Biographical Information about Joseph Lint

Joseph Lint is a wildlife biologist with the Oregon State Office of the Bureau of Land Management. He currently serves as the northern spotted owl module lead for the Effectiveness Monitoring Program under the Northwest Forest Plan.

Joe received his B.S. degree in forest management from West Virginia University and his M.S. degree in wildlife management from Virginia Tech. From 1974 to 1978, he was a wildlife biologist with the Coeur d'Alene District of the BLM in Idaho. In 1978, he transferred to the Roseburg District of the BLM in Oregon where he was the district biologist for over 12 years. In 1990, he assumed wildlife biologist duties in the Oregon State Office although he retained his duty station in Roseburg.

Joe has been involved with spotted owl conservation and management for the past 27 years. In addition to inventory and banding of owls in the early years, Joe has also been involved in several of the major federal conservation planning efforts. He was member of the Interagency Scientific Committee that drafted a conservation stategy for the northern spotted owl in 1990, and he was also a member of the Forest Ecosystem Management Assessment Team whose report was the basis for the Northwest Forest Plan. Since the adoption of the Forest Plan in 1994, Joe has been actively involved in the interpretation and implementation of the Plan working with issues ranging from threatened and endangered species to red tree voles to forest thinning.