After college, Taylor volunteered to teach geography for children in Ugandan for five years, in a Catholic mission school near Kampala.

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.

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.

[2] 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.

[4] Taylor retired in 1996 and continued nature protection activities in Asia, Africa, then on the island of Hawaii, mostly around the community of Volcano.