
Xerces Society
Entomology Department Associate at the San Diego Natural History Museum
About Us
Claude Edwards is co-founder and partner of Klein-Edwards Professional Services. He is a San Diego native with a lifelong passion for studying and enjoying nature and birds. For much of the past fifty years he has generously shared his knowledge and interests through numerous guided walks and field trips, educational classroom programs, lectures, and public presentations. He has also lent his expertise and experiences to training others about birds, native and exotic plants, and natural areas of San Diego.
Among his many accomplishments are performing several annual U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service sponsored Breeding Bird Surveys in San Diego and Imperial Counties, participating in several annual Christmas Bird Counts, Founding and coordinating the Lake Henshaw Christmas Bird Count for more than 34 years. He also spent 10 years helping with efforts to establish a small open space preserve in north San Diego County.
On occasion over the years, Mr. Edwards has availed himself as an expert birding guide to visitors coming to San Diego from other places. He has done his best to fulfill the goals and desires of numerous individuals and couples to see and enjoy the local bird species they were seeking. He has also added greatly to the overall enjoyments of everyone he has helped.
Mr. Edwards has been a professional plant and wildlife biologist as well as a working for several biological firms.
Along with his partner, Michael Klein, he has conducted and participated in focused surveys for a number of state and federal listed species, and is permitted by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to perform protocol surveys for the coastal California gnatcatcher. Recent fieldwork has consisted of presence-absence surveys for sensitive species on behalf of the San Dieguito River Conservancy and Back Country Land Trust.
Among his many accomplishments are performing several annual U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service sponsored Breeding Bird Surveys in San Diego and Imperial Counties, participating in several annual Christmas Bird Counts, Founding and coordinating the Lake Henshaw Christmas Bird Count for more than 34 years. He also spent 10 years helping with efforts to establish a small open space preserve in north San Diego County.
On occasion over the years, Mr. Edwards has availed himself as an expert birding guide to visitors coming to San Diego from other places. He has done his best to fulfill the goals and desires of numerous individuals and couples to see and enjoy the local bird species they were seeking. He has also added greatly to the overall enjoyments of everyone he has helped.
Mr. Edwards has been a professional plant and wildlife biologist as well as a working for several biological firms.
Along with his partner, Michael Klein, he has conducted and participated in focused surveys for a number of state and federal listed species, and is permitted by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to perform protocol surveys for the coastal California gnatcatcher. Recent fieldwork has consisted of presence-absence surveys for sensitive species on behalf of the San Dieguito River Conservancy and Back Country Land Trust.