Sam Lee Rapp

Partner Biologist, San Diego County

The Partner Biologist position empowers me to assist and plan conservation activities that enhance resiliency and biodiversity on working lands, thus increasing reciprocal benefits to humans and wildlife. I hope to increase engagement with historically underrepresented groups in conservation planning, to be a part of the Rangeland Monitoring Network to help improve future working lands management choices, and to preach the benefits of habitat restoration on working lands for humans and wildlife.

I graduated from the University of California, Santa Cruz with a degree in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology. Since then I have worked various wildlife and natural resource positions in the West. Most recently I worked as a conservation planner in the Flagstaff NRCS Field Office. Prior to that I monitored Least Bell’s Vireo and other endangered birds in San Diego County through USGS. I got my start with Point Blue at the Palomarin Field Station in Point Reyes where I learned to band birds and served on Point Blue’s Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Committee. Growing up in the Bay Area and exploring the state in my personal time and through work has deepened my commitment to conservation in California.

In my free time, I enjoy traveling, playing basketball, gardening and eating good food with friends and family.

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